Maybe KCD2 is for you then, it got rid of the fantasy part and has historic figures in it instead.

An RPG without a story and full focus on gameplay, if you like fighting monsters over and over again it sure is great, but otherwise it lacks alot

Game developers also like to get paid, if early access wouldn’t be an option we would have far less indie games and far more half baked 1.0 releases. No one is forcing you to buy ea titles.

Steck deine scheiß Waffe weg!

Almost every game is a indie game at this time, stop looking for big capital games

Rimworld has an amazing soundtrack

Have you mentioned that in gaming forums aswell when they talked about AI?

AI is a broad term and can mean many different things, it does not need to mean ‘true’ AI