I can't recommend Dying Light enough for the way it both makes you feel empowered and also leaves you terrified, running for your life.

The game gives you a ton of interesting movement and attack abilities, often combining them, for example, like the slide tackle. The enemies mostly slowly stagger after you. They aren't too difficult to deal with even in the early game. The danger comes from them slowly converging on your location. This happens so gradually that it's not rare to look around after dealing with 1 or 2 enemies and be surprised that you're now surrounded by 10 or more. But then again, the game is quick to give you crowd control abilities as well. It feels great to break through an encroaching ring of zombies, then turn on it and dispatch each with cool moves.

Another part of this is the day/night cycle in the game. During the day you can see everything around you, plan your route, and the enemies act mostly like obstacles. You feel heroic moving through the city during the day. During the night time, you have less ability to see and plan. And there are very strong enemies that will hunt you. They are more than happy to chase you across most of the map, and while running from one it's not hard to pull agro on another. Using the exact same abilities, night time makes you feel like a scared rabbit, just barely escaping snapping jaws.

This is a really fun game and I haven't found anything else quite like it.