80% Skyrim, 40% Elden Ring. Dark fantasy, excellent combat with a range of builds and options, powerful storylines, and most of all deep ludonarrative consonance (why and how is spoilers, but I'll just say there's excellent thematic resonance between the main quest, the side quests, and the decisions you make as a player). You meet a complicated world, and it will likely change you. Very strongly recommended. After I finish my first playthrough I'm going to do my second.

The only caveat is that it's buggy, like you'd expect a game with a substantial Skyrim influence to be. I'm playing it very soon after it was released: I expect it to smooth out over time, and the devs have done good work giving you ways to fix things if something goes wrong (shoutout to the unsticking button!).

80% Skyrim, 40% Elden Ring. Dark fantasy, excellent combat with a range of builds and options, powerful storylines, and most of all deep ludonarrative consonance (why and how is spoilers, but I'll just say there's excellent thematic resonance between the main quest, the side quests, and the decisions you make as a player). You meet a complicated world, and it will likely change you. Very strongly recommended. After I finish my first playthrough I'm going to do my second. The only caveat is that it's buggy, like you'd expect a game with a substantial Skyrim influence to be. I'm playing it very soon after it was released: I expect it to smooth out over time, and the devs have done good work giving you ways to fix things if something goes wrong (shoutout to the unsticking button!).