Right now, the ones that stand out to me are SLARPG and Tunic. I want to hear other people's faves.

The novelty of playing a text-based game with almost no audio and extremely little graphics in 2025 made The Amateur Deity Society alright for me. Something cute about it, and the sequences with the dreamer were pretty cool. There are better games in that genre from years ago, and I wish that traversing pages was instantaneous since my reading has gotten faster these days. But if you're not a super advanced reader or haven't been reading books lately, you should give it a go. 

https://cant-get-enough-games.itch.io/the-old-gentleman

mechanics are pretty simple but good atmosphere. short and sweet so it doesn't wear out its welcome. you are on a sub stranded at the bottom of the ocean. your diver buddy is with you outside the sub and he can collect parts. but there's this...thing out there. send pings and morse code to your diver and he can collect parts, tell the diver to avoid the...whatever it is, and fix the sub. turns out you learn morse code pretty fast when you see a monster slowly heading towards your only hope of survival. does save checkpoints so you don't feel angry to have to waste time because you did 3 dots instead of two by accident.