The Talos Principle is about as normal a puzzle game as you can get, you can ignore the story bits if you want. Just go through the levels in a numerical order

The Talos Principle is about as normal a puzzle game as you can get, you can ignore the story bits if you want. Just go through the levels in a numerical order pretty much. The progression might be a bit slow in the start and middle, but the puzzles themselves were fun to solve for me (definitely not contrived), and the story and ending were satisfying. Much the same as Portal/Quell games. The Witness is part normal puzzle game and part more like Myst/Riven where you really have to dig deeper to find the answer. In a way they're about as diagetic as you can get, but some of that digging deeper can be a chore and wasn't fun for me, so I stopped playing The Witness after finding the normal ending and enjoyed playing it up to that point. I'd like to pickup the Outer Wilds though, and I like a balance of adventure/puzzles within games too. I suppose environmental puzzle games really have to click for me to enjoy them.