Crusader Kings 3 is just gigantic & tons of depth to it.

While I definitely agree with that statement, I dont think I would include Paradox GSG's in a suggestion to Civ-like games. Because they play very different from one another.

Still, think it is great, and looking forward to the end of the year when they add China, Korea, and Japan as playable kingdoms. Add that with Victoria 3 having a ton of improvements and the very likely announcement of EU5 of Thursday, and Paradox is on a roll with me right now...except for HOI4, of all things (the recent DLC is kind of stretching it).