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Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So this isn't directly related to patientgaming but my hardware and personal tastes kind of filter me to playing games no newer than five years old.

I'm looking for some recommendations for games that can be completed within ten hours. I've realized recently that this is the sweet spot how much I enjoy playing a game before I get bored of it. I'm open to all types of games. Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Games of about 10hs from before 2019?

King of Dragon Pass: Tribe management game/text adventure with illustrations. Felt it was interesting in both mechanics and vibes
Plants vs Zombies: Addictive comedy-themed tower defense
Alundra: PS1's Zelda
Gris: Atmospheric 2D puzzle platformer
Celeste: Rewarding 2D platformer with nice music
The Lion's Song: Graphic aventure light on gameplay and heavy on story and atmosphere. 4 chapters about early 20th century Austrian artists and scientists with themes like art, gender, identity, memory, society, etc.
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You: You play as a government employee tasked with finding people deemed as terrorists by the gov by scouring their social networks. There's different ways to play it
Papers, Please: Similar to above but as a border control agent
The Banner Saga: Tactical RPG bases on viking mythology
Rebuild: Gangs of Deadville: Management of a group/colony of customizable survivors in a zombie apocalypse. Web game

These are more recent but they should require very low specs:

Roadwarden: Very well written and immersive text adventure with RPG elements. Low fantasy world, you're assigned as a roadwarden by a far away nation to a dangerous and sparsely populated wildland.
Landnama: Viking tribes settling Iceland. Plays like a well designed board game in video game form. Real time with pause.
Citizen Sleeper: Incredible cyberpunk text-heavy adventure with RPG elements and a narrative focused on being humane in a not so humane world with a not quite humane body

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is it still possible to get any versions of Plants vs Zombies that aren't riddled with micro transactions? I feel like the non-updated version of the original became hard to find anymore a few years ago. Though maybe that was just on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Project Eclise for PvZ2. I'm sure there's something similar for 1.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oh, didn't know. I played it with zero microtransactions. I'm sure there's a certain way though