Big fan of Vintage Story. It’s a voxel survival game like Minecraft but with a much heavier focus on realism and depth. There’s a much more satisfying sense of progression compared to Minecraft and the slower paced gameplay makes it feel extremely cozy despite the higher difficulty and complexity. Plus it’s got a very active modding community too!

I know it’s not quite a community builder, but it’s definitely a game for watching your world grow and evolve over significant periods of time!

Monster Hunter.

There’s a community saying: everyone loves Monster Hunter, they just haven’t played it enough yet. It’s an incredibly common experience for new Monhun players to hate it on their first or even second go around, but then eventually fall in love! It happened for me twice in fact. I played Tri on the Wii back when I was a kid, and then World on release in college, but did not get far either time. Then I tried it again a few years later and now I have played at least one monster hunter game from every generation as well as most of the spinoffs and it is my favourite series ever!