As Cities Skylines II still isn’t worth it (the sub has a regular thread about that, in summary: no it’s not: https://old.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/1ch6lup/is_cities_skylines_ii_worth_it_megathread/) which games scratch your city building itch?
Against the Storm is my favorite one. It gives me my favorite part of city building: the early/mid game.
I’ve been playing this as well and really enjoying it. Now I need a similar game that does early game Civilization.