2 picks for me: Stardew Valley, most boring shit ever, I don’t see the appeal, seriously how the hell did that thing sold 20 million copies?
And Witcher 3, I own that game since 2019 and I regret buying it, funny thing is that I’ve finished Dragon Age 1 and 2, which are kinda same genre but I actually enjoyed those games. I guess the old BioWare sauce carried those games unlike Witcher where there’s nothing to enjoy in its massive pointless world.
What kills Civilization for me is the phase in which I just wait for production or other stat to fill up and there’s nothing interesting to do for couple turns.
Civilization Revolution is kind of black sheep of the Civ family, because it’s “dumbed down” and “not a true civilization game”, but IMO it has much better pacing.