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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[–] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the yakuza series is fucking fantastic, but not that replayable. Usually it's because I seek out all the substories and stuff on my first run, so it takes fucking ages to finish, but I've never got the urge to play it again after I've completed the stories.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

But I want to replay 0 so much... I've played through 4 but the story just doesn't hit as much.