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Best games that can be completed in under ten hours?

So this isn’t directly related to patientgaming but my hardware and personal tastes kind of filter me to playing games no newer than five years old.

I’m looking for some recommendations for games that can be completed within ten hours. I’ve realized recently that this is the sweet spot how much I enjoy playing a game before I get bored of it. I’m open to all types of games. Thanks in advance!

pastermil ,

Stray

theedqueen ,

Been a while since I’ve last played but I wanna say Earthbound.

darkdemize ,

Earthbound is a great game, but it’s quite a bit longer than 10 hours for the average first play through.

Rai ,

Yeah it’s more than double that, easily. You’ll spend an hour on fuzzy pickles alone.

Weirdfish ,

Journey

Inside

Adrift

Subnautica

Humanity

Terminarchs ,

Subnautica under ten hours

Maybe I’m just really bad at it.

Weirdfish ,

In easy mode, maybe. I played it on hardcore permadeath and it took many, many hours to complete it.

Honestly, that was the one suggestion I put that’s likely well over 10, but damn it’s a good game.

Rai ,

Definitely not. I’m great at it and it’s absolutely not an under-10-hour game, especially for a first time player.

Aviandelight , (edited )
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Here are some short games that I enjoyed: Untitled Goose Game, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, Donut County, Firewatch, Tangle Tower, Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise, What Remains of Edith Finch, Spectrum Retreat, Dust: An Elysian Tale

Drbreen ,

The Stanley Parable

MajorHavoc ,

It’s been awhile since I finished if, but if I recall correctly,Abzu was about 5 hours.

Sharpiemarker ,

I second Abzu. Short but also a brilliant, relaxing, and meaningful game.

CrazyEddie041 ,
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Celeste. Not much to say except that it's a fantastic little platformer.

BudgieMania ,

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

It has zero filler, it's wall to wall balls to the wall nonstop action

you might exceed the ten hours slightly if you're bad like me and get stuck in the final boss for two hours but otherwise it's perfect

520 , (edited )

Play with the volume up. Your ears will thank you.

Seriously. For every thread that mentions this game, there is someone shouting "RULES OF NATURE!".

Half an hour in, you will understand why. And you will know why this game absolutely slaps.

BudgieMania ,

very much this, the soundtrack became my soundtrack for work for like two years

every boss theme would be the best boss theme in any other game, but here they are just one of many

520 , (edited )

It's not just that the soundtrack itself slaps, but also the way they use it, the audio design of the game is absolutely masterful.

It knows exactly when to do things like drop the vocals for maximum effect, and the instrumentations reflect the themes the game itself deliberately conveys.

PP_BOY_ OP ,
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Just throwing out my own recommendation for others, I really enjoyed playing Dredge over the summer, which ran perfectly fine on my 1070. Total playtime was about 11 hours and I don’t feel like I missed anything or that it overstayed it’s welcome

espais ,
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Second this one, highly enjoyed DREDGE and definitely was a good short experience

Nemo ,

Stranded Sails can’t have been much longer than that.

Braid is deffo under ten.

Aurix ,

Digital - A Love Story and its not so close successor Hate Plus. These are digital novels. The former is a story set in a cozy 80s BBS network and the other in an archeological space ship retelling stories related to old Korea. Both touched me very much.

TonyHawksPoTater ,
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Return of the Obra Dinn. The 2nd game from the maker of Papers, Please. You're trying to solve the murders or disappearances of 60 people on a ship, using a watch that can view their moment of death. Insanely unique game, and it's hard to replicate that feeling of all the pieces of the puzzle falling into place that this game fosters.

wolfshadowheart ,

If you’re good enough, Vanquish.

MrScottyTay ,

Ratchet and Clank (into the) nexus on ps3 is like a 5 hour game. It also nicely ties into the latest game if you’ve yet to play that

BiggestBulb ,
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A bit old, but gold: Fate (the dungeon crawler one). It's a bit low-poly by today's standards, but it's so fun and has killer music, lots of spells and weapons, tons of interesting enemies and can be beaten in like 6 hours.

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