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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!

the16bitgamer ,
@the16bitgamer@lemmy.world avatar

Chrono Trigger apparently. It feels longer, but if you are familiar with square rpgs… or Pokemon. You can get through it quickly.

I take my time personally, and like doing the side activities, and listening to the music.

Shihali ,

Chrono Trigger is around 25 hours for a casual playthrough. Great game with a very fast pace for its genre but it seems way too long for OP.

sockenklaus ,
@sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works avatar
  • Eliza: A visual novel by Zachtronics, took me 10 hours to beat
  • Aviary Attorney: A visual novel / detective/ attorney game with music from Camille Saint-Saens and art by J.J. Grandville. Beat it in 7 hours and had a blast.
  • Braid: 2D puzzle platformer with time shift mechanic. Finished it in 7 hours.
  • Tiny Bang story: wimmelpicture point & click. 7 hours.
  • Call of Cthulhu: Horror walking simulator. 7 hours.
  • Bastion: Amazing isometric action game by Supergiant Games. Rook me good 6 hours to finish.
  • Thomas was alone: 2 D platformer with geometric shapes as characters and great narrator. 6 hours.
  • Whispers of a machine: Noir detective story point & click. 5 hours.
  • Homefront: USA gets invaded by Korea first person shooter. Good 4 hours.
  • INSIDE: Atmospheric 2D puzzler. 4 hours.
  • LIMBO: Same as INSIDE, same developer, great game, different story. 4 hours.
Blubber28 ,

I have seen it recommended somewhere in the comments but I want to shed some more light on this game: What Remains of Edith Finch. It is a walking simulator that should take about 2 hours and is best played in a single session.

As Edith Finch, you go back to the house where you grew up in your younger years to explore it. The Finch family has an almost genetic trait of bad luck; many of them have died before their time. You explore the house room by room and explore that person’s last moments.

There is no gore or horror of any kind, but there are children that die, so if that is a trigger I would sit this one out. If not, it is currently on sale for less than €5. It is worth it.

DaCrazyJamez , (edited )

I keep a spreadsheet literally called “games to play”. Ive played about half of these so far, but they all meet your criteria, and all have overall good reviews, here’s a selection from it, including my own notes: (pardon the lack of formatting coming from a spreadsheet)

A Hand With Many Fingers - 3 hours - Puzzle - Difficult (use pen and paper for clues) CIA mystery

A Wolf In Autumn - 1 hour - Walking Sim - Girls nightmare

ADR1FT - 6 hours - Puzzle - Space station catastrophe

Anna - Extended Edition - 5 hours - Adventure - Psych horror in sawmill, inventory based puz

Antichamber - 7 hours - Puzzle - MC-Escher-esque open world physics breaking puzzle solving

Aporia: Beyond The Valley - 5 hours - Walking Sim - Walking Sim+ (puzzles), awaken in ancient temple in jungle

Ballads At Midnight - 4 hours - Visual Novel - Story of a bard and a vampire

Beyond: Two Souls - 12 hours - Adventure - Ellen Page / Willem Dafoe,

Blind Spot - 5 hours - Puzzle - Puzzle mystery story

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons - 3 hours - Walking Sim - Heart-wrenching story told with no words

Brukel - 1 hour - Walking Sim - 92yr old grandma retells memories of WWII

Close To The Sun - 6 hours - Walking Sim - Looks like Bioshock, great atmo

Cloud Climber - 1 hour - Walking Sim

Deliver Us The Moon - 5 hours - Adventure - Sci-fi story on moon, some puzzles, some platforming

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald A Whirlwind Heist - 1 hour - Walking Sim - Very short, hilarious game from maker of The Stanley Principle

Draugen - 3 hours - Mystery - American searching for missing sister in 1920s Norway

Goetia - 7 hours - Point-And-Click - Puzzles / adventure in abandoned house, text heavy

Gorogoa - 2 hours - Puzzle - Hand Illustrated puzzle game

Heavy Rain - 10 hours - RPG - Crime thriller / mystery, multiple outcomes, some QTEs

I Hope She’s OK - 1 hour - Walking Sim - Short mystery at a nordic cabin, told through instagram-like messages

Jessika - 3 hours - FMV - Solve suicide of Jessika

Journey - 5 hours - Walking Sim - Atmospheric exploration

Knee Deep - 4 hours - Puzzle - Mystery in a swampland / theater production

Kona - 8 hours - Adventure - Detective in eerie Canada town

Manifold Garden - 6 hours - Puzzle - M.C. escher landscape build gravity bend puzzles

Murdered: Sould Suspect - 10 hours - RPG - Solve your own murder

Scanner Sombre - 3 hours - Walking Sim - Trippy cave-explore game

SOMA - 10 hours - RPG - Horror adventure

Tacoma - 4 hours - Walking Sim - Sci-fi space station adventure

The Fidelio Incident - 3 hours - Puzzle - Short story, plane crash in N. Ireland

The Forgotten City - 10 hours - RPG - Time loop in ancient Rome

The House of Da Vinci - 7 hours - Puzzle - Similar to “The Room” series

The Painscreek Killings - 10 hours - Walking Sim + - Murder mystery, find clues and keys

The Secrets of Darkwood - 5 hours - Txt RPG - Descendant of Might and Magic series

The Signifier - 9 hours - Adventure - Dark, tech-noir

The Silent Age - 4 hours - Point-and-click - Short, fairly easy puzzles, time travel post-apocalypse

The Turing Test - 6 hours - Puzzle - Portal/Talos wannabe

The Unfinished Swan - 4 hours - Puzzle - Paint / blob game

To The Moon 4 hours - Walking Sim - Doctors help dying patients relive life

Untitled Goose Game - 6 hours - TP-RPG - You are a horrible goose

Valley - 8 hours - Walking Sim - Actually running/jumping sim

Of these, the standouts that I’ve played so far are “Scanner Sombre” and “Unfinished Swan” for truly unique gameplay. “SOMA” and “Heavy Rain” for best storytelling. “Painscreek Killings” for best mystery (minus one very out of place sequence). “Forgotten City” for the best standalone Skyrim mod turned into a self contained adventure.

Boiglenoight ,

To the Moon is a very short must play.

fibojoly ,

That’s the kind of quality content that needs to be stickied for further reference or something!

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Spec Ops: The Line is $6 on steam right now, it’s one of the few games I would call a masterpiece. I was able to finish it in two sittings, it’s the perfect length and it’s so damn good

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is another masterpiece, $4.50 on steam right now, an absolute crime that a game as beautiful as that is that cheap. You gotta make sure you’re wearing headphones when you play it

Boiglenoight ,

Spec Ops: The Line was a surprise. The name sounds like a B level shooter. Powerful ending.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

That’s its greatest asset, and its downfall. It looks, sounds, and plays like the most generic “Americans in the middle east fighting brown people” mid 2000s shooter, and it was entirely on purpose. I implore anyone reading this who’s at all into third person shooters to stop reading, pick up the game, and pretend you’re the target audience of a game called “Spec Ops” while you’re playing. It’s $6 on steam, it’s over a decade old so you can definitely run it, and it takes like 8 hours to beat.

And pay attention to the loading screen tips, especially in the latter half of the game.

Boiglenoight ,

You’re 💯 right.

pox ,

Take a look at Contrast, a 5 hours narrative platforming game with pretty visuals an concept

BurnedDonutHole ,

Telltale Games Wolf Among Us.

danciestlobster ,

Yes, this one is great

BurnedDonutHole ,

Yeah and imagine my surprise when I learned there is Wolf Among Us 2. They say it’s coming to PC. I’m excited.

Ludrol ,
@Ludrol@szmer.info avatar

Antichamber - old revolutionary puzzle game, confusing at times
Baba is you - a great puzzle game
Outer wilds - experience that is one in a lifetime, go in blind
Return of obra dinn - you are a detective

privacyn ,

How can you finish Outer Wilds in less than 10 hours, it’s 10 hours that I’m wandering around and I still don’t get what to do!

Ludrol ,
@Ludrol@szmer.info avatar

To finish under 10 hours you need to get lucky and cut out some lore from the playthrough. Usuall playthrough is a bit longer.

I could get you to explain what have you discovered already but as it is now Lemmy devs have a negative position to implement proper spoiler support. Just open ship log (journal?)(I don’t remember the name) and follow the question marks.

JackGreenEarth ,

Portal, Hyperbolica

bugieman ,

Dredge

Had no idea what to expect going into it. Had only heard that it was a cosmic horror fishing game and decided to give it a try. Ended up loving it!

Not a huge game in terms of scope but feels it nailed every mechanic and the art style and delivery is top notch

MufinMcFlufin ,

I just played through the entirety of Storyteller in one sitting but had a riot of a time with a few friends. I think I spent about 2-3 hours finishing the campaign and will probably spend about another hour finishing the last of the achievements when I next take a crack at it.

kemsat ,

I enjoyed Stray. It’s pretty short, only got stuck one 1 of the puzzles.

JakenVeina ,

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

TheWorstMailman ,

INSIDE is one of my favorite games of any length

Otherwise_Direction7 ,

If you’re looking for a little bit different and unique experience, you can try Katamari Damacy and it’s sequel, We Love Katamari

Instead of shooting enemies or run into the end of the stage, these games main gameplay is to roll a extremely adhesive ball (using both of the controller analog stick) to collect various random objects and junk and make it grow bigger in size. Each of the levels has a different objectives and size requirements that need to be completed for advancing to the next level. The game main campaign also has a very light storytelling too, typically involves around the protagonist and his abusive father who always command him to roll stuff up. The graphics are really minimalist and colorful, plus the soundtrack are the absolute fire, covering the multiple genres such as J-Pop, Scatting Jazz, Hip Hop Disco, and even Bossa Nova

Both games main campaign can be completed in less than 10 hours and runs great even on the low end hardware

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