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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[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

NG+ is optional since it's not required to finish the game or appreciate the story. It's there for the challenge.

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

"Finishing the game" comes before the "replayability" aspect though. You finish the game first, THEN you see if it's replayable. So..... Yes, I completely agree? Replaying is usually always optional lol