In Hero Generations, each step you take is an entire year of your hero's life. You explore a procedurally generated world in search of fame and a mate to have a child with before you die. After your life ends, you take control of your child in the world you left behind, in the hope of continuing your family legacy. Each turn becomes a meaningful life decision: you can focus on building and crafting the world around you, or adventuring to far off lands to make a bigger name for yourself.
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Picked this up on Itch a while back and it looked interesting so I decided to give it a shot. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like there’s all too much to it. You walk around a board, build buildings, fight the same few monsters with a dice roll, and eventually die when bad luck or carelessness drains your lifespan. The whole “generations” thing doesn’t amount to much as your offspring don’t get stronger over time, you just get a collection of traits and bonuses each life. There appears to be a remake of out now, but the older version is the one I played. Play the new one if you enjoy planning out a strategy across a board with a very limited number of moves, but it’s certainly not a 4X game as the description states.