I didn’t downvote but I disagree. It is nice to be able to roleplay your own character but I also like having well written established characters

Not as good as the examples you listed but subnautica imo

In case you haven’t heard of it, the scrubs rewatch podcast with Zach braff and Donald faison is pretty great and has a lot of behind the scenes info

Because emoting gave you gravity damage resistance for some reason and people were surviving crazy heights when emoting

Maybe cheating a bit but there are several genres of games that are named after the games that popularized their mechanics such as roguelike/roguelite, souls-like, metroidvania