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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[–] owsei@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Untitled Goose Game

once you played it, or even just watched it, it loses the initial trill.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 5 points 8 months ago

I still have fun watching other people discover it.

When people are over at my house and we are just hanging around doing nothing I like to put on a game and toss a controller to someone with no explanation and just let them play while everyone watches. Goose Game, Donut County, ABZU and Journey are always a hit even for people that aren't normally into video games.

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

Am I missing something? I tried it for 5 minutes and felt like I didn't understand?

I put it in the Goat Simulator territory of twitch players love it because it's great for streaming and doing weird shit.

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

It's a puzzle game of working out how to complete your to-do list, so that the next area unlocks. Beyond its meme status, I do think it's a very smartly designed puzzler, with lots of experimentation and observation.