You, Sir, are in fact very unlucky. Because if you start from the top, it can only go downwards. And Eternum is the peak.
Nevertheless, welcome to the cult of eternum worshippers!
I just finished the game to date, and this has to be an understatement. I've only played a handful of these sorts of games, but most of them either scrape by with some pleasant artwork and not much else (four elements trainer, rogue like, etc) or they're..
really rough all around. It's an interesting medium, but it's pretty clear that almost everyone involved in it is either a total amateur (no shame in that) or pumping out some pretty low-effort slop if they could do better.
This one blew my mind. I was not expecting to care much about the story or its characters, much less be
impressed by how good it all is. The art is consistently beautiful (discussions of models/rendering aside, simply knowing how to compose an image is
so important and they nail this in Eternum), the use of sound effects and music for humor and tension are flawless, I love every single character, and even the broader plot outsmarted me when I expected this to be some kind of lazy rehash of "Ready Player One" (a book/movie that I fucking despise) with a harem tacked on.
I can think of only one bit of this that I didn't thoroughly enjoy, and that was a video game reference that I felt was a little too indulgent. I found that other game pretty dull to begin with though, so it wasn't for me.