Just Cause 3 is great fun.

I recently picked up Metro Exodus and it's been a great experience.

God of War is OK,looks nice but felt a bit constrained and formulaic.

I liked spiderman and death stranding is also pretty nice although it's big and kinda slow

Satisfactory made me late for work the first week I played it

If you want something where you can just unwind & chill, look into the Slime Rancher games.

Can say with almost certainty that you'd love Planet Crafter. Think subnautica except you're terraforming a planet. Overwhelmingly positive reviews and I could not put it down

Enjoying Factory Town at the mo, a little chill automation game with a surprising level of complexity.

Factorio 2 is also fantastic if this is a genre you enjoy.

Space Marine 2 has a crazy 4k texture pack that looks amazing. But playing Space Marine 2 over the original is a task enough on its own.

Honestly your rig would handle VR dogfighting in Elite Dangerous gloriously. But that would require hotas controllers and a vr headset but its so fun.

I think theres a crazy texture pack for the master chief collection out there somewhere.

Hollow Knight

Dishonored is pretty good, although not truly an open world, there are side quests and areas to discover in each mission

Cruelty squad, balatro, broforce, yakuza games, ghostwire tokyo, gta 4, deep rock galactic, risk of rain 2, binding of issac are some of my personal reccomendations

If you want the most extensive, expansive, awesome emergent story base building game out there, there's of course Dwarf Fortress. You can download it right off the devs, where it's free but takes a PhD to begin to make sense of the UI. Or you can buy it on Steam, where it will cost you a little bit, but thanks to massive UI improvements, it's actually playable by regular people.

I've been playing V Rising in the last few days and it's a very good mix of survival, open world, exciting combat and a bit of designing your own castle.

Even more fun if you can play it with friends (though it's a bit more classic with servers: You'll have to find a public one to play on or host / rent your own).

But you can also just play it single player locally.

Great game though, I'd recommend it fully!

Sable is very breath of the wild adjacent, and quite beautiful. Lots of secrets to discover.

Dread Delusion

Open World, meaningful (and hard choices), excellent writing. It's the best game I've played in recent years. It can also run on a potatoe, but that shouldn't be a problem for you. :)

Probably some stigma associated with it but Genshin Impact is kind of in the vein of Breath of the Wild with the open world exploration and puzzle solving. Tons of story arcs, and they are pretty dang good. While it's not offline, it's not multiplayer unless you want it to be.

The Long Dark? Offline single player survival in the postapocalyptic Canadian wildernis. There is a survival mode in which you can freely explore, but also a story mode and several challenges. In my opinion an extremely beautiful game and on the higher difficulties also extremly challenging.

i would recommend titanfall 2, its a masterpiece

Judging from your tastes, I think you would enjoy dragons dogma 2. Be aware that the engine is rather... unoptimized, so there are performance slowdowns in towns and densely populated areas, but I've never dipped below 40fps on my rig which has slightly worse specs than yours. It can be a bit finicky to get working on Linux, depending on your distro. I'm on nixos and was experience graphics driver crashes pretty regularly until I swapped to amdvlk and swapping to the latest proton GE. Once you get the game working though, it's a lot of fun and definitely worth the hassle! I'd describe it as baldur's gate 3, but an action RPG instead of turn based, and therefore it feels much more free and open to me. You should also be aware that the game is pretty punishing. No save slots and rolling back is hard if you mess something up, and minor enemies can really ruin your day if you're not paying attention. It's probably one of the most "realistic" fantasy games I've ever played in that regard.

These are some suggestions for those little moments when you want a little break between games 😄

Tiny Glade - little diorama building game. I like playing this one when I don't have enough time for a full mission or quest in whatever game I'm playing, or I'm waiting for my buddies to get online.

Potion Craft: Alchemy Simulator - another cute little game. The NPCs make this one fun. You get visitors from other games coming to your shop to stock up on potions. Devs just did a big 2.0 update, and added more challenges and content. I played on super easy explorer mode and 100%ed the achievements in 52 in game days. I highly recommend this game! Another great one to play during in-between and waiting times, but also very easy to get sucked into 🧪