Mac user - new gamer using Steam. What to do?

Hey gamers!

I’m 46 and I haven’t really played video games for at least 15 years and that was to play GTA San Andreas. And before that it was Soul Blade and Final Fantasy three (US).

So I’m trying to play catch up. I wanna try games like Bioshock, Borderlands, Skyrim, Star Wars games and some games that are sequels to movies like Ghostbusters and Alien Isolation.

I’m not really interested in MMO games. Just good stories I can play through at night when the kids and wife are asleep and I don’t feel like making beats or writing.

So two questions:

1 - Recommend your favorites!

2 - what’s a good budget way to get set up to play? Steam deck? Buy someone’s old gamer PC? Is there an IOS hack for someone like me who edits video part time so I have 64 gb of RAM? I’d like to play on my projector too… if anyone has experience with that.