Ask for the shape of the challenge.

Needs decay on a timer and nothing else really threatens you. The depth is in what the systems let you build rather than in anything they demand.

A management game with no failure state. What it asks for is patience and a ferry schedule, not skill.

Difficulty is a slider, and the systems are exploitable enough that a determined player can break the game open by hour five. What is left is a very long walk.

Reversing a trailer into a bay is the skill ceiling and the fatigue timer is the only pressure. Damage costs money rather than progress.

Largos and tarrs will wreck a careless corral overnight, which is as close as this gets to a fail state.

A fishing game with an inventory puzzle and a night timer. Panic is the mechanic, and the punishment for giving in to it is deliberately mild.

The difficulty is purely attentional — nothing in the game threatens you except the square inch of grime you keep walking past.

Combat that yields immediately to a difficulty slider, wrapped around a preparation system the game quietly assumes you will ignore.

Rewind, a braking line and drivatar tuning let anyone finish anything. The difficulty is entirely opt-in, and turning the assists off makes it a different game.

The difficulty is logistics — weight, terrain and route planning — with combat as an interruption you are usually allowed to walk around.