sugar_in_your_tea,

I also love short-ish games, so hopefully one of these strikes your fancy. You didn’t specify a preferred genre or other games you liked, so I’m going to just throw some out there:

Adventure/Puzzle

  • Stacking - fun adventure puzzle game based on matryoshka dolls
  • Little Nightmares - fantastic puzzle game stuff great atmosphere and horror elements; similar to INSIDE and Limbo
  • Abzû - underwater exploration with light puzzle mechanics
  • Ys 1 and 2 - pretty old, but it’s my favorite Ys game; Ys Origin is a bit newer, but also a bit longer (~11 hours per playthrough, need 3 for full story, but each plays differently)

Puzzle

  • Manifold Garden - puzzle game where you manipulate gravity
  • Hexlogic - sudoku-like
  • SUPERHOT - shooter that plays like a puzzle game
  • Magrunner - just ignore the story, the puzzles are pretty good
  • Portal - the OG puzzle game, must play if you haven’t; second is about twice as long

ARPG/Souls-like

  • Death’s Door - just started, but it’s looking good
  • Ittle Dew - Zelda-like with lots of satire about the genre
  • Furi - boss rush only
  • Titan Souls - boss rush, but both you and the boss has 1HP

Narrative heavy

  • Telltale Batman or The Walking Dead - narrative heavy game with walking simulator sections; choices matter (but not a ton); great if you want a decent interactive story
  • What Remains of Edith Finch - explore your old home to learn everyone’s secrets
  • Oxenfree - explore Island to uncover its secrets; replay value for alternate endings

Metroidvania

  • Headlander - Metroidvania where you play as a disembodied head that can attach to other bodies
  • Ori and the Blind Forest

Point and Click

  • Darkside Detective - point and click with a great sense of humor
  • Broken Age - you’re a virgin about to be sacrificed, and you’re not sold on the idea
  • Deponia - earth is completely wrecked, and you want off; quite funny

AAA/high production value

  • Ryse: Son of Rome - not amazing, but a pretty satisfyingly average experience
  • Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - shooter a bit after the US civil war

I have more, just let me know what you like and I can try to give more recs.

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