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> Settlers has war as well but I always felt it was secondary, definitely not something large scale.

Yes. This is the main reason why I always preferred Settlers and the Anno titles to AoE, EE or similar games. You could build things. AoE was mainly about destroying things. "Warfare" in the original Settlers I was just 2 cute knights hitting each other on the head with a sword until one of them was flat as a pancake.

> I get the same vibes from KCD 2

Add Gothic II, which was also very pretty (it still is, although it came out nearly 25 years ago).