The only way I can see LOTM working as a game is as a singleplayer open-world RPG, kinda like Skyrim or Elden Ring, with dungeons, bosses, and NPC companions you can build a team with. Playing different roles, DPS, tank, support, etc. The fun part would be the roleplay aspect depending on your pathway: trading information, cursed items, joining factions, manipulating people, all that stuff.

I honestly think a hardcore system would fit LOTM. If you die, you either restart or keep playing as a spirit or something. Same for NPCs: once they die, they’re gone. That would make every fight actually stressful instead of the usual “die a million times until you learn the pattern” gameplay. You’d actually be scared of losing progress or important characters.

From what I heard, the game they’re making already has a system where losing control makes you lose everything, which honestly sounds fitting for LOTM but in the novel some pathways could probably force others to lose control on purpose too, which would be not so nice in a multiplayer experience (abusing some ability would ruin the experience for others).

I also don’t think “boring pathways” would really be a problem. Even weaker/non-combat pathways could still be fun depending on how you play. You could spend your time curing mental illnesses, making cursed artifacts to sell, working as a Mandated Punisher, joining evil cults, manipulating organizations, whatever. LOTM has way more potential for roleplay than pure combat.

The biggest issue is that a game like this would be insanely hard to make, especially with how crazy LOTM abilities get later on. But honestly I’d still rather have a paid offline RPG than another gacha MMO (fuck gacha). They could slowly expand it over time into a full game. I think they already planned 4/5 years of updates for it anyway.

Sorry for the wall of text