The Forgotten City, My Summer Car, Quantic Dream's games, Supermassive's games, Cloudpunks, Mind Scanners, Sable, Obduction, Superliminal, Eastward, Beautiful Desolation, Dropsy, If On A Winter's Night Four Travelers, Desert Child, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, Legend of Hand, Draugen, Felix The Reaper, Firewatch, The Talos Principle, The Witness
I am interepreting great visuals broadly to include great art direction, but there are some very nice looking realistic 3D games in that list
Some other ones that I don't particularly care for but that many people love: Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, Return of the Obra Dinn
There are also many great games that feature combat as a core mechanic but are no more "about it" than The Odyssey or The Seven Samurai are. For example: Yakuza 0, Kenshi, INSOMNIA: The Ark, Vampyr, Valakas Story, Pathologic 2, Ghost of a Tale, A Plague Tale
I am interepreting great visuals broadly to include great art direction, but there are some very nice looking realistic 3D games in that list
Some other ones that I don't particularly care for but that many people love: Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, Return of the Obra Dinn
There are also many great games that feature combat as a core mechanic but are no more "about it" than The Odyssey or The Seven Samurai are. For example: Yakuza 0, Kenshi, INSOMNIA: The Ark, Vampyr, Valakas Story, Pathologic 2, Ghost of a Tale, A Plague Tale