You don't have to have an opinion about everything.

Last paragraph...

"Then the wheel falls off while you're driving, or the autopilot plows into a jersey wall, and you're meant to be thrilled.* Glad even. Grateful! This is proof: You were an early adopter. A beta tester, a brave explorer. You're helping to work out the bugs, mapping new territory. Who knows? In a hundred years this car's descendants might be as reliable as cars that by then will be 150 years old, and you will have played a part in making it so. Won't that be nice.

*Assuming you lived through it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeciphered_writing_systems

It's more nuanced than that, but generally speaking papal infallibility today only extends to very limited circumstances where the Pope puts on his special papal infallibility hat and says, "I hereby decree..." some specific topic of church law.

Have you tried This War of Mine? It has many of the elements you describe.

A handful of relatives at Thanksgiving wanted to have a conversation/diatribe about what the pope was doing wrong but hey look, I'm gonna go stand over here instead.

I would love to buy this game on sale and never get around to playing it.

Isn't that what Grounded is? I haven't played it personally, but it reviews well and that seems to be their aim.

I stopped playing BG3 to try Starfield when it came out. I got through the intro, landed at that first populated world, and stopped to talk to a janitor at the train station. She said something like, "Boy, I sure would like a cappuccino from TeraBrew!" and a quest tracker popped up for me to go buy her a cup of coffee. I delivered it to her and she gave me a bag of apple slices that healed 1 HP or some shit.

I went back to playing BG3.

I don't know.

X-COM with the Long War mod is where it's at.

This isn't going to go down with the strongly Catholic members of my family, all of whom believe they know Church doctrine better than the pope.