Visual novel/RPG hybrid with lots and lots of non-standard game overs whose gimmick is that continuing from the same save file after getting a game over causes the player character to permanently acquire a new, typically troublesome trait reflecting the remembered trauma. The game autosaves, naturally, so this can't be fixed without save file manipulation. The RPG side of play is fairly straightforward if you never lose, but as bad endings accumulate (and some of them are functionally impossible to avoid without prior knowledge), it gradually develops into a disguised puzzle game where the challenge is finding a solution to the problem at hand that doesn't bump into any action or circumstance your accumulated trauma forbids.
Now, the real trick is that the final boss has a psychic attack that's seemingly impossible to survive and triggers a bad ending you don't come back from. An astute player may, however, notice that the mind-warping visions induced by this attack always correspond to a type of trauma associated with a bad ending which has not been received in the current playthrough. The only way to get the "good" ending is to ensure that every possible bad ending, even the seemingly mutually exclusive ones, has been experienced on the current save file. If you manage to satisfy this condition, the protagonist just goes "wait, that's it?" and totally no-sells the psychic attack because it can't find anything to inflict on them that hasn't been done already.
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