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?

mvict,

That dragon, Cancer

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

myfavouritename,

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.

catalyst,
@catalyst@lemmy.world avatar

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.

RGB3x3,

I love Cocoon, it’s one of my recent favorites

CharlesReed,
@CharlesReed@kbin.run avatar

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.

noxy,
@noxy@yiffit.net avatar

SOMA was great, but yeah, not much replayability once you know everything. Curious, tho, what about it made you mad?

CharlesReed,
@CharlesReed@kbin.run avatar

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.

noxy,
@noxy@yiffit.net avatar

That makes a lot of sense, she did have the player do some relatively fucked up stuff that he wouldn’t have wanted done to him!

But also she was right to call him a fucking idiot for repeatedly failing to understand the core concept

CharlesReed,
@CharlesReed@kbin.run avatar

Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong, he was not very smart, but she did not really help either lol

DichotoDeezNutz,
@DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world avatar

I’m surprised no one has said Outer Wilds. Amazing story about space exploration.

Rentlar,

Might be because it was in the 3rd bullet of OP’s body text.

DichotoDeezNutz,
@DichotoDeezNutz@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah that would make sense.

twoface_99,

Limbo and Lost in Random

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

billiam0202,

If you liked Limbo, you’d like the next game Playdead did, Inside.

Zehzin,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

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 even though I enjoyed it. Coming from someone who beat the original trilogy like 3 times each at least

More on topic though: Any adventure game for as long as you remember the solutions

Goronmon,

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.

EssentialCoffee,

What do you need to know about the main game to play the DLCs that isn’t in the DLCs?

Goronmon,

It’s going to be hard to come up with a list of things I have forgotten that might be relevant to the DLCs I haven’t played.

That aside, it’s more that I barely remember even many of the main story beats and any characters aside from the top 4.

Edit: Oh, and I remember another thing. My main playthrough was on PC, but I don’t use my PC for gaming so much anymore. I had a decent playthrough on main game on Xbox, but I bought the GOTY edition without realizing that the saves weren’t compatible, or something like that. Hence, my attempts at trying to play through the game.

FilthyHookerSpit,

I get that. I tried playing the witcher 3 a few times now after the console update but the combat is too janky/dated.

ECB,

Escape Simulator definitely fits the bill.

It’s great, but all about the discovery.

jose1324,

What remains of Edith Finch Life is Strange series The beginner’s guide

Mistic,

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, it’s fun.

garbagebagel,

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.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

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.

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.

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+.

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

The remake of shadow of the colossus since they removed the time attack mode with awesome unlocks.

Morefan,

Penumbra Overture, never finished it but was fun exploring and figuring out stuff.

HATEFISH,

Black plague is even better, best Frictional game to date imo.

Morefan,

I’ll wait for a sale but looks cool.

supercriticalcheese,

The vanishing of Ethan carter

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