One sandbox that recently grabbed me was in Automation: The Car Tycoon game. You can make custom cars and engines and export them to BeamNG and I got pretty into that and made my first ever mod or two.

Zelda Minish cap

Returnal. I went hard for a few weeks working those biomes.

I am currently going down the rabbit hole of sim racing. It's dangerous, and I'm trying my best not to drop tons of money into it.

The Binding of Isaac

Far Cry 5

Right now for me, that's Persona 3 Portable. These games have their issues, but the stories really make you care about the characters!

Postal Brain Damaged. If you like boomer shooters,

It's got charming art and level designs, satisfying weapons, and a whole lot of irreverence.

I'm out of the daydreaming phase because I've beaten it a few times, but it's still my comfort food game of choice.

I wanted Anno 1800 to be this but man, the income fluctuations are fuckin uncontrollable

League of Legends. Please send help.

HoloCure out of all things. It's a more advanced Vampire Survivors clone centered around HoloLive vtubers. Being so simple yet cute and addictive is what made me hooked. Even now I still play once in a while on my breaks, althought there is nothing to surprise me left in this game.

Previous to that, I remember being absolutely blown out by Fallout 1. I'm young enough not to be on the wave of games of that era and the game design amazed me. I look forward to playing the 2nd game fo the series but I will have to do some tinkering since I'm Linux-only now.

Dirt Rally 2.0 with Force feedback wheel and pedals.

Ugh, I just can't get enough of it. Who needs crack when you have sim racing?

Signalis. Which is weird, its over in 10 hours but I got hooked on the fandom crack until recently.

Revs. (1985 ish)

Chucky Egg (around the same time).

RDR2

The Coffin Of Andy And Leyley

... please don't judge me