Quester
Quester doesn't make a very good first impression. Your most urgent goal is to find enough food before a timer runs out and you starve, and it isn't immediately clear how this is even possible. The starting party members don't seem very good at their jobs, e.g., your tank dies in about two hits. It doesn't take long to figure out what you're expected to do, though, and maybe an hour in there's a sudden shift in focus from scraping together resources to experimenting with weird combinations of character and gear abilities. Absent much of a story, that's most of the game, and while I don't object to reading text boxes, I can also respect a crunchy dungeon crawler that focuses on its strengths and minimizes both the feeling of grindiness and the downtime between runs.