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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[–] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This goes for most of these first person puzzle games. Once you solve the puzzle its not very fun to do it again.

Portal 1 and 2, the Witness, Talos Principle 1 and 2, Manifold Garden - all worth a play through. Next on my list to try is Viewfinder.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I play through both Portal games every few years; maybe every 5 or 6. I think I’m due again soon.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I feel portal could be replayed if you focused too hard on the puzzles the first time through, there were quite a few secrets worth exploring in that world, though none too deep unfortunately

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 8 months ago

I kind of got bored of manifold garden. I guess it was the lack of any story. I just had no motivation to continue.

[–] sxt@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I feel like portal 2 can get by on a playthrough every so many years based on the writing/VA making it enjoyable even if you half remember the puzzles.