Paul Farquhar
Legend
Yes, you can play D&D without fighting, but if you take away classes and levelling, then it's no longer D&D.
I would recommend you try again to recruit players for a different game system (I'm pretty sure CoC is the most popular game of the type you want, and it works fine for non-Lovecraft horror*). It might be difficult, but at least there exists online play as an option. I went for a great many years without a PnP game back in the 90s simply because I could not find any other players.
* Or it did, I haven't played the current edition - I think they are on 6th?
I would recommend you try again to recruit players for a different game system (I'm pretty sure CoC is the most popular game of the type you want, and it works fine for non-Lovecraft horror*). It might be difficult, but at least there exists online play as an option. I went for a great many years without a PnP game back in the 90s simply because I could not find any other players.
* Or it did, I haven't played the current edition - I think they are on 6th?