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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[–] ifGoingToCrashDont@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Stranded Deep - one of the only survival/crafting/procedural open world games that has a defined objective and an actual ending.

10/10 don't need to play it again but I might anyway because it was so great

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would also put Subnautica here - and personally say it is worlds superior to Stranded Deep but of course personal preference can give either hte advantage.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Subnautica is replayae just because the world is so beautiful

[–] FilterItOut@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 months ago

I enjoy replaying it, but the contrast between first time and any repeat is mind-boggling, and nearly enough to say that replaying it isn't worth it. That first time... wow, it just hit so well.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I want to like this game but I keep making stupid decisions and being so confused at the start that I just gave up. The game is fun but doesn't do a fantastic job at explaining how to get going.