Raithe

I think it's that survival with a loose element of storyline to follow, mostly paced at when you feel like it, but structured to guide you to fresh areas / new knowledge. Not just dropping you someplace with no clue apart from what the game box says for how you ended up there. Conan has that in a shallow guiding way. Empyrion has it in a general way. Subnautica has it in a more significant manner. ARK Survival is pretty non-existent with those elements.

Being escapist from everything, taking a step away from the RPG slice of things to swim around the ocean in Subnautica. I seem to have slid into that batch of survival / build games of late...

https://themindcircle.com/cats-ceiling/

Man, and it's weirdly depressing to see a run of news of Whedon being toxic to some of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast back then.

"There is nothing historically accurate about this film, it's just a festival for bisexuals."

Its been ages since I've done a proper City SImulator, so I snagged a copy of Cities Skylines while it was cheap and have started poking a bit at establishing a new community.... Then I noticed it's a Paradox published game, and realised why it has so many DLC available.

Just to add to that if you only saw the pictures and not the video...