Long grindy game that doesn’t make use of predatory methods to eat up your time

While most of them are shit for one big reason i will explain below, a lot of the games on the app store actually hit on tropes that i find very appealing. There’s a lot of games where ypu collect little characters (like cat game), or all those legend of slime clones where you make slow incremental progress through stages, some of those farming games, summoner games and so on. I like the concept of a massive task that i can chip away at at my own pace, however all of these games are ruined by time gating and constant events that you can’t hope to complete in the ridiculously small allotted time.

Are there any games that are grindy but allow me to work towards one ultimate goal (a higher stage, a full collection, fully upgraded town, etc) one step at a time? Rather than games that require constant attention every single day to feel like i can ever “complete” something (get enough points to get all rewards in an event tree for instance).