I just finished Return of the Obra Dinn. It's a relatively short indie game, it took me a dozen hours to finish it. It's an amazing little origami of a game and very unique in style and content. You investigate the deaths of sixty people on a ghost ship in 1807, and in so doing, body after body, you reconstruct the full story of their doomed cruise. I think the star of the show is the ship itself, explored through multiple vignettes of daily life in the age of sail.
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The art style is lovely. What is it, though? FPS? Exploration?
There's no combat. You explore the ship and when you find a body, you use a magic watch to 'see' the instant of death, in stop motion. But once you're in that moment, you can look around: see who or what killed him, who else was present, and what was happening in the meantime in the immediate vicinity of the death. So it's a puzzle game of sorts; to see the full picture and find your answers you have to follow all the clues hidden in plain sight through all the death scenes.