Factorio

Factorio is a construction and management simulation game developed and published by Czech studio Wube Software. The game was announced via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in 2013 and released for Windows, macOS, and Linux on 14 August 2020 following a four-year-long early access phase to positive reviews. The game was released on Nintendo Switch on 28 October 2022.[1] The game follows an engineer who crash-lands on an alien planet and must harvest resources and create automated industry to build a rocket; however, as it is a sandbox game, players can continue the game past the end of the storyline. There are both single-player and multiplayer modes as well as eight additional game scenarios. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorio

Patrick McKenzie is rather addicted.

Nov'2024, Tobi Lutke: Factorio continues its uninterrupted streak of temporarily disabling nerds, just to rerelease them back into the wild armed in queue theory and system design skills to skyrocket global GDP

Like World of Warcraft but driven by managing systems rather than people?