The 3D turned me off in the previews and then I watched my friend play in real life. Much less confusing and more easily comprehensible than I thought.

One wonders how I navigate real-life 3D environments fine.

Game dev clicker game about developing an MMO, not an MMO itself. For anyone like me a bit confused

Museum of source code: A gift that appears after 10,000 engineers graduate from university

LOL, source code of the game? Cute (meant genuinely, not in a condescending way)

citybuilders@sh.itjust.works

Is this relevant to CRPG or is it "CRPG creator has opinion on controversial topic, with just a few sentences addressing how it's relevant to games?"

Controversy invading every space is why I seriously dialed back my Lemmy participation.

you have been banned from bunnies@lemmy.world

spoiler

joking

Added stuff I forgot. Somehow a lot turned out to be rat/mouse games.

Rat/mouse games

• Ratopia, survival and city building of cute rats
• Whiskerwood, city builder with rats under the oppressive thumb of cats, choose if you'll appease or start a revolution
• Ratropolis, roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building with rat citizens again
• Rocket Rats, tagged Survivors-like
• Rat Trap, tagged Metroidvania and Puzzle Platformer
• Small Saga (play as a mouse seeking revenge against the god who stole his tail, turn-based RPG
• Ghost of a Tale (mouse in medieval world only populated by animals)

Credit to https://lemmy.zip/post/63440777for the two mouse ones, and credit to a commenter blindkermit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on https://lemmy.zip/post/37620082for some rat ones

Non-rat/mouse

• Against the Storm is a roguelite city builder, with animals although there are humans too. So not sure if it merits inclusion then.

Man, compiling the list at the top… I love that. Thank you so much!

• List I made for games heavily featuring bunnies, I think all of them have playable bunbuns.
• Snake Pass: cute 3D snake platformer with interesting movement mechanics based on how snakes move in real life.
• VORON: Raven's Story, have not tried myself yet
• Cattails and its sequel Cattails: Wildwood Story, cute cat life simulation
• Little Kitty, Big City, also haven't tried myself yet
• Birb, a free incremental/idle game where you are a pigeon
• In Parkasaurus you don't play as the dinosaurs, but you do manage a zoo full of them
• Got Microtopia because ants + automationgames@lemmy.zip, albeit these are robot ants if I recall correctly.

I am a sucker for these kinds of games too. Might edit in more answers at some point.

Colony management game, OP. You do not have first-person perspective, but the same perspective you get in most citybuilders@lemmy.world. You build up a society of beavers only. I recommend it. It is set in nature in a post-apocalyptic type setting where beavers are the only sapient beings, but it comes off way more environmental hazard to work past and you can restore nature, and way less depressing and hopeless than "post-apocalypse" implies. Speaking as someone who typically writes off anything post-apocalyptic as not for me.