I too have found myself out of touch with popular RPGs. Dwarf fortress is probably the most fun current rpg that nears what you're talking about, but has a lot more complexities to go along with it.
I too have found myself out of touch with popular RPGs. Dwarf fortress is probably the most fun current rpg that nears what you're talking about, but has a lot more complexities to go along with it.
The level of patience needed for that game is astounding. I think one of the Terraria creators plays that as a hobby (could be wrong, might be thinking of a similar indy). I respect it, but I don't think I'm ready to go all in with it!
It's one of those games you can watch a 6 hour tutorial series on and still not know whats going on. But you can even read the day to day thoughts of each dwarf and you get attached to them and want to see them do well.