If you want to check out something related, wierd, and interesting check out German radio controlled truck conventions ... lots of people go together and drive their RC stuff in a sensible realistic manner. I find it adorable.
I've put a ridiculous number of hours into Ship Graveyard Simulator 2. Why am I, a white collar guy from a developed country, spending hours pretending to be a Sri Lankan with one of the worst jobs in the world? It's bizarre when you think about it.
Who am I to judge? I've played several nuclear power plant sims... But come on? Gleisbau? And a sim where you're paint stripes on roads? Go home Germany, you're drunk.
If I remember correctly those games were all pumped out by one studio in a short time. They're heaping piles of trash, sometimes literally unplayable and probably only had players because they gave them away with gaming magazines.
Yesterday I spent 1,5 hours to sort my 550 mods for a new Rimworld playthrough. Game didn't launch, so I decided to try again another day and ended up playing Guild Wars 2.