I know I'm a couple years late, but exploring this game was serene in a lonely sort of way. I imagine the village suffered some sort of drought and died off slowly as their food dwindled. A handful of crops survived, but never grew fruitful enough to feed someone. The water dried to mud beds and winds picked up sand and dirt as all of the roots crumbled. The villagers sheltered together in community spaces once bustling, and tried hard not to notice every time someone stopped showing up.