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Early Lego games made great use of intonation and miming for their gags and storytelling. For example, this is their version of the famous "I am your father" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvX3MaFB9TI

For me, something was lost when they added voice dialogue to the LEGO games. I much preferred the earlier games that had no real dialogue.

Journey is a great example of a narrative game which doesn’t use verbal communication.

The Sims games franchise also famously uses “Simlish”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simlish

https://www.polygon.com/22891664/the-sims-similish-maxis-stu...

A long time ago now, but The Neverhood did non-verbal physical comedy well. It's a point-and-click puzzle game.

Wario Land had a very expressive ending without language: https://youtu.be/dx_VEj0n_d4?t=11457