The most visually beautiful game I’ve played recently is Satisfactory. It’s a first-person logistics/manufacturing game. The landscapes are almost too beautiful to fill with machinery and black smoke.

In addition to the visuals the sound design is great. Alien creatures hiss or screech or click and the sound makes the hair on your neck stand up. The fuel generators sound just like huge diesels running at full speed against a load. The trucks run by, engines clattering and turbocharger screaming. Each machine you build has it’s own noise. Amd every thing done in the game by your charachter feels like it has weight. Switches click and slam shut loudly. Levers sound like they’re attached to something. By the time you’ve got a decent production line set up, it sounds like a mechanical symphony.