Icaria

if you want automation games with an twist with an different style with a-bit of programming this game has barely enough content ea wise, if you pick it up just to support the devs or get it because you like games that make you think if you do it right theirs enough content do get easy 40+ hour game play saves. it just as an mid rate learning curve also cairns can be use as an quasi elevator until the dev adds belt lifts into the game. just note the game is early on, but worth it if you dont care about the jank.

This is kind of cool except when the ui has weird glitches

It's definitely improved since the first version of the demo I played (and that was a solid game already!). The new tutorials address pain points (how to switch by team color rather than creating a new role for each task, biomass usage, solving resource bottlenecks, and mass leveling of terrain). It feels like a combination of minecraft, factorio, and autonauts or a zachlike- there's automation, though it's not super complex unless you want it to be, you have the power to change the literal shape of the world through voxel creation and destruction, and it's fluid in how you go about and implement tasks. If you like any of those games, and especially if you like all of them, I would highly reccomend Icaria.