Anime like Reincarnated As A Dragon Hatchling

What I liked about it is:

-Everything takes place in the forest.

-Cute and lively pet/companion Black Lizard (though if she was a human/humanoid and capable of speech, I imagine she'd be semi-insufferable).

-Decent pacing, progression and enough action.

-Maybe it's because we don't see humans a lot, but the characters haven't been acting cringely anachronistic or particularly anime-tropey so far.

-Perhaps the setting might be invoking a nostalgia for something. Maybe something like pokemons or just other action non-humanoid shows from childhood. Or maybe it's the nostalgia for a kid's love for dinosaurs.

-It's neither too solitary, nor too crowded, leaving enough time and space for most actors to have some personality and weight.

I generally don't like the isekais and don't like the gameified environments even more. Though the stories can sometimes still be enjoyable despite that. Or sometimes maybe because of that, depending on the mood and the story.

Here with the whole evolution thing, the game-like setting might be rather fitting or at least doesn't feel particularly jarring and immersion breaking.

I also very much don't like when non-mages can contest mages. But I didn't mind it too much here. Maybe because MC isn't an outright mage and because everything in this world feels like it's magic in one form or another. Or maybe you also just give up to enjoy everything else.

I didn't like that MC is mindlessly simping for the human girl.

And his desire to be good and to be with humans feels a little weightless and out of the blue. His lack of ambition is also not to my taste.

Can you recommend me something with male MC and in a western setting based on this?

P.S. I watched the Re: Monster in the past. Didn't feel particularly captivated by it.