Why?

Which is funny, because computer games didn’t have any kind of story at the beginning (look at pong, tetris, qbert, asteroids etc.)

What would be a better alternative in your opinion?

Olles klaa maistaa

I really like wekan for this. It’s straightforward. Gets updates. And is flexible in terms of adding new fields to cards etc.

Have a look at umami https://github.com/umami-software/umami

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Engine

The Creation Engine is a 3D video game engine created by Bethesda Game Studios based on the Gamebryo engine.

Creation is a modified gamebryo. So Creation 2 will also be Based on it. Beteshda will not change away from it because gamebryo is a large reason why the modding community is as strong as it is for skyrim etc. And the modding community sells a lot of copies!