“The Island Of Rhynin”, by Ilias Seferiadis is a short Twine game, written in an adventure game-book style. The character attributes defined in this game book are health, competence, confidence, and trust. For each choice the player makes, a bonus or penalty may be applied to the displayed values of each attribute. My first game I role-played as a courageous but humble explorer. This strategy had a mixed impact on my confidence score: courageous actions increased my confidence but humility decreased it. In most situations it is easy to predict which choices will result in good outcomes and which ones will not. In the late game, some choice options become unavailable if the scores have fallen too low, something I observed only on a second play-through where I deliberately made the worst choices I could at every turn. The game is short and it was worth it to play more than once to see these different outcomes.
Thematically, this felt a lot like an RA Montgomery or E Packard “Choose your own adventure” book: foreign explorers arrive on an already inhabited “primitive” island with the implied purpose of taking what treasures they can. Even the ending resonated with what I remember about Packard’s books (spoiler)
in the end game, at least one of the protagonists must perish.