I've been getting into Mount & Blade: Warband recently, it's pretty sim-ish but fits the criteria, although there's basically no pre-written story to speak of, a story of sorts evolves organically as you play. It's weird but fun, and better than Bannerlord I'd argue.
FippleStone
The corporations always do at the moment
You see what they want you to see
Thank you for the quality assurance, you may have saved my install.
Yeah but, you're a towel.
Huh, it must have been, because it's all looking normal now. And here I was assuming it was a questionable artistic choice, good on you and thanks for following up on it.
Why make the text so large in your comment? It really threw off the flow of the thread for me
Fuck yeah man, I love that conviction. If only everyone were so inclined, the world would be a better place.
Hopefully it will help to shift your perspective, so while your situation might not change, your outlook on it will
You could get something like a 5-bay HDD enclosure that connects to the mini pc via usb, but while that's very clean it also might be slow and/or expensive. Alternatively you could get an NVMe to 5-port sata adapter and cobble together some kind of Frankenstein pc, which is probably cheaper and maybe faster, but is certainly a hack-ier solution and who knows what the reliability is like with them. I'm sure it'll be a fun project regardless of what you go with.
Links for reference:
https://www.amazon.com.au/ChenYang-Express-Adapter-Converter-Extension/dp/B09MSZCRBV?
Same as Australia, mostly
I feel like there's an interesting discussion to be had around source ports v emulation