This isn't me trolling by the way, honestly curious because I've seen that games like Factorio are very popular. I'm definitely a simulation type gamer, I never really could get into Rollercoaster Tycoon and other similar games and it looks like these indie titles like Palworld as well are an evolution of that. Kind of surprised that these have largely taken over the indie space and it seems it's the 'thing' right now to play.
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Easy. You start the game and something is tedious. Then you upgrade or optimize something to make it less tedious. You get a dopamine hit.
You create a cool building full of machines networked together to do a previously very complex task. You get a dopamine hit every time you see your cool building on the horizon.
A train passes by filled to the brim with resources you used to have to travel across the map for. You get a dopamine hit.