Manga/novel suggestion~
This village Sim NPC could only be human: MC gets a mysterious package with a real time sim game inside. He acts as a god who guides his subjects with daily oracles as they build a settlement. As time goes on, he becomes attached to these seemingly fake people and strives to better himself so he can help them. Strangely, whenever they send him offering’s, they later show up at his doorstep but that can’t mean anything, right?