I had an amazingly similar experience in 1981 while in college. Roommate had an early Apple computer with a very similar game, don’t recall the name but it was a very similar premise, making decisions on resources and building in ancient Egypt with consequences for decisions when unanticipated things happened. I was in college, but hooked on this game one night and kept playing all night until I noticed the birds singing and it was daylight outside - had been going for nearly 12 hours nonstop. That was it for me. Put the game away and swore off computer / video games for the rest of my life.
I have two boys - both of them have had troubles controlling the time they use these games. One is over it, the younger still struggling.
I find parents waste their sons’ childhood becoming simply game “controllers” (ha ha ha). I did differently. I never used video games as a reward. Thus it was just a part of life, not something they would jump through hoops to be able to do.
I didn’t let them get the shooters until they were about 14. Then I would literally buy them for them (since you had to be 16). Interesting to watch how they would organize with their friends as they played. I did not find it a bad thing at all.