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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!

Paranomaly , (edited )
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In no particular order:

Metal Gear Rising Revengence

Psychonauts 1

Bladed Fury

Ori and the Blind Forest

Titanfall 2

OneShot

Undertale

Unpacking

Portal/Portal 2

Bastion/Transistor

Any member of the Shadowrun RPG trilogy

Little Inferno

Planetarian

SolOrion ,

I don’t think anyone else has mentioned Gunpoint! So… Gunpoint.

massive_bereavement ,
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The worst part of Gunpoint is that after finishing up there's no more Gunpoint.

page ,

Brothers

Nath ,
@Nath@aussie.zone avatar

Not recommended for fathers - particularly fathers of boys.

TempermentalAnomaly ,

Oh man… I suspect I shouldn’t play this with my boy then.

page ,

Ya… wonderful story telling and gameplay though. It made both me and my brother cry.

sunbunman ,

Brothers: A tale of two sons is pretty spectacular and can be finished within a few hours.

TeamDman ,

World of goo

jelloeater85 ,
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What remains of Edith Finch, a very emotional and wonderful game, short and bitter sweet.

I’d go so far to even gift it to people. Outer Wilds make you feel small and huge at the same time.

Opus: The Day We Found Earth, another great short one.

ExtraMedicated ,
sugar_in_your_tea , (edited )

I also love short-ish games, so hopefully one of these strikes your fancy. You didn’t specify a preferred genre or other games you liked, so I’m going to just throw some out there:

Adventure/Puzzle

  • Stacking - fun adventure puzzle game based on matryoshka dolls
  • Little Nightmares - fantastic puzzle game stuff great atmosphere and horror elements; similar to INSIDE and Limbo
  • Abzû - underwater exploration with light puzzle mechanics
  • Ys 1 and 2 - pretty old, but it’s my favorite Ys game; Ys Origin is a bit newer, but also a bit longer (~11 hours per playthrough, need 3 for full story, but each plays differently)

Puzzle

  • Manifold Garden - puzzle game where you manipulate gravity
  • Hexlogic - sudoku-like
  • SUPERHOT - shooter that plays like a puzzle game
  • Magrunner - just ignore the story, the puzzles are pretty good
  • Portal - the OG puzzle game, must play if you haven’t; second is about twice as long

ARPG/Souls-like

  • Death’s Door - just started, but it’s looking good
  • Ittle Dew - Zelda-like with lots of satire about the genre
  • Furi - boss rush only
  • Titan Souls - boss rush, but both you and the boss has 1HP

Narrative heavy

  • Telltale Batman or The Walking Dead - narrative heavy game with walking simulator sections; choices matter (but not a ton); great if you want a decent interactive story
  • What Remains of Edith Finch - explore your old home to learn everyone’s secrets
  • Oxenfree - explore Island to uncover its secrets; replay value for alternate endings

Metroidvania

  • Headlander - Metroidvania where you play as a disembodied head that can attach to other bodies
  • Ori and the Blind Forest

Point and Click

  • Darkside Detective - point and click with a great sense of humor
  • Broken Age - you’re a virgin about to be sacrificed, and you’re not sold on the idea
  • Deponia - earth is completely wrecked, and you want off; quite funny

AAA/high production value

  • Ryse: Son of Rome - not amazing, but a pretty satisfyingly average experience
  • Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - shooter a bit after the US civil war

I have more, just let me know what you like and I can try to give more recs.

SolOrion ,

What Remains of Edith Finch - explore your old home to learn everyone’s secrets

I love that game.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Dear Esther was similar, but less of a game and more of an audio visual experience. Some I haven’t played yet:

  • Before Your Eyes
  • Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Tommy_the_Gun ,
@Tommy_the_Gun@lemmy.world avatar

Me too! I also highly recommend:

Gone Home - explore your old home to learn everyone’s secrets

SolOrion ,

Gone Home was good, yes!

I feel like it generates way more of a spooky atmosphere, too. I honestly thought I was playing a horror game for the first half, before I finally realized it wasn’t going to jump scare me and I could relax.

In a similar vein, The Suicide Of Rachel Foster is a decent experience. It’s not nearly as good, to be clear, but it’s worth playing imo. It’s much creepier, however.

Jawa , (edited )

I just finished Deaths Door and it was a very enjoyable game to play on the go or in bed (steamdeck). Took me about 17 hours to finish it.

Estiar ,

Helltaker is a little puzzle game that is free and short and sweet

codebound ,

What Remains of Edith Finch is a game in this category that really left an impression. Would definitely recommend a playthrough.

heavy ,

If it hasn’t been mentioned, I think it’s newer than 5 years but Return of the Obra Dinn and Curse of the Golden Idol are great short games that you can pick up and put down as you like.

Vaginal_blood_fart ,

Obra dinn is art

massive_bereavement ,
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I wish I could give myself a concussion so I can play it again afresh.

Vaginal_blood_fart ,

It’s Xmas. I can doink your noggin with a mallet if you like.

frank ,

Obra Dinn is an absolute banger of a game and soundtrack and I’d love to be able to forget and re play it.

NENathaniel ,
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Bioshock comes to mind. You’ll miss some side stuff with a 10hr play through but I think it’s doable. Amazing game

Pwnmode ,

As someone who doesn’t have the attention span for long games this one kept my attention real good.

drislands ,

COCOON and Viewfinder are a couple of not-terribly-long puzzle games with super cool mechanics.

owenfromcanada ,
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IIRC, Undertale was a pretty short game, and has as deep a story as games three or four times its length.

B0NK3RS , (edited )
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  • Citizen Sleeper, it’s so good you will likely not put it down until your story ends!
  • Thomas Was Alone, amazing narrative platformer and all time favourite.
  • Telltale Games, most of not all can be completed in 10 hours and they are all great. TWAU is the best one.
  • Titanfall 2, one of the greatest campaigns.

You can finish a lot in 10 hours.

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