I saw Hero and Daughter+ recommended as a JRPG with a ton of recruitable characters. I was in the mood for that type of thing and it was cheap, so I said "cool" and grabbed it without thinking much. Turns out, it's a harem game. Not really my thing, but I decided to press ahead anyway. I was met with an enjoyable, if grindy, 4th wall breaking, dungeon delving experience. It does hit most of the harem anime checklist of stupid bullshit along the way, but I'm happy to just ignore that. If you're not, then I'd recommend avoiding this one.

I completed the main storyline, and the end game content required a wall of grinding to get going with, so I decided to call it quits there. It actually presents a very fun grind with a lot of systems to interact with, but I was only looking for 10-15 hours before moving on. I got that, so I'm happy enough.