What are some good games with zero replayability?

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SorteKanin@feddit.dk⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

I want to try and play some more games. That feels more fulfilling if you play games that you can finish and be done with.

So what are some good games that have zero (or close to zero perhaps) replayability? I’ll start with my own suggestions:

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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flicker@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Undertale, if you have a heart.

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- Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is worth replaying as the hero and villain imo
  
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  - lady_maria@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I wouldn’t be able to stomach being the villain, so I just watched someone else do it on YouTube. lol
    
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- kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think I do, but I still won’t play it until I play the Mother games… I don’t know why I impose that rule to myself though.
  
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lutesolo@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you want something very similar to the three you named, do not sleep on Case of the Golden Idol.

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- frickineh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yesss, I loved both of those games. Pentiment was so strange - there are things I didn’t love about it, but I still got so sucked in that I’d wake up the morning and be eager to start playing again to find out what happens next. I haven’t felt that way about a game in a while.
  
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ifGoingToCrashDont@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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

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- Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - Infynis@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Subnautica is replayae just because the world is so beautiful
    
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- Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.
  
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Denjin@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Factorio.

Just kidding, someone please help me

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- polle@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I recently started factorio, damn iam HOOKED
  
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JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Unpacking.

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BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Escape Academy? It’s a great escape room game (even better in co-op) but it’s more engaging than Escape Simulator since there’s a story pulling everything together. The story’s ridiculous but honestly the context adds entertainment value, regardless of how absurd it is.

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Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Cat Lady

To The Moon

SOMA (you can play it again of course but the raw shock and intensity of the plot is lost the second time)

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nac82@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would volunteer a lot of the single-player story games produced by Sony like Uncharted, The Last of US, with Spiderman being the exception to the rule.

Some of their games have a little more open game loop design, but personally, I don’t think I could play The Last of Us twice.

From what I played of God of War I would imagine it’s similar, but I never actually beat it.

I’m sure there are people out there who love single-player game narratives and would disagree. I just think a lot of these games are good for the story, but the gameplay feels like once you’ve done it, you’ve done it.

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- impudentmortal@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There are some games that are entirely story based that fit the criteria better.
  
  One that comes to mind is To the Moon. There’s some puzzle elements to make it a game but its appeal is pretty much entirely based on its story.
  
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DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m surprised no one has said Outer Wilds. Amazing story about space exploration.

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- Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Might be because it was in the 3rd bullet of OP’s body text.
  
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  - DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh yeah that would make sense.
    
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PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Forgotten City. Interesting mystery game set in a Roman city, but after you know the spoilers there’s little reason to play it again.

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Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Personally, any bigass AAA game that has a million different things to do. Like there’s no way I’m playing the God of War sequel-reboot again. Coming from someone who beat GoW 3 like 5 times

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- Goronmon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I haven’t even played the Witcher 3 DLCs.
  
  I beat the the main game at one point but was so exhausted with the game I had to take a break. By the time I got back I didn’t remember enough about the main game to play the DLCs, so I keep trying to replay it from the beginning.
  
  I think I’ve made 4 attempts so far and end up stalling out about 10 hours in each time.
  
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  - FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I get that. I tried playing the witcher 3 a few times now after the console update but the combat is too janky/dated.
    
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  - EssentialCoffee@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What do you need to know about the main game to play the DLCs that isn’t in the DLCs?
    
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Radicaldog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A lot of people are posting games that are short and linear. But to match your energy, games that cannot be replayed unless you forget what you learn;

Case of the Golden Idol is a mystery/deduction game, a la Obra Dinn.

Toki Tori 2 is a puzzle metroidvania, where you can do everything from the start - tweet and stomp. Right from the first screen, big chunks of the map can be shortcut through once you put your later learnings into practice.
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Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Outer wilds

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reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m currently playing through the ace attorney series, couch party w my fiancee. We’re having a blast, but there’s absolutely no doing this a second time.

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ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Visual novels, and the Frog Detective series.

Doki Doki Literature Club being the biggie (or well-known one), Florence is very sweet, Yenba is also very nice (Game Pass).

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dodeca@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Her Story Human Powered Spacecraft Tacoma The Park Betrayer The Walking Dead (Telltale 2012) Swapper Pony Island The Corridor Spirits of Xanadu Pneuma: Breath of Life Deadlight Valley The Signal From Tölva Control Unepic Ghost 1.0 Limbo Super Trench Attack Year Walk The Room

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mvict@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That dragon, Cancer

After playing it once, I can’t go through it a second time.

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- myfavouritename@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wow. Yeah, absolutely. I had forgotten about that game until you mentioned it. Thank you for reminding me. It’s entirely unique and deserves to be remembered. But yeah, I don’t think I have it in me to replay it.
  
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catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Since puzzle games seem to be the theme overall here I’ll mention Cocoon. It’s a recent puzzler that is absolutely gorgeous to look at and did some super clever stuff imo.

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- RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I love Cocoon, it’s one of my recent favorites
  
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CharlesReed@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Soma - This is such an amazing game, but it made me so mad that I would never play it again.

The Painscreek Killings - A really fun detective/mystery walking sim. You absolutely have to figure everything out yourself, as there is no hand-holding or hints given by the game. At all. But, like Return of the Obra Dinn, once you've figured out the mystery, there really is no sense in replaying it.

I was going to add some others before realizing I had a theme of mystery walking sims. I think that genre of games are pretty one and done kind of plays. They can be really great, but most don't give you a reason to go back and replay them, unless it's for achievements or something.

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- noxy@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  SOMA was great, but yeah, not much replayability once you know everything. Curious, tho, what about it made you mad?
  
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  - CharlesReed@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It's been a few years since I've played it, but I remember not being a fan of the female companion. To me it felt like she was just using the main character as a means to get to her goal and nothing more. I know that's an unpopular take (I've gotten into a couple light arguments over it), but I just could not stand her by the end of the game. The way she treated the MC just made the post-credits scene so angering.
    
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twoface_99@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Limbo and Lost in Random

You could replay them for the vibe, but that’s it

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- billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you liked Limbo, you’d like the next game Playdead did, Inside.
  
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ECB@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Escape Simulator definitely fits the bill.

It’s great, but all about the discovery.

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jose1324@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What remains of Edith Finch Life is Strange series The beginner’s guide

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Mistic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Storyteller

A short but memorable puzzle-type game where you have to put together scenes and characters to create a story. Actions in previous scenes affect how characters behave or appear in later ones.

Really liked that one

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garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you’re ok with point and click/puzzlers, the rusty lake games are probably some of my favourite storylines. Extremely well written imo, creepy and with a few jump scares to keep you on your toes.

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- Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They’re incredible.
  
  I hooked my wife with Rusty Lake Hotel, which is probably the easiest entry point into the whole series.
  
  Then we went into a few cube games, and then Rusty Lake Roots, which is so well made and where all the best lore is.
  
  Did some more cube games, and right into Rusty Lake Paradise and Samara Room, and Underground Blossom.
  
  I also didn’t tell her The Past Within is also a Rusty Lake game, so when she saw the connections while we were playing, her excitement went through the roof.
  
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JayEchoRay@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I enjoyed

"One Shot", it has a few achievements that might require going back to try to complete.

It is puzzle top down story adventure game( it does the whole look into your actual files for solutions thing), once I finished the main story I felt satisified. It allows for playing after the ending but doing so feels hollow and unsatisifying which is the point. It asks the question of why do you still want to play, but oh well I will allow it and makes it possible.
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quantumantics@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
While I’m not sure the “walking sim” games are what you’re looking for, I’d add Lifeless Planet and maybe Dear Esther. Once you know what’s going on/what happened, there’s not much point in replaying.

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- SuperEars@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I second the Dear Esther mention. I almost feel like it’s a dead body starting at me from my Steam library for the past decade+.
  
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yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The remake of shadow of the colossus since they removed the time attack mode with awesome unlocks.

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Morefan@retrolemmy.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Penumbra Overture, never finished it but was fun exploring and figuring out stuff.

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- HATEFISH@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Black plague is even better, best Frictional game to date imo.
  
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  - Morefan@retrolemmy.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ll wait for a sale but looks cool.
    
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supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The vanishing of Ethan carter

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atoro@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Scanner Sombre

Interesting main mechanic, good storytelling, but once you finish it, that’s pretty much it.

Maaaaaaybe replaying the first room you start in with all the upgrades, since you can see more clearly, but that’s it.

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- DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Man, a game I wish I could first-time again
  
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