Kenshi

Awesome game if you like creating your own stories ! You start as nobody (or almost nobody) and you can rise in so many ways. You can become a merchant, a mercenary, a collector of unique weapons, a town keeper, a drug dealer, an anarchist and more ! Maybe you'll even overturn a whole nation alone or with some friends ! You can build your own town and get rich crafting weapons and armors or steal those weapons. Exploring an unknown world and discovering mysterious creatures is very cool. I spent 300+ hours on this game (on steam) and I still launch it and play hours with pleasure !

Go find some ore, mine it, find a man try and beat him up, and fail. Buy a friend try and beat up another man, fail again, starve, lose a limb, maybe die. Start again do it over and do it better or worse. Freeform at its best have the fun that you want where you want.

Go anywhere. Punch anyone. Steal anything. Get beaten up. Get sold into slavery. Pick the cage lock. Karate chop my owner. Pick him up and run away. One star deducted for not allowing me to recruit slaves into my totally-not-a-gang. (Seriously wtf. Don't pull the punch at the last minute like that.) Buy it.

This game hates you and wants you to die. It's awesome.

They plop you in a world that hates you and you just want to survive, then you want revenge, and then 200 hours have gone by, exactly the kind of game you think it is and it does it better