Outer Wilds (2019)

Its ending is earned with nothing but what you've understood. There are no upgrades, levels or gear: the sun explodes 22 minutes into every loop, you wake by the same campfire, and only knowledge survives, kept in your ship's log. You fly a rickety ship between small handmade planets, reading the ruins of a vanished people, and the final journey lands hardest on players who followed their own hunches rather than a guide, so stay off forums. Expect fiddly piloting and the odd loop lost to a careless landing. The base game tells a complete story; the Echoes of the Eye expansion can wait.