Depending on your preference this can mean a lot. Do you like style of Ori and the Blind Forest, the disneylike style of Kena, or the the atmosphere of inside?
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Superhot was a really rad game style, highly recommend!! Easy to pick up for some quick downtime sessions
I don’t have the words to do it justice, but I’ve heard the art style described as “Silk Punk”, and it takes obvious inspiration from the manga/anime “Blame!” where a future megacity has grown completely out of control. It creates a dark, oppressive and, well, bleak science-fantasy world where all structures utterly dwarf the player and make you feel insignificant and lost as you traverse it.
The game itself is unfortunately quite janky in a number of ways (it’s a very ambitious game made by a tiny team of three people), though it has been improved tremendously since launch. But the atmosphere alone made me stick with it even when it was in much rougher shape than it is now.
Also, Scorn. H.R. Giger-esque biomechanical world, into which you are dropped without any context and left to puzzle your way to the end. Unfortunately it stumbles in terms of gameplay when it tries to be a shooter too, which it doesn’t do a very good job at. Still, a very memorable experience, and short enough that I would recommend it to anybody who enjoys the grotesque and doesn’t mind body horror.
I’m a fan of Valheim’s pixel art style. Strolling through meadows makes me feel calm