What's a good videogame (story or gameplay) with out-of-this-world graphics?

Any of the Horizon games, genuinely some of the most beautiful games I have ever played. Zero Dawn has some downright beautiful winter environments. And while I’ve barely started Forbidden West, that game is a step up from the from the first game from the very first moment you get control of Aloy. So pretty! I recommend watching the trailers to see more

I can confirm this game is epic, as I have played it

Dyson Sphere Program is just visually stunning, and the factory building is pretty good too

The gameplay looks pretty meh, and the game is still in early access. I'll wait for it to exit this stage of development and then buy it.

I'm currently into 3D factory building games, so I would recommend Techtonica or Satisfactory.

Dyson Sphere Program has the dark fog now, and is gorgeous. You may wanna check it out

Satisfactory can be downright gorgeous, and it's a test of the hardware. I saw elsewhere in the thread your specs are a Ryzen 7700x, 32GB of RAM and a Radeon 7700xt. I have a similar built, but with a 7900GRE instead, I run Fedora KDE on this box. I'd be interested in comparing notes.

Notes?

I’d like to test my PC

Can it run Crysis?

Art style, graphical fidelity, or both? Cyberpunk 2077 is probably the best looking game to test your PC right now.

Cyberpunk is great, amazing story and visuals.
Graphical fidelity. A good art style is a plus too
- The game is absolutely gorgeous, so is the expansion. Start to finish it has an incredibly solid, interesting and suprsing plot. Just dripping with style and in universe asethic. You can really tell that the art department had a lot of fun with it.
- Cyberpunk 2077 fucking nailed the aesthetic it was going for - it has short comings but the visual immersion absolutely isn't one of them.
- Cyberpunk is good. Good game, great graphics.
  
  Red Dead Redemption 2 also has high fidelity.

Black Myth: Wukong

Every single second during a playthrough of this game had out of this world graphics.

Prepare to be amazed!

Such good memories! This is an amazing game!

Can it run Crysis?

So to update this meme to be real and current: Can it run Hunt Showdown 1896, with it's brand new Cryengine update. Spoiler alert, it's beautiful.

It also runs fabulously via Steam and Proton.
Probably, I have a Ryzen 7 7700x, SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT PULSE 12GB GPU and 32 gigs of RAM
- I'm not up to date with my computer components, but sounds impressive.
  
  I have to include that my comment was a joke. Not sure if you know the reference? Sorry in advance if you do.

Alan Wake 2 legit blurs the line when presenting a character; between film footage and digitizing the actor. Even the games environments blend in photographed and filmed objects. It's a masterpiece of a game, with beautiful graphics, and a fun and bonkers story.

I should be playable from Epic Games Store via Lutris or similar. Or from sailing the high seas.

Nah, I'm not going to deal with pirating it or the epic games store
- AW2 is DRM-free. I imagine it can be run completely independent of Epic. You’d need the store to purchase and download it but you could probably even uninstall the Epic app afterwards. I haven’t tested this though, so please don’t just take my word for it.

I don't know if it's Linux compatible but Elite Dangerous is absolutely beautiful and really sets a strong tone.

Have been playing it on linux since Horizons came out.

Don't know if it's top notch graphics, but it's pretty. Audio design is sublime.

The "ocean wide, one foot deep" thing is true. It's grindy and gets boring after a while, but it's still worth it. If you are a "chill" gamer, exploration and mining don't need grinding and shallowness doesn't affect them so much.
I loved this game before but ended up finding it kinda boring in the long run. It's definitely worth getting a flight stick to play, though. Learning to dock and do flips and such as I did was the funnest part by far. And when you jump, especially the first time, it gives you chills.
- If you've got a valve index or other high quality VR headset the immersion of that is ridiculous - especially with something like voice attack to handle the fiddly keyboard shortcuts that you don't want on your stick (like engaging the landing gear or the cargo scoop).