Did someone think this was a farm tycoon game?
But to answer the question, the protagonist I think is from the past and was thrown centuries into the future - the whole ordeal giving him amnesia. Plus, the fact that we're the protagonist and their amnestic fits the fact that we're getting bits and pieces of the story at a time, as this is a game being released in incremental updates due to the fact that it is all being done via donations and Patreon