Haha thank you so much for the kind message, it's crazy to me that people are getting into the story so much seeing as the game started as an endeavor to improve my writing skills in the first place.
I wouldn't say there's something that directly inspired the writing and I've never heard of the game you mentioned, I might have to check it out.
But yeah, look forward to the 0.20 update, it's going to be very lore-heavy.