Sable (2021)

A ruined spaceship on the horizon is reason enough to turn your hoverbike around. Sable gives its desert an appealing sense of scale, then fills the journey with climbers, settlements and clues to an older world. There is no combat or damage system pushing you onwards. Finding a way up still involves stamina and sometimes awkward ledges, while the open structure expects you to choose your own direction rather than follow a tightly managed itinerary.