IrrelevantPuppy

This probably doesn’t help you, unless you happen to have VR. But there’s a game called Jet island. You travel on a hover board, equipped with arm jets and grappling hooks. You fight a series of colossal machine bosses, some big enough to be inside of. The bosses are so big that they’re environments.

I had a lot of fun with Kingdom Two Crowns

Games can get away with bad stories because sometimes it’s more about the gameplay. But games in no way inherently have bad storytelling.