Volkditty

You don’t have to have an opinion about everything.

Last paragraph…

"Then the wheel falls off while you’re driving, or the autopilot plows into a jersey wall, and you’re meant to be thrilled.* Glad even. Grateful! This is proof: You were an early adopter. A beta tester, a brave explorer. You’re helping to work out the bugs, mapping new territory. Who knows? In a hundred years this car’s descendants might be as reliable as cars that by then will be 150 years old, and you will have played a part in making it so. Won’t that be nice.

*Assuming you lived through it."

Have you tried This War of Mine? It has many of the elements you describe.

I would love to buy this game on sale and never get around to playing it.

Isn’t that what Grounded is? I haven’t played it personally, but it reviews well and that seems to be their aim.

X-COM with the Long War mod is where it’s at.