Point and clicks have quite a few similar examples, the genre lends itself well to dioramas because even when it's 3D it's often a fixed camera path that you can optimize for.

As an example, a nice looking one from a decade ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/205020/Lumino_City/

Papetura also got a fair bit of attention for a while (for good reason, just look at it): https://youtu.be/ZVhtuKleLuI

Personally I love the hand-crafted "real" look these bring. It tends to consume a ton of disk space, but it looks good pretty much forever.

I accidentally hovered my mouse cursor over the images, and saw a detailed description. It may have been generated by AI, but it's a nice touch that was not expected

Something similar was done for the 1996 game Creatures. A part of the diorama still survives and is on display at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge (https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/42694/Creatures-Deve...).

There was a nice game in this style called The Neverhood.

You could do gaussian splat on the diorama picture and you can have pretty good dynamic camera movements where the player could walk around

Oddly enough, some of Cliff Bleszinksi's first titles published by Epic (then Epic MegaGames) were point and click adventures like Palace of Deceit: The Dragon's Plight. They had MSPaint graphics and VB code.

This is a lovely continuation of that same tradition that takes full advantage of your analogue craftsmanship skills.

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