Elona+, a weird ass game meant for autistic masochists like myself. You don't win Elona, you take some magic mushrooms, ascend to cloud nine and then experience it in all its absurd wonder.
Word of waning, the cover art shown on F95 is from the wrong version. They yoinked it from Elona mobile, a nerfed port of the original ran by a surprisingly wholesome studio. The graphics looks great, the rng is dialed back, and they fixed a good portion of the English translation.... and this has actually made the game worse. Elona is not a good game at its core,,the shear absurdity of the experience is what keeps you playing; by toning that down, the mobile port becomes merely an ordinary RPG with a bit more autism added as a secret ingredient. I still recommend it though, its a cool little passion project and (mostly) free.
Elona+, the fanmade continuation of the original, looks like ass... and much like dwarf fortress, this has never hampered my enjoyment of the game. If you haven't, watch Sethz video on the game or read the autistic copy-pasta below this post, then download and enjoy.
I can't give you a guide for this game or any quantifiable metrics so I'll just say this: its the type of game where your pet child can get impregnated by alien eggs after drinking from the toilet; where the tutorial npcs are pro elf nationalists that intentional fuck you over, only telling you the worst way to do everything and laughing as you eat a rotting human corpse to stave off starvation; and you can evolve cows so monstrously large, that their multi-ton shit is enough to instantly crush all but the strongest of creatures.
Play it, if for no other reason then the meme you'll get out of it.
Trying to figure out how to install the game can be a pain, so I recommend checking these two sites for a basic description of game branches and mods.
https://rentry.org/8vkaw
https://rentry.org/azzi6
Ps. There's a frail old man in the first town that secretly carries the best weapon in the game. Stealing it or killing him is one of the funnest ways to start a run.