Words are inadequate

It is ... sort of a roleplaying game and sort of an interactive-fiction game, where you do various tasks and test various stats to unlock interesting bits of story, and by story I mostly mean "landscape," though there's a sort of overarching plotline that you can attempt to follow. In practice, after awhile you do the same kind of thing a lot to raise stats so you can hopefully get to someplace more interesting, only it's the same kind of place.