For people who enjoy old school RPGs with harsh desert environments filled with numerous dangers, you are at the right place.
"Get Sunless Sea/Skies formula and crank lore, word count, trading, exploration and companion complexity to 11." Above would be still an inaccurate definition for Vagrus. This is by no means an easy game and that is why the game developers provided a demo. First and foremost you play as a Vagrus which can be a mercenary, a shrewd trader or an explorer...and a real successful Vagrus will be all of them. There are several questlines for factions, companions and some of them are independent contractors which may lead to quite unexpected outcomes. The world itself resembles the old Dark Sun games but with somewhat of Roman Empire and post-apocalyptic twist. Of course trading is the bread and butter for a Vagrus and the economy of the game is important to your survival. At first figuring out the proper routes can be intimidating but to ease that you can start building capital via doing delivery jobs for established factions. If you feel up to it, you can fight at arenas of large settlements and if you get beefy enough you can undertake dangerous quests that require a small army. If you are bored with the usual gameplay, you can always follow through detailed companion and faction quests that will take you all around the playable area. Note that also there is lots of reading involved in the game because the game has its roots on a homebrew tabletop game which developers played for decades. So it is painstakingly detailed in descriptions at times and to be honest apparently a labor of love. This game is a true oasis hidden in the depths of gameworld desert.
