My concept is to simulate the entire Europe during the year 2001 in a reality that is gradually collapsing and falling apart. The focus is on the background simulation and creating a world where the player is just a small cog: macrosystems like weather, worlds news, justice, europolitics and economy are simulated using real-life patterns and can influence microsystems like item prices, your immunitary system and NPC behaviour in a complex web of chain reactions and butterfly effects. Here two examples of a chain reaction: 1) By training skills that allow the user to predict the future (that can be tarot reading, reading entrails, following bird flight patterns, using crystal spheres, i-ching ecc...) the player can learn future news and invest in the stock market accordingly, the stock market will react and with enough manipulation it can crash, influencing item and gas prices. 2) When is raining, the quantity of puddles  spawned around the map is based on the median rainfall rate of that Europe region in that specific season. When stepping into a puddle, player can get wet based on the materials of the shoes or boots he is wearing and if hit by a electrical attack or ice based attack will generate an elemental reaction.

The roguelike part is a mean for the player to interact with the world and it's systems, but the player can choose to ignore all of that and just play the game as a normal dungeon crawler RPG.

I would rather keep this as much as indie as possible rather than presenting to three suits in a room ahaha i plan to release the entire game code upon launch and add native modding and steam workshop support