Hi, I've been reading The War Of The Worlds recently and had an idea around that basis. You play as someone who lives of the outskirts of town who made a promise to never leave their house, but with the arrival of the Martians in their tripods has to sacrifice this and leave home. You are as unacquainted to the new landscape as the aliens would be, albeit the town is now rubble with the surrounding forest on fire. I don't know how the failure is inevitable part comes in, but I hope this helps! I'm not a game developer so this idea is probably stupid but I thought I would give you an idea anyway. Good luck!
