Thanks for the really thoughtful comment! You make all three sound extremely intriguing.

I was unaware that any of the Halo games had much of a story at all! I've always just imagined them as the present incarnation of Unreal Tournament, i.e. built primarily for competitive multiplayer. I'd have expected the art direction to be, uh, perfunctory. Shame on me.

The thing that I dislike about metroidvanias, which is that I get hopelessly disoriented, could indeed work in favor of a horror game. I'm very interested in this one now, and as a fortysomething gamer I love the idea of a Gameboy title.

I picked up Frostpunk during the Epic giveaway but haven't dived in yet. Thank you for the specific description---it'll make it easier to go in with the proper expectation for suspense!