yeah, there is a bunch of games i can cite that expanded my mind... the original Dune game, a number of text based adventures i played in highschool, Half Life 2, Stalker series, The Long Dark, Dying Light, the Tomb Raider reboot (those were especially illuminating).

i didn't really play much games between 1994 and 2005, HL2 was the thing that got me into it again.