@Interestedparty It’s like saying that having a sprained wrist is less sucky than having two broken legs.
But to address this in terms of making interesting games, here’s a dead WIP of a particularly nondull part of the era:
I’m fairly sure if it had actually been finished it wouldn’t have been worse received than the fantasy games here (which do seem to predominate the list). Why the author didn’t finish this I don’t know any more than any more magical/fantastical game that is a dead WIP - those have died too.
So if we’re going to talk “Yes, why don’t we have games like that?” a game where my choices on encountering a peasant maiden involve deciding whether I want to kill her before or after raping her is not “medieval nonfantasy”, it’s just a different sense of the word “fantasy” than dragons and wizards. It’s the kind of fantasy that brought us Custer’s Revenge in different trappings.
I think that’s important if we’re going to try to get anyone to write or play something set in this thousand odd years of history.