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!

  • moosetwin
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    2 years ago
    • Firewatch (highly recommend!)
    • SUPERHOT
    • The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe (highly recommend!)
    • Frog Fractions (game is best played blind)
    • SCP: Containment Breach

    Incremental Games: (best played blind)

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    May I introduce you to the Sega Saturn library. A lot of it is arcade style games, many of which can be beaten in 2 hours or less, but replayed nearly endlessly

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    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.

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

      I love that game.

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        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
      • @[email protected]
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        Me too! I also highly recommend:

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

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          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.

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      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.

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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.

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    Super Mario RPG can be wolluped in 20. If you go hard, I bet you can do it in 10.

    Pretty fun and rather full of Easter eggs if you want to keep at it.

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    Wandersong is the happiest game you could possibly play that I play whenever I am feeling particularly depressed. Hypnospace outlaw is hilarious and fits the time criteria. Both are newer than 5 years but have very non-demanding specs

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    Celeste!

    (Unless you want to complete additional levels, which are still canon, then much much more).

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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