A ball of clay rolling down a workshop bench. Everything you roll over sticks to you, every gram makes you stronger and clumsier, and the last gate always wants you small.
Your spells are relics that shatter permanently when used. The strongest one in the cathedral has a single use — power here is a consumable, not a stat.
Nine camera feeds and one terminal. The thing in the facility steers away from whichever feed you are watching — so it walks through the rooms you stopped checking.
Your tyre tracks stay in the dust. The line you pack on lap one is grip by lap two and a rut by lap five — and a rut is the fastest thing on the course, if you meant to be in it.