I have been on a kick lately with short games. Because I’m a parent with a hectic job, it’s really nice to be able to beat a game in just a few days.
I’ve played both Plague Tale games (10 & 20 hours respectively), Stray (7 hours), and Alan Wake (10 hours). All great stories, very atmospheric, and felt like just the right length for what they were.
Any other good story-heavy games that are pretty short? Throw any and all recommendations at me!
Bastion or Transistor, both early Supergiant games.
If you like tactics games I recommend Wintermoor Tactics Club. Its funny and sweet and fits nicely in that time frame
If you’re cool with visual novels, Doki Doki Literature Club is an incredibly interesting game, not very long. It really stuck with me.
Pretty important to go in blind with this one! It’s a great game!
Hey Op don’t play it in front of the kids, you’ll thank me later.
True!
It’s not a horror game though. It’s more of a creepy tension. And some bloody bits. Overall it’s for the atmosphere you play it, you really get sucked into the mind of the protagonist.
See, you get my worry. The tension’s not bad, just a lot for the kids.
Very true. :)
There’s a bit of gore in there too, not much, but still.
I went on my steam profile (note these are all PC games, but some are on console) and looked at all the games I finished in under 20 hours at least once and enjoyed so I’ll just list them here. It’s in descending order from most (20.1 hours) to least (68 minutes):
I put a star next to the ones I’d recommend in a heartbeat even without the 20 hour limit.
- Mirror’s Edge ★
- The Stanley Parable ★ (although may take you at least 20 to find all endings / easter eggs / secrets)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ★ (due to the fact that it’s the middle game in an incomplete trilogy, also recommend Deus Ex: Human Revolution but that’s more than 20)
- Hotline Miami ★
- Little Inferno
- Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
- Dishonored ★
- Myst
- DOOM (2016) ★
- Wolfenstein: The New Order ★
- Portals 1 & 2 ★
- Return of the Obra Dinn ★ (beat twice in 9 hours)
- Kentucky Route Zero ★
- The Henry Stickmin Collection ★
- FAR: Lone Sails
- Titanfall 2
- DUSK ★
- COD: Modern Warfare 2
- Ghostrunner (didn’t like this but it seemed most people who weren’t me did so i’m putting it here)
- Thomas Was Alone
- Jazzpunk: Director’s Cut ★
- Gunpoint ★
- Orwell
- Firewatch
- Superliminal ★
- Observer_ ★
- SUPERHOT ★
- The Beginner’s Guide
- BattleBlock Theater
- INSIDE ★
- EDGE
- Quadrilateral Cowboy
- Journey ★
edit: saw u said “story heavy” so i removed some of the arcadey ones. Some of these aren’t exactly “story heavy” depending on ur definition but they at least have a story
I’m pretty upset tf|2 doesn’t have a star. Explain yourself.
i didn’t like the multiplayer