In no particular order

• Animal Well
• Outer Wilds
• Disco Elysium
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Return of the Obra Dinn

It only gets worse better with time. This is what yours could become.

I have a plushie Yoshi amiibo from Yoshi’s Woolly World, and I’ve stuck every whisker I’ve found from my cats into its head, so now it looks like one of those troll dolls.

no, trees can stay very small for a long time if the conditions are not right for example if the available light is too little to sustain a bigger tree, if one of the bigger trees dies and more light and nutrients reach the small tree, they will then start to grow bigger that’s how people make bonsai trees they meticulously create the conditions for the tree to be able to sustain itself and live but not too much so they stay small, there are decades old bonsai trees