I used to love playing the Maxis games like SimCity and SimAnt.

The games were effectively little agent-based modeling toys.

They made complex adaptive systems cool.

In most games, you play the role of a single avatar, making heroic decisions, the most important individual in the world. A finite game mindset.

In these games, there was no goal, it was just to tinker with the system holistically and see what would happen: more of an infinite game mindset.

Playing with the complex system, over time you fell in love with the complexity, intuitively grokking the emergent dynamics way better than you would if you just read about it.