Patient Gamers

Been a while since I’ve last played but I wanna say Earthbound.

Most point and click adventures take about 6-10 hours in my experience. My favorites are the Monkey Island and Deponia games.

Ratchet and Clank (into the) nexus on ps3 is like a 5 hour game. It also nicely ties into the latest game if you've yet to play that

I managed to complete disco elysium in under 25hrs if your up for the challenge you can try and beat my record

I think Cocoon will fit in 10 hours. It did for me.

Ori

A bit old, but gold: Fate (the dungeon crawler one). It's a bit low-poly by today's standards, but it's so fun and has killer music, lots of spells and weapons, tons of interesting enemies and can be beaten in like 6 hours.

• Praey for the Gods
• The Upturned
• Your Spider

Resident Evil 7 & 8. Seven sets a new protagonist in a series reboot sort of way, so you might miss some Easter eggs and callbacks but playing the previous games AT ALL. Its meant to be an entry point in the series.

What remains of Edith Finch, a very emotional and wonderful game, short and bitter sweet.

I'd go so far to even gift it to people. Outer Wilds make you feel small and huge at the same time.

Opus: The Day We Found Earth, another great short one.

Digital - A Love Story and its not so close successor Hate Plus. These are digital novels. The former is a story set in a cozy 80s BBS network and the other in an archeological space ship retelling stories related to old Korea. Both touched me very much.

If you wanna have some nostalgia for 2000s era AOL chatrooms you ahould try Emily is Away Too

Inscryption

Klondike solitaire 😁.

Castlevania: SOTN once you know a couple of thing about grinding faster.

I just played through the entirety of Storyteller in one sitting but had a riot of a time with a few friends. I think I spent about 2-3 hours finishing the campaign and will probably spend about another hour finishing the last of the achievements when I next take a crack at it.

World of goo

Spec Ops: The Line is $6 on steam right now, it's one of the few games I would call a masterpiece. I was able to finish it in two sittings, it's the perfect length and it's so damn good

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is another masterpiece, $4.50 on steam right now, an absolute crime that a game as beautiful as that is that cheap. You gotta make sure you're wearing headphones when you play it

Take a look at Contrast, a 5 hours narrative platforming game with pretty visuals an concept

Cultic!

I think it will be longer eventually when more chapters get added, but right now it clocks in at about 6 hours I think. Well worth the money.