maxy

If you like puzzles, there is also fillets! Oldie but goodie.

apt install fillets-ng

Oh now you make me want to play planescape torment again. Really good writing. It always felt like the dialogs were about you and the questions you have, and immediately relevant to what happens next in the game.

I’m maybe a third through disco elysium, but I found the writing went off-rails too often for my taste, sometimes disconnected with your quest or what happens next. It’s still very well written, maybe just not my “book”. But now I have just derailed this thread from the original topic completely, so who am I to judge.

From the Luanti/Minetest games, I also like Exile very much.

It is a bit hard and nerdy (you’ll have to read the PDF guide/tutorial as you progress), but I found it oddly calming. I recommend single-player only.

In contrast to other Luanti/Minecraft-Like games, in Exile it feels very rewarding just to have found shelter from a storm and a cozy fire going, after you were on the edge of collapsing from exhaustion. Though you’re almost certainly out of food and it would be dangerous to go out looking before the storm passes, you’re not quite dying yet and you have time to make your mud hole a bit more cozy. (It’s not a good game if you want to build huge creative castles, but you’ll need to build and improve your home a bit.)

Battle for Wesnoth. It’s a fantasy-themed turn-based strategy.

Though I haven’t played it recently, I have some very good memories. It teaches you gambling and probability (especially on small multiplayer maps), and you develop feeling for the difference between 40% chance to hit and 30%.

The single-player campaigns are nice too. The one that I have in especially good memory is “Under The Burning Suns”, which made a few creative and artistic changes to the game. It shouldn’t be the first campaign you play, but it can be the second.