The prompts and responses strongly reminded me of the Tales of the Arabian Nights board game, where the key game mechanic is revealing a paragraph of some situa

The prompts and responses strongly reminded me of the Tales of the Arabian Nights board game, where the key game mechanic is revealing a paragraph of some situation challenging the protagonist, making a choice on which course of action to pursue, and reading the outcome of that (often depending on certain attributes of the character); and an interesting pattern in the game that when circumstances are really desperate and the rational actions clearly won't succeed, a relevant choice is to pray to Allah for help or guidance, which then does give a solution (just as it does qutie a few of the 1001 nights stories), - and the same automagically applies in this game, asking for divine intervention (and asserting that you do get one) is one way that consistently works.