Kitty Island Adventure might be right up your ally based on your temperament about the game.
“Shut the hell up simulator”
I heard thats a good one
When I take WoW breaks, I play Fallout
There is a settlement that needs your help. 
Just try a bunch of different stuff until you find something you like.
Might and Magic VI, VII, and VIII.
You can get them on GOG Galaxy for I think ~$20 in total for all 3.
They’re old singleplayer RPGs with about 40-50 hours to fully complete everything for each game (so 120-150 hours). They’re my literal favorite games and I find myself going back to play one or all of them once a year or every other year.
I’m sure its not the first, but the might and magic series games are some of the original D&D computer games.
Another suggestion, for really any game you play, create self imposed challenges to create replayability, especially if you really like the game.
One of my other favorites is the 2003 Hobbit game. I’ve played it through normally; increasing my health as little as possible; only using the walking stick; full completionist, collecting everything; (for games like Might and Magic) only playing with one character(It’s similar to Baldur’s Gate 3 where you have a party of characters, but I’ve forced myself to play with only 1 before); using no spells; not using save states (death is pretty punishing); no melee weapons and or no armor is what I’m doing next time I play.
I have literally so many more suggestions like Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue, Taz Wanted, Midtown Madness series (if you like racing games), but I’ll leave you with two more favorites
If you have a playstation, the Ratchet and Clank series, and the Sly Cooper series.
And again for self impossed challenge, try Ratchet and Clank only use one or 2 of the weapons and none of the others. Creating limitation to create unique playthrough experiences can add even more fun to things you didn’t know you could have more fun with.
Oh, and Outer Wilds. Hands down, incredible. Has pretty much zero replayability though, unless you hunt the steam achievement.
Undertale and Deltarune.
A bit late to the party, I was out of Game Time for a week and decided not to buy any because I wouldn’t be able to play for that week anyway so might as well save the money lol
My recommendation is Dead Estate. It’s a pretty fun game with a lot of personality 
If you want a tab targeting game like WoW but is more solo friendly nowadays and focused on story I’d say SWTOR. I gave that up after they screwed with the skill tree again but the story part of the game, especially the original stories, is very good. And you can make classes on the opposite side now so you can play a Jedi on Sith side but the story will still be the same stories as before and not say a Jedi’s story on the Sith side.
Return to Moria was fun solo though I wished my gaming buddies played it, which they don’t, because I could see that being a lot more fun. Nice progressive game and some Easter eggs about the Fellowship. I messed with the settings for a more chill, less being raided by enemies type game and enjoyed it.
Enshrouded was fun but again would be better with friends. Just got an update and new zone.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is good with lots of replay value.
Deep Rock Galactic used be my jam. Haven’t played in a while but that was the most fun I’ve ever had with randos. I played over 600 games with randos and only one ever had anyone I’d even call close to toxic. That is insane.
Other MMO type games include ESO and GW2. I’m waiting on PoE2 and will probably pick up the cheap EA pack since I never spent anything on the first game and the second looks so good and I want to support them. Good gaming companies are hard to find these days especially ones that aren’t solely focused on money.
Good luck
WoW is a good palette cleanser. Have you checked it out?
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I would say that’s a fair safe bet for my interests, though I have done a lot of the “major” releases… but definitely not all of them.
Generally not my sort of thing, to be honest.
Enjoyed a few in the past, but solely for the campaign & story.
Familiar with BG, but Icewind Dale gets thrown around a lot. Looks like a similar type of game from the first two BG games, but done by a different team? Or at least a different locale and storyline?
I’m still keeping tabs on this topic, and probably will continue to do so for a bit even after my time runs out in a week, so feel free to add any suggestions that strike your fancy.
That’s a curious one. Not sure if it’s something I’d dive into, but I can definitely agree that has a lot of personality from just the trailer alone.
I’d say, as a general rule, I’d probably lean away from tab-targeting at the moment. Not ruling it out entirely, but it does come with some baggage and reminders that I’d rather distance myself from at the moment.
I also gave SWTOR a quick try yesterday (it was free-to-play, after all)… and yeah, gameplay-wise it’s too similar to WoW and wasn’t doing much for me. Story-wise, it wasn’t jiving with me either; it felt more like caricatures than nuanced characters. Maybe because it was just the early game, but something didn’t feel right.
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Tears of the Kingdom, if you have a Switch. It feels like it’s endless when you first pick it up, but it does in fact have an end.
big rigs over the road racing. extreme racing action
Cyberpunk is a GG.
touching grass.
Eastshade… that will clean your pallet and open you up to new games REAL quick.
… no. Just no.
Not even to make a tractor-trailer phase through everything and destroy reality by going faster than lightspeed in reverse due to infinite negative acceleration.
… okay, I’ll admit some bile fascination. But it’s not worth spending money on.
There is no grass anymore. Just snow.
It’s the style of old-school JRPGs, and I’m generally fine with it being absent.
From what I’ve heard, Octopath is trying to evoke the same style, so that’d be apt.
Also, excellent Loud Howard impression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmxAfAXhAYk
Steam games that isn’t a mmo.
7 days to Die.
Subnauctica
Fallout 3-4
Elder Scrolls Morrowind through Skyrim.
Just got half life 2 for 2 bucks on steam and all the dishonoreds for 14 bucks. Havent played in ages and still geeat. Up to ravenholm. Never did ep 1 or ep 2 so some new content too.
Autumn sale right now so go wild man. All the oldies but goodies are super cheap
I think mass effect legendary edition is also sub 10?
I got an email the other day from “EvE” to consider coming back. Long time since I entered that little merry go round.
The nier games are really good.
If you want something brain dead, I play a lot of rocket league to kill time.
Cant go wrong with Baldurs Gate 3