One of my favorite indie card rogue-likes, Monster Train 2, has an absolutely amazing soundtrack. Monster Train 1 is also good (same artist, Jordan Chin) but they really caught my attention, the games are criminally underrated.
Monster Train 2 track example: https://youtu.be/KlS3jkEhi7o
Hopefully more people play these wonderful games.
Was mentioned in another comment but Rue Valley is published by Owlcat, not produced by them. Just want to increase visibility on that since it’s a really common mistake.
Everyone else covered stuff pretty well. I guess I want to elaborate more on the writing style of 40K:
The reason why 40K grimdark stuff is so fascinating and not just depressing is because humanity has spread so far, to countless untold worlds being found and re-found as the warp fucks up space travel etc. that the value of a human life is essentially NOTHING.
They live in such horrible fascist, imperialist control, surrounded by countless incredible enemies and dangers that most imperialist groups just wipe out groups of people (or even planets) that seem corrupted, or straying, or whatever else.
I think understanding the level of oppression for these people is tantamount to understanding the morality and characters of rogue trader. As a rogue trader, you are one of the only wildly privileged people in the galaxy. Everyone else is so used to existing in this deeply fucked hierarchy in this deeply fucked universe, that to understand them you need to accept this is how their lives are.
Sorry if that was too vague, but it is important context, I think. This is a universe where the value of a human life is infinitesimal.
I feel like this has to be the only sensical read. He’s now wondering if his tattoo is real dumb as well and the guy was just being happy/nice.