Immersive Sims, Dungeon Crawls, Soulslikes, Metroidvanias, Blobbers, Action RPGs, Zeldalikes, Stealth, Survival Horror--anything which forgoes passive overworlds--dialogue, fetch quests, so forth; and emphasizes aggressive, active environments focusing largely on traps, puzzles, exploration, combat. I favor unscripted, emergent gameplay focused largely on active verbs and diegetic, interacting verbsets; such as arrows, internally, and consistently sticking in wood; yet not in metal; nor in stone, bricks, mortar; also, the lifebar on the back of the lead to Dead Space--so less AI-as-clutter, more design-into-narrative, self-expressive verbing, self-actualizing approach; as opposed to Nu-Thief & Sekiro's approach to monitor clutter: of highlighting every rappeleable surface with a glowing moron indicator--thus, AI clutter, and the illusion-of-choice; not logically, internally consistent gameplay mechanics, with logical lead-ins breadcrumbed into the narrative as naturally as the wordless escape from the dungeon in Dark Souls was pre-verbal, without the superfluous narrative of saving some king-or-other--or I'd have been 120 hours meditating, contemplating my bellybutton, in Skyrim; as well as the characteristic devils of bubble-AI and kiddie-pool level marketeer monopolized player agency, glued-down and stapled from creative "anarchy"--or without rulers, not rules; and thus, without limits. This espressive "creative agency;" along with "self-actualized verbing" and... well... the lack of any nailed-down negligence concerning the ripple, or domino, or butterfly effect self-exponentiating into unscripted anarchy; thus, functionally, robbing a rainbow of all color except a gradient, grayscale rainbow--sanitized of all uncontrolleable, spontaneous self-exponentiation; along with any creative, lateral, detailed, interacting, synchronized, synergetic--if probable--exploration; minus the one-way, ball-of-yarn like dungeon design of hall-like areas--not even labyrinths--much less mazes; void of traps, puzzles, hazards, reactive physics, emergent physics, destructibility, unscripted interactions, water-cooler moments, and other nu-physics and potentially interacting synergized core gameplay loop of three-to-four solid interacting core systems polished to perfection--inward or outward, in renditions--depending upon budget--as with Looking Glass Studios; or the "arena-like," ecotoplasmic blobs Bioware homogenously manufactures, last I checked--post their Black Isle phase...? Planescape, Bloodlines, Shadowrun, Witcher, Disco Elysium, anything by Chris Avellone; and, alas, anything by Looking Glass Studios! RIP! Also, props to Ultima, Wizardry, Might & Magic, as well as a few token 4x games such as Tactical RPGs/Wargames, and X-Com, and Jagged Alliance for existing; along with more interesting variations--and atmospheric--such as survival-horror and stealth; with increasingly non-linear exploration and gameplay, and thus more tinkering, more replay value-per-inch, or per-metric. Also, I believe all such games--in active environments, or dungeons--should merely be titled 'dungeon crawls,' with the rest labeled as subgenres, or subcategories, thereof: to enable branching innovation, and allow more room for players to experiment within gameplay parameters that forego fetch-quests; bubble AI; and passive, non-reactive, towns & dialogue; as well as pedestrian, static, fed-ex, glued-down, overly-stapled overworlds--minus any player agency; and lacking any reactive, defining environments--densely packed with hidden easter eggs and cryptic, hidden, non-didactic secrets; as well as cleverly-concealed, subtly-disguised zones; and buried, gated, guarded, sub-areas--all of which are enigmatically engineered and carefully hidden: thus discovering--and finding--all of the above is its own singular reward, for both careful and detailed cross-examination; as well as evading or navigating environmental hazards and obstacles; and cautious, as well as dangerous, exploration--which ties-in progress with player agency; and carefully-nuanced observation that rewards player curiosity; intrigue; and detailed, astute investigation with compensation, rewards, and minute discoveries! Also--creative metaphors, nested analogies, and non-verbal archetypal symbolism are all welcome! Show, don't tell! Avoid riding cliches! Actions speak louder than words! Also, contextually, I appreciate randomized riddles; and/or randomized and procedural environments, along with % chance-of-spawning set-pieces, NPCs, areas, subareas, items, hazards, bosses, puzzles, encounters, quests, riddles, traps, and other variables. Along with varying the metagame with added elements, and progressions, which keep gameplay fresh.