I know there's one builder game out there that'll let me create something that really, really doesn't fucking matter at all but that I'd be really proud of like some kind of hard drug to the extent that I'd end up treating that save file like some priceless artifact.

Am I missing out? What games would you guys recommend?

Then again, the only builder games I've ever really played was SimCity 2000 and SimCity 3 and in hindsight I don't get the sense that any of my cities were fundamentally different from any other city someone playing would make. They are all, more or less, a random but mostly uniform assortment of roads and zoning. Much of the rest is purely on a per need basis. "High crime here better add a police station. Low crime here, don't add a police station." How would other builder games be fundamentally any different? What's more, I vastly preferred Command & Conquer series over Sim City. Although I wonder if a part of me treated both as builder games. After all everyone knows the base missions are more fun.