Rimworld can be like Factorio, playstyle totally depends on if you mod it.
In Vanilla you need to find a balance between totally boring and stupidly overwhelming, depending on your settings, starting conditions, biome and skills/knowledge.
I haven´t played it the last 7 or so months, so im like you with Factorio. Take the above with a grain of salt.
Satisfactory: i´d totally wait for Steam release, or even later into development, as ive come the conclusion that the reviews are not worth the bits to display them.
I dont get why everyone was so hyped about the trains, which can clip through terrain and even other trains, while it has no meaningful signals and cant really be controlled. And controlling them needs quite a read through Discord etc. to set up schedules. Its not really intuitive.
While its not 3D Factorio, it could use a bit of its automation goodies, especially since the last update with fluids, where they introduced loops (water goes into aluminum chain and abit comes back out)
Overall, so far its about building a pretty factory, not an optimized one.
You can spend quite a few 100 hours in it, depending on how fast you scale up, but after a while its mindnumbingly repetitive, because you have to handbuild everything (without the zone mod)
So far it has no endgoal, so everything you build could need a rework. You could go for x/items per second as a challenge, cos noone knows at what ratio you need them with later updates.
Dont get me wrong, i like the looks and feel about it
But you are a real beta tester, while you wait for secret updates that take ages and some minor QoL stuff is brushed aside for the goal of being awesome when the update is out. Like multiple toolbars you´ll want since the latest update introduced lots of new attachment points and foundations, sorry please wait. It´s a show and meaningful updates take like half a year.
Tbh, when the last one came out it almost worked perfectly, but i didn´t touch the game for 5 months and missed nothing in between.
Ive spent like 200h in the game, paved the pretty world in concrete foundations, but its not as awesome as reviews make it. It wont ever get close to the sandbox feels of Factorio.
ANNO 1800 gave me the same feels as mentioned above. ANGER.
Bugged campaign, not able to start it through steam, even tho other Uplay games work. Afaik its only aviable on EPIC, or at least the pulled it from Steam shortly after release.
The few hours a had with it were quite meh, compared to earlier titles. If you only wanna play and dont care about new fancy graphics, i´d recomment 2070, the last of the series i really played with a passion.
There is a reason i avoid UBI if i can, they are almost as bad as the other big ones, luckily im not interested in anthing those try to push.
City Skylines i never played
If you like Sandbox, maybe take a look at Transport Fever 2. Ive played part 1 and Train Fever and it can be very pretty and time consuming if you are into trains. I´d recomment mods, they make verything more pretty, but the game machanics stay the same.
For Factorio: Yes, i could be biased at over 3000h, but i try to diversify more lately.
So I´ll only say something about mods. Since you mentioned A+B: Bring some coffee! You´ll need it!
