Grave of the Fireflies, a Ghibli film. Stopped it a couple times. Ended up finishing it eventually, wish I never had.

There’s a reason https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ exists after all

Still feels like an untapped niche. Doesn’t help that adventure games in general have mostly been folded into other genres now.

Human Resource Machine and even Factorio scratched that same part of my brain.

An IBM PCjr, when I was 4 (I was one of those kids that picked up reading very quickly).

I learned DOS, played King’s Quest, and even picked up simple programming in BASIC from a book. Not sure if the book was a pack-in with the computer or if my parents got it for me separate. I didn’t learn PC internals until a few years later, although I do vividly recall an ISA-slot 15MB hard drive that was the size of one of today’s big video cards.