[noobermin]

There once was an rpg that had you move boxes around and fight random box encounters, and the battles were likewise just deducting each other's hp in turn with a rng. There was no dialogue I can recall. Basically similar spirit but I remember playing it in the mid 2000s.

I might be misremembering but your characters also had "spells," a menu for attacks but each attack was a random string of characters.