Basically story-oriented role playing games, instead of dress-your-virtual-doll-and-find-the-jumbo-potatoes "RPGs".
Like for fuck sakes, I have way more fun reading a totally rail-roaded choose-your-adventure book game than with GOTY shits.
Or please point me at your favorite choose-your-adventure mobile-books, I love them. Or good AI-DMs, I tried one once and didn't really like it.
No, I can't join an IRL TTRPG group cuz where I live :cri: and I don't like to talk to my computer either.
Edit: Dang, thank you all!
The old Black Isle games like Baldurs gate, Planescape et al.
I'd like to shout out Heaven's Vault, which is more of an adventure game, but has a lot of the same vibes, cool dialogue/archeology twist and a pictographic language you need to decode in a semi-realistic way.
Similarly, I think you'll like The Longest Journey series as well.
Yeah, I'd say Planescape is the closest to Disco Elysium that I can think of. Technically it's a D&D game where you build your character and fight monsters and stuff, but that's really just an excuse for a game about the nature of the self with a 600,000 word script.
I had totally forgotten about The Longest Journey games! I loved those but know no one else who has even heard of them.