PC Gaming

If you enjoyed Gris and Neva, you may enjoy Journey. It is a similarly artsy experience and an almost certain inspiration for Gris.

The Horizon series (zero dawn, forbidden west) seems to fit your favourites very well and is also a PS series. The storytelling of the first game is absolurely exquisite imo

If you enjoyed Portal I can't imagine a world where you don't enjoy The Talos Principle, they remastered the first game and theres also a sequel. Both jaw droppingly beautiful, engaging stories, lovely puzzles.

I can't help but recommend Tunic. The combat is solid and simple, puzzles are great, and hoo boy does it keep on giving.

You'd probably get a kick out of Hellblade given the games you enjoy.

If you enjoy DMC you'll probably love Hi-Fi Rush, super stylish and deep combat system that will reward you similarly to DMC

Of you say you like the PS games, maybe Ghost of Tsushima?

The single-player campaign of Titanfall 2 is incredible. Short and sweet (about 6-8 hours), super fun parkour system and cool story to play. I highly to recommend to pick it up when on sale.

Outer Wilds. Greatest game of all time. It's a bit more puzzle and story focused than most of these, but you have portal and GRIS and I would recommend Outer Wilds to pretty much anyone.

Surprised no one mentioned the Batman Arkham games or Tomb Raider reboot trilogy (2013-2018). Both are third person action games with simple, but enjoyable upgrade elements.

Arkham Asylum may feel a bit dated, but Arkham City and Knight should still feel pretty fresh. And I think the Tomb Raider games hold up well.

I also suspect you've played them, but the Uncharted series is also great.

Other mentions that fit the third person, decent-good story, and fast/fun action:

• Sunset Overdrive
• Hi-fi Rush (rhythm game)
• Bayonetta Series (DMC like series)
• Nier series
• Kena Bridge of Spirits
• Just Cause Series (I think the stories are a little weak for this series, more about sandbox play).
• Infamous series (superhero themed 3rd person action game made by the same people who made Spiderman)

Prey might be your kinda jam. I sure liked it.

Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor could be fun in the third-person power fantasy way. :)

Third Person:

Mad Max

Warframe (F2P MMO)

First Person:

Mirror's Edge

Cyberpunk 2077

STALKER series

Dying Light 1/2

Gunfire Reborn

Prey

Dishonored

Vampire Hunters (kind of an FPS version of Vampire Survivors)

Surprised not to see Horizon Zero Dawn/ Forbidden West on this list! Have you played them?

Just in case you haven't played it, the first SUPERHOT is, IMO, quite a bit better than the second, so I'll toss that in there.

As a wilder card, I'll suggest the Batman Arkham games. I think Arkham City is probably the most well-regarded of them.

since balatro is on your list: Slay the Spire

What I love: Primarily story-driven, third-person, high-fidelity, single-player games with solid fighting characteristics with simple upgrade paths.

There's enough in here aside from simple upgrade paths that I think you should try Elden Ring. Just remember if you run into something that's too hard go in a different direction.

An oldie but a goodie: Rogue Trooper

Very fun 3rd person shooter based on the rogue trooper comics from 2000AD. It doesn't overstay its welcome, has solid gameplay, and holds up well overall. I think it's available on GoG.

Synthetik

You seem to like Character Action Games so why not give the Ninja Gaiden series a go? You can emulate Ninja Gaiden Black for free on Xemu and even enjoy using save states to save yourself some frustration with unnecessary runbacks (this was removed in later entries). I think NGB is an all time classic, although it leans a little bit more into the adventure game style than later titles, that are pure action. You have some exploration, platforming and even an almost Metroidvania-like hub area you backtrack back and forth through and unlock new branches of.

Or if you want something more modern and pure high octane action you can start with Ninja Gaiden 4. More free flowing combos as opposed to specific fighting-game style strings like in previous games, but still fun. I'm only a few chapters deep but any fan of DMC or CAGs in general would enjoy it I think.

I just picked up Just Cause 3 for like 2.99 on a steam sale and have been no-lifing it since

The Yakuza series checks most of those boxes, highly recommended. Start with Yakuza Zero.

Not on PC, but if you can find discs for them, maybe the rest of the God of War games?

Sounds like you dislike soulslikes.

Dishonored, or maybe Deathloop? Deathloops a bit more complicated but dishonored should prep you for it. They share a lot of the same abilities, the world is just laid out different in deathloop.

Wolfenstein New Order you’re the one man army BJ Blazkowicz, mowing down nazis through linear levels. Run and gun for the most part, with story between levels.

2016 doom or doom eternal

DnD does have a lot of stats but Baldurs Gate 3 makes it fun, and it has everything else you’re looking for. I would give it a shot even if you’re stats averse

Stardew Valley. No greater power fantasy than owning a piece of productive land

Not sure if Cyberpunk 2077 counts as corporate trash. But the main quests are a pretty good story. Combat is fun. There are upgrade trees that are a bit more complicated than CONTROL.

And as for “power fantasy” if being able to solo an entire megacorp army and win isn’t power fantasy idk what is.

There are also lots of side quests that themselves are pretty good stand alone stories.

If you're okay with Ubisoft, Watchdogs 1 & 2 are fun for third person shooters. First one gives you a lot of options to enter combat, you carry all weapons on you (no "weapon loadout" selection really).

Favorite feature of both games is the in-game radio, you can just listen to music and wander around the world

https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games