Kenshi

Kenshi is probably a better game than I'm giving it credit for, one you could sink hundreds of hours into and the investment would pay off.  It's a complex open world sandbox squad based RPG.   Sheesh, even the genre is a bit of a tongue twister.

But it's not a world that has a plotline for you to follow.  There are a couple major factions, but the idea is that you can play as a trader/farmer/bandit/whatever you want and react to the world the way you want.  

Clunky complex describes the game in two words.  There is definitely a learning curve and I'm not sure wanted to try a couple attempts at building some sort of homestead base that's well defended from roaming bandits, only to bleed out while walking my animal caravan to the next city to trade wheat and copper.  The Sims - Peasant.