Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Hot take first- Rogue Trader is better than BG3, it just lacks the overall production value. Without spoilers- Rogue Trader is one of the most, if not the most reactive RPG I've ever played. Your choices through out the story and events that unfold are very important to the narrative. Every dialog choice is tracked behind the scenes, causing an insane amount of variety and small variations. Just be ready to read a lot. Sadly not everything is voice acted in-game. Exploration consists of exploring an overworld map, going from system to system scanning planets for resources and chasing rumors. You'll come across a lot of roleplay events and smaller PoI's to explore while doing this, but the bulk of the game is story driven through the main, side and companion quests. The companions are all very interesting- all of them have a personal story, react to what's going on around them, tons of depth in general with a great selection of both unique and different classes. Mechanically it's a very satisfying CRPG to play with tons of build variety. You get to pick an Origin and Archetype at character creation. Origins offering unique perks that lean into different kinds of playstyles and roleplay options, while Archetypes act as your standard classes of other CRPGs. Each Archetype offers a different variety of secondary Archetypes to pick from at level 17 creating a huge variety of combinations when you take into account Origin/Tier 1/Tier 2 choices (An example from my Dogmatic for The Empire playthrough. I did a Psyker/Soldier/Arch-Militant gunslinging wizard basically). Itemisation is peak- there are items supporting so many different kinds of playstyles. The newly introduced Augmentation system adds even more depth to this. In true owlcat fashion you have a couple of mini-games- in Rogue Trader those are ship combat and colony management. Colony management is pretty straight forward. As you adventure the Expanse you find resources- use those resources to upgrade colonies for various stat bonus/items/refreshing consumables. There will be tons of little events that come up requiring you to make choices for both roleplay and mechaniacl strength. Ship comabt is probably a love it or hate it mechanic. It's basically it's own turn based combat system. Your ship is basically it's own party member, you level it up, equip it with stuff, get talents etc. Overall, if you like CRPG's with tons of depth, world building, lore, stasfying buildcrafting and you don't mind the lower production value (not as many flashy cutscenes and a lot of reading)- Rogue Trader is an absolute gem. One of the best showing of what Owlcat does, and probably the best 40k game ever made.