After hating on the Outer Worlds, another Sci-Fi game to try:
Outcast: A New Beginning, which is actually a continuation of the original 1999 Outcast.
Basically Avatar (although the setting predates the movie by a decade) and instead of glum and depressing like the Outer Worlds, it's pretty and goofy.
The silly dialogue with the natives has me chuckling at times, the combat is simple fun and the jet pack for flying and gliding around makes getting places enjoyable, even if it is to kill 3 rats or some alien crab equivalent.
Plus the tropical island planet is much prettier and colourful and nobody thought to use a bloody desaturation filter.
Simple fun to jump in and relax.









