Reminds me of bones files in nethack.

I was going to say, NetHack doesn't feel sparse to me, but maybe I just have not played enough NetHack.

I think it's due to the fact that there is a fair bit of content, but the interface drip-feeds them very slowly, combined with the difficulty of the game itself that prevents users from finding all possible ways to interact with all content.

	▲	rcxdude 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nethack does procedural generation pretty well, and indeed roguelikes are a pretty good framework for it, because the game design tends to revolve around giving the player different options to solve a given problem and they're also not too afraid to have the difficulty vary a lot between runs.