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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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Antichamber - clever first person puzzle game. I played it exactly once and I loved it.

[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I replayed it after many years. It was fantastic, now I need to wait another many years to forget the solution.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

The older you get the more often you'll be able to play!

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'd place Superliminal in this category as well.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Superliminal was cool, but I just didn't enjoy it. It was fun for a bit, but I feel like the mechanic overstayed it's welcome for how simple it is. There's not very many unique ways to use it. That's probably why Valve abandoned the idea too.

Still, it's interesting and worth a shot. Plenty of people love it.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

You can replay it to find all the extra secrets though

[–] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

This goes for most of these first person puzzle games. Once you solve the puzzle its not very fun to do it again.

Portal 1 and 2, the Witness, Talos Principle 1 and 2, Manifold Garden - all worth a play through. Next on my list to try is Viewfinder.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I feel portal could be replayed if you focused too hard on the puzzles the first time through, there were quite a few secrets worth exploring in that world, though none too deep unfortunately

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I play through both Portal games every few years; maybe every 5 or 6. I think I’m due again soon.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 6 months ago

I kind of got bored of manifold garden. I guess it was the lack of any story. I just had no motivation to continue.

[–] sxt@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I feel like portal 2 can get by on a playthrough every so many years based on the writing/VA making it enjoyable even if you half remember the puzzles.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 4 points 6 months ago

Good suggestion, I played it many years ago as well :)

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 2 points 6 months ago

Awesome game. I was high on cannabis when I played it, and managed to beat it in one sitting about 10 years ago. I want to play it while high on shrooms, that would be even crazier.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Copying my comment from elsewhere in this thread

I was going to write anti chamber, because I never want to play it again, but %'s 30-90 of the way through the game I was itching to start over. It had me so hooked, but then the ending just took the wind out of the sails so hard. Heck maybe 10-98% of the game had me itching to replay it.