This is the affordable pick if you want a curved screen that wraps around your view without spending much. The curve isn't dramatic but it adds a bit of immersion in games, and the 27-inch size at 1440p gives you sharper detail than a regular 1080p monitor.
The VA panel means blacks look genuinely dark instead of washed-out gray — nice when games have moody scenes or you're watching a show in a dim room. It refreshes 165 times per second, which is plenty smooth for most games, though the pixels don't change quite as instantly as pricier screens so you might catch faint trails behind fast motion in competitive shooters.
The HDR label is mostly decoration. It'll accept an HDR signal but won't actually make bright highlights pop the way real HDR does. Think of it as a regular bright display that happens to work when games send HDR.