Return of the Obra Dinn: Amazing mystery/detective game. However once you've played it, you basically can't play it again as you remember the solution already and the challenge of the game is trivialized.
Chants of Sennaar: Really great game about deciphering languages. However, once again, by playing the game once, you'll remember the languages and the game has no challenge any more.
Outer Wilds: Mystery adventure game. There is some replayability as there are perhaps areas that you can still explore, but largely once you figure out the mystery and complete the game, there's not much more to experience. Some people speedrun the game though.

All of the above games I value extremely highly even though I only played them ~8-10 hours.

Do you have any others?

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Road 96

Huh? The point of that game is being a narrative roguelite, everytime you start out different and have different choices to make.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I felt like the gimmick in Road 96 wasn't worth it.

It feels more like window dressing. Turning night into day. Or instead of looking for a walkie talkie, it's batteries.

The beats are too specific and if you had one motorcycle minigame, you had them all.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same with firewatch.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Firewatch has 1 ending and only pretty small changes depending on dialog.