Some of you might have played the free game Seedship.
link for the free browser game:
It has a small thread here as well.
A short “procedural narrative experience” about a cryo-sleep colony ship. You arrive at various planets and decide whether to colonize them or not. While travelling random events improve and degrade your ship.
The developer released Beyond the Chiron Gate as a greatly expanded implementation of the same idea, still mostly text based.
Annoyingly only available on itch.io for PC, and in the usual mobile stores:
You control an exploration ship with a small crew and traverse an unstable, newly discovered gate network.
The lineage from Seedship is very noticeable but the mechanical interactions are greatly expanded.
The whole experience still works on some level but also suffers due to the loss of simplicity. Events are more numerous and more elaborate but also more punishing and random. Your crew will get hurt a lot as you fail 30-50% chance rolls.
Surface level interaction with various extinct and alive alien civilizations at different tech levels is the game’s best part even though it quickly bumps against the boundaries of the design.
As a whole it still works as the aimed for “procedural narrative experience” and is quite unique. Its frustrations however make it less enjoyable than Seedship despite/because of the mechanical expansion.