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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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Midnight Suns was like that for me. The tactical combat was interesting and could have had replay value, but all the chores and conversations you have to do to progress the story made this a "no way" for a second playthrough. Absolutely worth it to go through once though, if you are into turn based combat games and marvel characters.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I stalled out on playing this. I loved the combat aspect, but the chores and conversations feel too much like... well, chores. I just wanna fuck up some bad guys, not watch my character watch a movie with a Marvel character!

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

Yeah I almost gave up too, it did become a bit of a slog in the middle with all the back and forth collecting shit and chatting everyone up. Definitely has some pacing issues.