I'm torn between Death Stranding and Outer Wilds.
I'm about 30ish hours into Death Stranding and still on Chapter 5, and I love it to pieces so far. But I am going to need to see the rest of the story first to fully decide how I feel about it. I'm really loving the world and strand mechanic, but I feel like the cinematic bombasity is not quite there yet. The opening was incredible, but there are long droughts without any real character interaction. That being said if the second half of the game is denser on the storytelling than I won't mind it a bit.
Outer Wilds was pure perfection to me. It set out with a very specific goal, and really became the best version of it's vision. The story, planet interactions, and attention to detail we're so expertly crafted on what was obviously a tiny production it's just incredible and inspiring imo. Solving the Quantum Moon puzzle for the first time was one of the coolest feeling things I've done in a video game.