Another World was different in that it was carefully made to not blit too many polygon scanlines over the background. In that way, it had more in common with the Sierra/Lucasarts adventure games of the day.
In terms of gameplay, Flashback or Prince of Persia are probably the most similar.
But nothing really matches the art style other than 2016's Hyperlight Drifter, which is excellent.
Formula 1 Grand Prix, 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLVkS7TMl9I
And Grand Prix, 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4fC9CAjJPE
Gunship, 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZUc0d8ol8
Mechwarrior, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuxySqjb5X8
Although to be fair, I played these games on an XT with monochrome Hercules CGA emulation at 10 fps, so I don't know what they were supposed to run like on a computer modern enough to have EGA or VGA.
Weirdly, Return of the Obra Dinn captures that 3D CGA emulation motif in a way I never expected to see.
The sound wasn't ahead of its day, but it was still quite good, even with the PC speaker rendering music, alien language, and effects in a better-than-average rendition. Nobody had high expectations for PC-speaker output.
Only a few years after its release, it was sad to look back and not find that any new action games using similar methods. Did I miss any good knock-offs over the next few years of its PC release, or was it just as much ahead of the curve for years to follow?