Stellaris Multiplayer is broken and makes me sad, looking for alternatives

My wife and I enjoy Stellaris, but it's been broken since 4.0 and we were enjoying a multiplayer game that became unplayable due to desyncs. We've also enjoyed Anno 1800, but it's so huge to install. Is there a game out there that's multiplayer, colony or civilization-building, real-time, and has a kind of 4x experience to it? It seems like there aren't a ton of options out there.

I'm installing Anno 1800, and we won't even get to play it tonight. So I wonder aloud, are there other options that are slimmer, fun to co-op build, maybe gang up against crappy AI that we nerf, and grow tobacco or volatile motes or something in-between?

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