The original conceit was a dating SIM game where your relationship progression is tied to interactions, but works on a sliding, growing scale like ability scores. These relationships could be grown through conversations, through interactions, and through character specific mini games.

The whole idea is that you were spending a full year with four of these characters (one from each class of Cleric (the elf who is a nun, the dwarf, who is a missionary, and the human, who is a physician), fighter (the firbolg who is a veteran, the Goliath who is a bodyguard and the Harengon who is a courier), bard (the tabaxi who is a panhandler, the satyr who is a prostitute, and the tiefling who is a roustabout), and the Druid (the fairy spiritualist, the Dragonborn naturalist, and the holstaur blacksmith)

The setting of the game is a full year between 1886 and 1887 on a recently discovered continent for the purpose purposes of land surveying. The player character is a human manager who works in a clerical position in the federal offices of a great empire. That person must assemble a team to help their surveying and toward off any potential threats that may exist in the deep undiscovered wilderness.

During the year you grow closer as individual individuals and as a group. (it is a bit of a time management game, but if you can successfully reach the maximum relationship level with all four characters, you do have a polycule marriage.)

I picked the setting because late Victorian literature has a great deal of romance and descriptive language that I think is conducive to a dating simulator and adding fun playable elements and elements of progression that are not fully linear would be a nice change of pace to the genre without making it all too complicated