Playing games with an emphasis on story.

This is a stat building raising sim where you play a cat spirit who has left faerie in search of your absent prince. While searching about the city of Verona, you run into a collection of interesting characters, all taken from Shakespeare.

I honestly haven't played that many stat building VNs, so I don't have much to compare The Nine Lives of Nim to. Even though there felt like a lot of down time at certain points I kind of liked the exploration involved in trying new jobs or learning new skills, meeting new people, visiting new places, and so on and so forth. And there are ample tracking elements to tell you what you've missed or what you might want to try for. There are dozens of story lines to pursue, and many different endings for Nim, so if you are an exploratory gamer you might find a lot to do here.