What are some good games with *zero* replayability?

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?

Classy,

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)

Caligvla,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Dredge comes to mind. It’s a nice game and all, but outside of the two endings (which are basically a choose left or right situation) you see pretty much everything there’s to see in a single playthrough.

Ragnarok314159,

I will play Dredge just to fish. When I get sucked into an absolutely stupid meeting and am required to be there, fishing makes it fun.

JayEchoRay,
@JayEchoRay@lemmy.world avatar

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.

atoro,

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.

DaCrazyJamez,

Man, a game I wish I could first-time again

quantumantics,

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.

SuperEars,

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+.

KyuubiNoKitsune,

Observation and Deliver us the Moon

reverendsteveii,

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. The nature of the games is such that you can’t really progress in any of the cases without having asked every question of every witness, gathered every piece of evidence and explored every relevant branch in cross-examination, so by the time you finish a case there’s just nothing left to go over a second time.

Construc_,
@Construc_@lemmy.world avatar

Outer Wilds. not only is it a fantastic game, but the entire premise and gameplay is centred around discovering the world. theres no progression, the story is all diagetic and not quest-bound or anything, and once you know the world you cant really discover it any more (unless you forget)

RizzRustbolt,

Darkspore.

Katana314,

OneShot is very much based on its story and immersion. Contrary to the title’s implication, there’s not so much potential for risk during play, even if it’s themed that way, but it does feel like any efforts to repeat the game would ruin some of the immersive thoughts present.

RamenDame,

I think in its original form, browser based I think, you just had OneShot. But I really enjoyed it. Great to see it mentioned.

DarkThoughts,

For me pretty much every single linear / story type game. Even great ones I sometimes attempted to have another run but would immediately get bored and ended up quitting. They just don't really offer anything to me to make it worth it. Even a lot of New Game Plus modes aren't cutting it, because they're typically just some extra items or abilities.

SorteKanin,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

every single linear / story type game

Which ones are your favourites among those? :)

DarkThoughts,

Hmm, tough question since a lot of them I played personally years ago as I eventually began EA & Ubisoft, which have some of the more commonly known franchises here and the feelings I have towards them unfortunately also tainted their games and the experiences I had with them. And I also generally got much more into more open ended / non linear type of genres like sandbox, open world or 4X games.
I guess I enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn quite a bit, I also love TLoU Part 1 & 2, even though Part 2 is probably the heaviest story game I've seen (not played since there's no PC port yet but I watched stupid amounts of Let's Plays at this point), a little underdog / hidden gem is probably CrossCode, which was a complete surprise hit for me and one of those games that I will always try to sell whenever I can get the opportunity for it.

PraiseTheSoup,

Tales of Arise

FilthyHookerSpit,

Agreed. I feel the same of most story games. My favs such as: The last of us, God of War, Spiderman, Midnight Suns, FF7R, FF16, Like a Dragon, Days Gone, new Ratchet and Clank. The games don’t really offer anything new upon replay so I consider them one-and-dones.

CarbonatedPastaSauce,

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,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

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,

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.

FrostKing,

Some people might disagree with me, but Celeste.

PraiseTheSoup,

I’d argue it’s not even worth playing once.

bionicjoey,

Funny OP, you named the exact 3 games I was planning on naming here.

SorteKanin,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Great minds think alike 😜

Gabadabs,

Danganronpa, honestly any of them. Once you know the story, who the killers are, and the twists, it quickly loses it’s charm. The only way afterwards is to watch other people play it for the first time.

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