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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Certain demographics of people fucking love efficiency. Seeing a task done in a manner that is super fluid and making big number go up feels fucking great.
This is across multiple genres. Pikmin 4 just did the same thing so heavily it used the word "dandori" untranslated to push the meme of it. Clicker/idle games use it to see big numbers go up. RCT uses it to give management simulation a go. Palworld is literally a survival crafting game but with slaves to do the crafting for you.
You are looking at symptoms instead of the root, likely because you have a chronic case of "I don't like it therefore its stupid and ruining the industry," which is why you are missing the dopamine spikes it gives to people who love it.