Graphics often (must?) come at the expense of gameplay depth. The deepest (to me, most interesting) games -- roguelikes, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress -- all have s

Graphics often (must?) come at the expense of gameplay depth. The deepest (to me, most interesting) games -- roguelikes, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress -- all have shit (not photorealistic 3D) graphics, as if out of necessity. Maybe because they're all tile-based? The sole exception to this I can think of are 4X games. Europa Universalis 4 looks pretty good, and I could picture it being photorealistic and fully ray traced while still being one of the deepest 4Xes of all time.