Utopia is a game played by two players on two continents. Players must build their island nation by building farms, housing, schools, hospitals, and factories and making other improvements while also competing against another player. Players are able to sabotage the other player as well, but they must also handle maintaining a fleet of PT boats to protect their fishing fleet, building forts to prevent rebellion, and dealing with the occasional hurricane.
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In the early 2000s I would spend summers with my grandparents who lived pretty far from me. My grandfather loved toys and video games, and had a pretty huge collection built up over the years of consoles - and that's how I spent my early childhood with stuff like the Intellivision and Atari Jaguar. Utopia is one of the first "city builders" to exist, and on top of that, it supports two players. Player 1 gets the island on the left, Player 2 gets the island on the right. You can passively build your wealth by planting crops and hoping for a rain cloud to come by, and you can get your hands dirty and buy a boat which you can use to chase after schools of fish. After you rack up enough money, you can place buildings, which don't do much other than increase your score. This is basically the entire game, rinse and repeat - and I absolutely love it. You barely need to pay attention to it and it's endlessly relaxing. The game lets you decide how long each "round" lasts and we'd always crank it up to the highest and just shoot the shit.
A revised Sea Battle with some more strategy elements thrown in.