video game-y video games with non terrible writing

Each sentence sounds like you're asking for a different thing. You listed Rocket League which doesn't have dialogue at all as a good example, in which case anything that is "pure gameplay" could qualify and there are thousands of good games to choose from.

You asked for "non terrible writing" which implies you want it to have decent to good writing, but now I can't tell if you meant "doesn't have terrible writing", which is a different thing