Satisfactory

This won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it sure is mine. Gorgeous graphics and catchy music while you relentlessly gather resources, optimize, and progress up the tech tree. This game put me in a flow state like no other game ever has.

Beautiful sandbox zenbuilder with a spacey narrative, unrestricted free and easy building and optimization and truely beautiful exploration. There are zero time restrictions—dropping all pressure and taking just the time you need, no matter how much, is enchanting. Erect persistent rewarding visual and haptic results with zero fear of loss or failure. Just right to put your brain to total rest. Most chill game I own. Can be very overwhelming for executive dysfunction due to possibility overflow.

While not a game for everyone, if you like the idea of building and advancing on an alien planet while getting hints that the company that has sponsored and supported you may not be telling you everything- all while streamlining for efficiency and coming up with your own designs, then you may love Satisfactory. I've put... a few hours into it. Yes. A few. So it can be a time-sink.

Really polished, and with improvements still being made by a clearly heavily-invested developer. Relaxing and addictive.

Satisfactory.

Fantastic for multiplayer.

This, along with Factorio are the ultimate automation games, and you will generally favour one over the other. This has a beautiful world to explore and a perspective most current gamers are very familiar with. It's the obvious choice if you don't want to go full spreadsheet mode. The controls are not intuitive though, and some of the system mechanics are weird, but building a vast factory from nothing in a beautifully realized 3D environment is - and I hate to say this - very satisfying.