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A lot of it is the inventive worldbuilding. So much of roleplaying is either D&D--which is its own genre at this point, with its own conventions that don't automatically match everything else--or "our world plus [X]," with vampires or cosmic horror or whatever. Mechanical Dream doesn't even have humans, and the world it takes place in is clearly not the classic "a planet floating in space around a star" that even most fantasy worlds are assumed to be. The parasitic ecosystem concept is fascinating to me, with the miles-high trees and animals a thousand feet tall, and entire game taking place on a smaller-scale ecosystem that's around and under that.

I also love that characters have to have social ties because of orpee. Without eating it, they die. Only the Inaïs can harvest it, and it only grows underground, so a massive social infrastructure is required to harvest it and get it to the surface so people can survive.

It's just so fascinating.