The last game where you felt "it".

I suppose I'm getting old and slowly losing interest in games. The last one I can think of was Furi from 2016. Brilliant fucking game. One of the few times where I pirated something and then bought it later.

I want to say Doom Eternal is up there but I need to replay it.
 
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Hollow Knight. It reminded me of being a kid playing through super metroid with my cousin on his SNES the first time. That feeling of being lost in some giant alien/mysterious place underground. Slowly discovering all the hidden secrets and being genuinely kind of freaked out at times about what you might find or what could be coming next.
 
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Shantae Half-Genie Hero. Played it not too long ago and was just sucked in by how solid of a game it was. It didn't feel clumsy like many modern platformers, the game itself really took me back to playing older games like it.
 
Wonder and excitement? I don't know.

We Happy Few, Prey and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey are some of the open world/semi-open world games that recently delighted me, top tier in my library. Far Cry: Primal was extremely good but it was too limited by its formula (you're always just Far Crying on cavemen) to quite make it into that trinity.

I was depressed at the time too, but there was a while when I could play Ancestors all night long into morning light.
 
Only 2 games have ever rustled my jimmies as described in the OP. The original arcade Punch Out!! and the original arcade Street Fighter 2. There have been plenty of fine games since, but none hooked me like those 2.
 
Killzone 2 on the PS3. The whole thing was an intense ride like I'd never experienced before. I played the multiplayer a ton, and it was the last game that had me genuinely excited for a sequel.
 
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