The standout example of this for me would be Qube. I was having a bit of a difficult time when I first bought the game and that soundtrack lured me in and getting through to the end just became a total compulsion. I was a lot calmer by the time it was over, too.

Kairo had a bit of a similar effect on me, except that the very last jump in the whole game just would not work, spoiling the zen. Quantum Conundrum also got a full playthrough in one sitting but tbh I think that was because I wasn’t enthusiastic about coming back to it another day.

I kind of don’t want to be excited about it because a lot of component parts of the game seem to exist in other games, plus I don’t really play that many Bethesda games, but by the time they got around to “oh yeah and here is a mecha ship design” it was pretty clear that I was going to end up buying a copy of this weird No Kerbal’s Dangerous Sky crossover thingy.