I haven’t played CotL, but if you like the management side of it, plus the storytelling of following a single person out of a group full of personalities, Rimworld might interest you. It’s like an ant farm, except every ant is different (different preferences and goals, different social relationships, diff skills and passions, etc), and on a backwater planet. It’s kind of like a space western, but it can be anything you like, with mods. Rn I’m running a multigenerational playthrough, from neolithic to spacer. Gotten to medieval. Last game was psyker cowboys. The one before that anarcho communist vampires. Think for my next one I’ll do a fish cult pirate faction.