Nature games about real animals doing real things: Long Dark, Hunter Call of the Wild, Empires of Undergrowth, etc.

I have tried a bit of Empires of the Undergrowth, and I think it’s good enough that I will be returning to it when it’s out of early access, but I have some pretty big issues currently with the scenario-based structure of the game. I don’t know what the best alternative is–randomly generated maps?–but it feels overly scripted and stodgy to me.