I’ve been revisiting anno 2205, infamously the ugly duckling of the Anno series of RTS games. I don’t mind so much the fact that it’s different, lacks customisation and random map generation - I’m bothered because the game is so slow to progress through on challenge settings, and it feels like a game designed just to artificially waste your time; in other anno games, you can always pull tricks to dig yourself out of economic crisis - selling off assets and surplus goods, completing quests for other parties, or taking loans. 2205 is very very confined in terms of what you can do to financially recover in the early game and forces you into a lot of military events.
I thought Bethesda was sure to come up! I did play heavily modded Skyrim back in the day, when things were run through a Nexus of some sort; I don´t know if it became enshittified, but it seems like they had the mod thing pretty well handled. I also played a lot of Fallout 3, and was so happy when I could get rid of the green glow, which is not only ugly, but unrealistic. Chernobyl is a beautiful wild paradise now.
I’ve played Zomboid and I think it’s a pretty small town, and survival is really always the top priority. Never consider it an exploration game.
Yes, it does seem that what you like is PROXIMAL to a few other much more profitable genres; thank the gods for mods.
I’ll look into the Undead Legacy mod thanks.