If you are willing to stretch beyond "Empire Building", I find Prison Architect amazing. The PC version is the best, but there are Console Versions (even Switc

If you are willing to stretch beyond "Empire Building", I find Prison Architect amazing. The PC version is the best, but there are Console Versions (even Switch), and IOS versions that have about 80% of the game. I admit my thinking might be effected by quarantine but Prison Architect scratched my strategy simulator itch in a way CIV used to and hasn't for the last couple years. It's way more contained, and more supportive of fun play sessions that are sub 30 minutes which is all I can squeeze in now.