I.e., games that hooked you in and you couldn’t stop playing until it was finished. Not games that just happened to be unexpectedly short. And by “completed” I guess I mean the main story etc, not 100%ing the game :).

For me, it would be Catherine, Bioshock Infinite and Black Mesa (although I think I got to the final area then had to go to sleep and complete it the next day). I also played an ungodly amount of Hades in one sitting, but didn’t get the “full” ending in one day.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      you gotta play Knytt Underground. I think you’ll like it. 2d physicals-platformer open-world game

  • madception@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    What Remains of Edith Finch. I ended up in tears after playing it. So beautiful.

    Also on Android Monument Valley and its sequel. Mesmerizing games.

  • Jck2905@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I also completed bioshock infinite in one sitting with my brother when I was younger. That shits a core memory for me now lol

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I first played Infinite in college and the game took me about 15 hours to complete on PC. That game is a work of frickin art. One of the prettiest ever made.

      I actually only just played BioShock 1 & 2 for the first time recently because the whole series was on sale in the Nintendo store for dirt cheap. So I ended up playing the whole series on our Switch while my wife watched. She’s more of a watcher than a player. I’ve been loving her watching me play the new Zelda. It’s cute.

  • caut_R@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Sleeping Dogs pulled me in real hard. I‘m super salty there‘s no Sleeping Dogs 2, I loved everything about this game.

    If any of you like GTA style gameplay, Sleeping Dogs is that plus kung fu movie flair (even has a cheesy king fu story DLC).

    Nioh, Nioh 2, Code Vein, Dark Souls 2 (I know), Fairy Fencer F, and Ni no Kuni 2 also put me in chains. Crusader Kings III has no real story but it made so many evenings disappear that I try to legit stay away from it lol

  • bodmcjones@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The standout example of this for me would be Qube. I was having a bit of a difficult time when I first bought the game and that soundtrack lured me in and getting through to the end just became a total compulsion. I was a lot calmer by the time it was over, too.

    Kairo had a bit of a similar effect on me, except that the very last jump in the whole game just would not work, spoiling the zen. Quantum Conundrum also got a full playthrough in one sitting but tbh I think that was because I wasn’t enthusiastic about coming back to it another day.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Surprisingly, The Witcher 2!
    I believe 3 and its DLC had come out at that point, meanwhile, i had paused the first, which I had bought on release, somewhere before its third act. Somehow I got back into it and finished it in a few weeks.
    Then I booted up the second opus and the changes were so drastic! It was amazing! Everything that was a hassle in the first was pretty much gone!
    And that story was fantastic, with a proper dilemma at the heart of it : you had to pick a size and stick with the consequences.
    I finished the entire thing in a very long weekend, completely enthralled and picked up the third instantly afterwards.
    And somehow things got even better!

    • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The Witcher 2 takes around 24 hours to complete the main story. Are you sure that you finished it in one sitting?

      • fibojoly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 years ago

        There was some sleeping, but at my age, playing a game over the course of one long weekend is definitely “one sitting” ;)