Really great read, I really found a lot of interesting things. Also I'm learning a lot about cozy games huh.
This manifesto bought Eco to mind, which was this game about having a small planetoid and forming a community with other players to try to defeat a giant meteorite, but everything you do has an environmental impact. I never did play a game, but I remember opening a server and seeing lots of details about the land like fertility, humidity and acidity.
Another that comes to mind is Vintage Story. It has some of these hurdles like fertility being different nutrients so you have to rotate the plants you use in the land, ambient temperature affecting plants, animals that can eat your plants. It could easily twist more into interesting complications. They are working on implementing rivers now.
