Hey, if you like creative original mechanics, and a unique gameplay you should check Poke Wisteria Online...
Its not like an average fangame, and the game is designed in a way to promote roleplay, you create your character and the mechanics and rules will aid you to live his life/journey as you and interact with other players, its pretty fun...
The setting happens 30 years before red's journey, the league was just starting its business and the pokedex was still being developed, you can be a head member and organizer of the league to a general trainer kid, a scientist, a professor helping kids start their journey, a gym leader, a villain, actually anything the story can come up to, and there are ALOT of mechanics to aid those:
small examples: you can end up discovering "custom" powers, and then teach other people, like being a human with telekinetic powers, or be a great engineer and create huge machinery like team rocket's mechas, or even be a leading businessman and control portion of the region and create your own villain team, be a high member of the police and help enforce the law, even the law is up to global power that can end up changing like the govern and the league... the technological discoveries are made by players, the factories, mines and laboratories are held by in game player organized groups that end up defining the items being sold and exported through the region...
everything you can think of can (and will be) affected by the story!...
Interface is pretty clean and original aswell!
Tho, the game opens up in "seasons" we call "wipes", once a story comes to an end the game goes into a downtime and the developers make the new features and get ready for the next wipe/test (during these open beta periods), in the future we wont "reset" and instead will have just one long wipe..:
All of this said, you should check the games discord to know more, keep your eyes open there because next wipe will start very soon (probably this week!)
https://discord.gg/MGhhsfx