Honestly? Escape from Tarkov.
I understand what it's going for on paper. The tension, the risk, the realism. But every time I watch someone play it looks like 45 minutes of cautious walking followed by dying to someone they never saw in a direction they couldn't predict.
Maybe I'm just not built for it.
Dredge if you haven't touched it yet ... fishing but deeply unsettling in the best way. Short, cheap, stays with you.
Tunic if you want something that genuinely respects your intelligence. Feels like Zelda until it doesn't.
And if you're okay with losing sleep, Noita. Just go in blind.
Warhorse buying and restoring the actual castle from KCD is the most on-brand thing a studio has ever done. That's a team that genuinely gives a shit about what they're making. The Middle-earth RPG being described as a "living world" is doing a lot of heavy lifting though ... every studio says that. But if anyone can actually deliver it after KCD2, it's probably them. And yeah, Bethesda announcing Skyrim again in 3, 2, 1...
Half these "sold out" stories don't tell you if it was 500 units or 50. Supply was already a mess before the price hike ... AI ate the RAM market and now everything downstream pays for it. The device is great, the timing is just bad.