>>107466608rim world sorta has that vibe going for it, another game people put thousands of hours into
i've never spent enough time for it to click with me yet though personally but might be worth checking out
dwarf fortress too but that's even more autism than factorio from what i understand
i swear there's a good amount of games like what you're talking about but i can't think of any other than rim world which is still kinda off the mark