Portal 2 - played a long time ago, but I think it took something between 8-10 hours?

Little Nightmares - 4 hours

Stanley Parable - this one is harder to quantify, but all playthroughs are quite short

CoD MW trilogy - each game is around 6 hours

Titanfall 2 - around 6 hours I think

The Last Door - don’t remember exactly, but certainly below the 6 hour count

Telltale Games/Life is Strange - all of them are around 8 hours long

*edit.: as have been mentioned below, LiS is actually longer, around 15h, so my memory played a trick on me :p

I just played "What remains of Edith Finch" very short but really fun and unique.

I actually just bought the Orange Box, and played Portal for the first time last week. It's great, but the difficulty ramps up really quickly after a point! I'm still trying to get through Test Room 15 (or maybe 16, but I may have despair-quit upon beholding it.)

I replayed through Portal the other day and it took me about 40 minutes.

It's one of those games where you remember exactly what to do when you replay it, so you can rush through and feel like a speedrunning god.

Also I forgot how good the writing is. I might replay Portal 2 too.

Obra Dinn is glorious, but I am sadly stuck somewhere in the middle and I can't figure out what to do next! *Sigh...* Soon enough I'll regroup and go back. Play the game!

Definitely the best short game I've played recently. It had so many great moments. The last staging area was epic.

I loved it. I'd also shine a spotlight on that final sequence which completely came out of nowhere and added depth to what we had been doing the whole game.

I really liked it! It definitely flew under the radar when it came out but I loved the little puzzles in each room and how they integrated the “real world” into each space.

I've heard enough, where do I sign up

I bought it as couch game because of "full controller support" - that was a bad idea. Dragging and dropping the different elements with a controller is a huge pain. Otherwise it looks fun.

Interestingly, I was going through the puzzle games on game pass last night and gave this a shot. Having recently playing through Portal bridge constructor, it definitely scratches a similar itch and I agree with everything you said.

Why do you think he'd never play Shadow of War? It's a great game

The nms edit is hilarious

The Zanny mind would wet himself over the Shadow of War Nemesis system

Zanny on Shadow of War would be a dream come true

May's Journal of Time Travels is a relaxing puzzle game. It can be completed in 1-2 hours. It's a simple design but I spent a lot of time polishing it and working on the details. All of the visuals are original artwork from old books (mainly 18th and 19th century.)

Thanks to the good folks at the British Library who are working hard to digitalize their archive and share it on their Flickr account. There are many awesome projects like these on the internet like the New York Library, National Archives, etc.
All the props to my teammates from 1800s! Your work is not forgotten.

I am so accustomed to see this type of puzzles in various puzzle adventure and point-and-click adventure games, that I can't perceive them as a standalone game with nothing else to it.

But maybe that's just me. The illustrations from books definitely look aesthetically pleasing.

Nice simple game. Enjoyed the game.

Mate this looks fun! Downloading :)

Will try this out. Looks really good!

This looks interesting. Good to see a great puzzle game on here.

This looks super comfy and relaxing, but I know I'd be raging around 3 puzzles in

Thanks. The price is not decided yet, but should rather be inexpensive, as most of games of puzzle genre.

There is no reason for this game to fail.

You might want to focus on very simple puzzles first because throwing the big compositions right at the beginning of the trailer is overwhelming.

This is actually really creative, I am looking forward to play this. Can you send the Steam link?

Damn, 10-20 hours is considered short?

I was thinking of games like a short hike/portal that can be beaten in an afternoon.

99.9 percent of my FTL: Faster Than Light runs are less than a couple hours.

With your requirements, Outer Wilds

Yeah 20 hours eats Doom 2016 and Eternal, as well as Alien Isolation.

Those aren't short games

Great game but I wish it wasn't a short game, when I completed it I was like "was that it?!".

I love these short games. Here’s a few that I recommend:

1. What Remains of Edith Finch
2. Asura’s Wrath
3. Brothers, a Tale of Two Sons
4. It Takes Two
5. Limbo
6. Inside
7. Little Nightmares
8. The Stanly Parable
9. Bastion
10. Stray
11. From Dust
12. The Wolf Among Us
13. Firewatch
14. A Plague Tale
15. Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice.
16. Shadow of the colossus
17. Journey
18. Wolfenstein: The New Order
19. Battlefield Bad Company 2 (story)
20. Spec Ops: The Line
21. Titanfall 2 (story)
22. Portal 1 and 2

I’m sure I can recommend more when I get home and can look through my game library.

Limbo and Inside from Playdead.

Puzzle platformers.

Both take 3-4 hours to complete. Because of this, I have played through both many times.

Limbo is really good. Inside is a masterpiece.

This game is amazing and so cute. I want a longer hike. The game engine was so good. It was really fun to move around the world

I hated this game. Its probably the whole "cute" genre that's not for me but I felt like it was designed for a 6 year old.

Yessir! Just played through mafia 1 not too long ago. Was a nice change of pace. Felt like playing through a movie

Discussion: I've really liked ones by Conceptis Puzzles lately. On android at least they have free to play ones without ads including weekly bonus puzzles (though it's money to buy additional packs). The pic-a-pix one is a neat play on suduku.

Discussion: Agent A: a puzzle in disguise. Best puzzle game I ever played.

Also "the last door" , it's a pixelated point and click adventure. The story is quite well written.

"The silent age" : another point and click adventure. Storyline involving time travel and puzzles are good enough.

The room series :as mentioned by someone else in the comments. There are quality puzzles.

The adventure escape series : They have a lot of different games on PlayStore and the quality of game varies with each one of them.

" Layton brothers mystery room" : Played it long time back. Not sure if it's still there on playstore but it was detective mystery puzzle game.

"No bodies" : mentioned by someone else in the comments. Definitely recommended. A very fresh idea.

"The frostrune" : another game I have heard a lot about but never played. You can give it a shot.

The cube escape series(rusty lake series): have played few games from this series. Good enough.

If OP hasn't played Baba is You, this is the correct answer. One of the best puzzle games of the last decade. I didn't even know it was on mobile until yesterday.

The Guides Axiom is pretty good. One of those ones that doesn't really tell you what to do, it just lets you work it out.

Discussion: please us the "not seeking solutions" flair so all our comments don't get removed for not having spoilers. As for my recommendations, Simon tanthams puzzle collection, I think it's called. It will entertain you for hours. Also sugar game by bart bonte

Never played a game that made me feel so brilliant and then so stupid all mixed together. It is viciously hard in later levels.

Mind bending solutions!

Rocket league. 5 min games

sudoku?

Grim Dawn 15-30 minutes to explore an area and unlock a new portal. so I play from portal to portal

Hades.

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