Civ IV but eventually you crack it because it's quite finite. Civ 5 is quite infinite in variations of strategy. Civ 3 is somewhere in the middle between the three. All of them are a complete waste of time and unless you're down and out or just a kid I would not recommend it.

Other than that - irl stuff like building businesses and technology and maybe even social structures, but be careful with this one, there are hostile jews out there and they love to play this game and play it ruthlessly.
It may be pretty slow to pick up pace, but you're not bound by the parameters of the human limited designers. I mean humans can and do get good, but they're merely imitating what's possible out here. And sometimes they do a tremendous job, but still..

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>>148821
The only Civilisation game I've played a lot was the original and that was too long ago. I do have V and have tried it but it didn't grab my attention even as loosely as the original back in the day.
Also please keep the off-topic to the boards where it belongs.

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This is what happens when you never use auto mode on something and suddenly have an OH SHIT! moment. Now I won't get those damn CBMs from the zombie.
Also lost the previous game to corruption or something so yet another new start.

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Started a new game in an old version because modern BN is a buggy mess too now. After many retries finally a decent enough start.
And after finally getting out of the lab I find a dog and think hey, maybe I can take it in. Except there was a spider nearby who had different ideas. Predators don't even eat anything, still, how many years after one fork after another. Well, the dog gets a cremation and the spider will probably become new boots.

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Oh, I should go get that prototype cyborg now that I have 10 in first aid and an autodoc somewhere closer to surface than -10. Yeah. I should not have left it so close to a lightning vent. Funny how it should have been like 50 kg worth of metal instead of some scrap but whatever.