If you want the best bang for your buck, I highly recommend the Acer Nitro 5. At its very cheapest config it's about $680 and it should play anything you throw at it so long as you don't mind playing on medium settings. Unfortunately most laptops these days no longer come with a DVD drive.

Acer Nitro 5 AN515 Laptop: Core i5-8300H, 15.6inch Full HD IPS Display, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, NVidia GTX 1050 4GB Graphics https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C6WYLQB/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Y.fsCbE5D8TR3