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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[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you want something very similar to the three you named, do not sleep on Case of the Golden Idol.

It might have a little more replayability due to they way decisions you make impact the story, but I'd also put in a strong recommendation for Pentiment.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yesss, I loved both of those games. Pentiment was so strange - there are things I didn't love about it, but I still got so sucked in that I'd wake up the morning and be eager to start playing again to find out what happens next. I haven't felt that way about a game in a while.