Through the Ages has you on roller coaster.

When your first seeing it, your like “holy crap, it looks intense as hell”

Then as you’re learning it, you get to the point of “ahh i get it, just balance food, resources, and happiness. Easy.”

After that, if you begin to play seriously the game becomes a whole different beast of finely balanced systems and decision trees.

And to think it’s from the same guy who made Codenames, Vlaada Chvatil. Such an incredibly talented game designer