Disco Elysium

An isometric role-playing game with no combat whatsoever. You are a detective in Revachol, a city still living in the wreckage of a failed revolution, and you wake in a trashed hostel room with no name, no memory and a body in the tree outside. The murder is real and solvable, but the actual system is your own mind: twenty-four skills — Logic, Empathy, Inland Empire, Electrochemistry — are voices that interrupt, argue, lie to you and occasionally offer something brilliant. Levelling a skill makes it louder rather than simply better, so a character built for intuition genuinely perceives a different world than one built for reason. Failed dice rolls open content instead of closing it, which is rarer than it sounds. ZA/UM wrapped it in oil-painted backdrops and a script long enough to fill several novels, and it won most of the awards going in 2019. The Final Cut added full voice acting for every line and a set of political-vision quests that force you to actually commit to whatever ideology you have been mouthing.