I love these mechanics. Manually controlling a player character to run around a world doing these things is great for immersion.

I’ve already played Skyrim and My Time at Portia.

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    In case you didn’t see already, Portia has a sequel that’s at very late stage early access.

    The whole pantheon of Factory games fill a similar itch like some others have mentioned.

    I’ve very recently started playing Dinkum which is a bit more Portia/Stardew/Animal Crossing like, with running around to harvest and mine then crafting and selling to buy things to build your island.

    A bit less purely crafting but a good game with similar spirit is Graveyard Keeper.

    Some of the survival games have decent crafting mechanics. Like 7 days to die you can turn down the zombie part and spend some hours running around and getting material to build a base and fix vehicles and stuff. Also Raft and Volcanoids are some other crafty survival game.