I have always wanted to like Animal Crossing and farm games, but they don't feel good to me, mainly because I see them as "relaxing games" rather than "fun" games.

Cult of the Lamb is mainly a roguelike, but you have this side content (that is needed to progress and stay alive) of village/farm sim after runs and it works so god damn well, mainly because people tend to go fast at roguelikes and die for stupid reasons and then they feel stupid because they don't have the need to go fast, but sometimes you just want to play a run while you wait for your resources to process, or a cooldown to finish and that's when you start speedrunning and with a purpose. Hell, when you win or lose that 5 min run, you know you're gonna have something new to play with in the farm sim, which helps to relax and cool down and think about strategies while you do all these things. It's really cool! what's cooler is that you can later use your villagers as "resources" to become more and more powerful, making this part of the content very helpful if you're having troubles with it.

The combat is quite simple but it can get complicated if you desire. You have melee weapons, relics and the powers but tbh you can just use melee weapons or only powers if you want. The game incentivizes all kinds of playstyles and I find that really cool.