Volkditty

Wildermyth. It is a good game.

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.

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