Shortest non-mobile game you’ve paid money for

[dock]

What are the shortest games you've ever paid money for and come away pretty satisfied?

Paper Plane Airplane Chase is a DSiware game that only takes a few minutes to play but I really enjoyed. It's a much expanded version of the game in Wario Ware.


Any favourite games that are very short but still a paid game?

 

[jetpacks was yes]

I dunno, maybe Gris? Worth every penny.

 

[Khayle]

I would say Abzu, or Gris.

 

[Deleted member 47843]

Journey or Abzu probably.

Those were probably 2-3 hours. Maybe some of the walking sims like Gone Home. Gris took me around 5 hours.

 

[Springy]

Gone Home, maybe. Think it was about 90 minutes. Very satisfying.

 

[CannonFodder52]

First that comes to mind is Paratopic at about 45-60 minutes. It was great and definitely worth the money though.

That said, I'm sure there are shorter games that I got in bundles and never played.

 

[CarthOhNoes]

The original Portal.

 

[LonestarZues]

It would have to be one of or all of the following:

Journey
Blackwood Crossing
What Remains of Edith Finch
1979 Revolution: Black Friday

I loved Journey and What Remains of Edith Finch and am lukewarm on Blackwood Crossing and 1979 Revolution: Black Friday.

Edit: Totally forgot about Gone Home. That might be the shortest game out of all the others.

 

[SxP]

A Bird's Story was like an hour or something. I got it on sale, so it was worth the cash.

 

[vaderise]

Probably Journey.
What a game though...

 

[harz-marz]

Kamiko on Switch. Really worth the small spend!

 

[dock]

Journey
Blackwood Crossing
What Remains of Edith Finch

Click to shrink...

Edith Finch felt like quite a good chunk! I loved how it was sliced into chapters so I could take time to unpack.

I like Journey but it was tiring to play through to the end on my first run.

 

[starrywhispers]

Journey was about 2 hours, and absolutely worth it.

 

[More_Badass]

Kitty Horrorshow's Anatomy
https://kittyhorrorshow.itch.io/anatomy

 

[plebc]

RDR2, took me a few minutes to finish with it.

 

[Mik2121]

I think most likely Journey? About 2 hours for the first run, and I absolutely loved it.

 

[HyGogg]

I had games back in the 8-bit days that were a half hour long if you could survive.

 

[BassForever]

The first Jake Hunter game on DS. So short I bought it after school around 2:30, was back at the store around 5:00 to return it saying it didn't work. Thank goodness Gamestop doesn't keep crap shrink wrapped half the time so I was able to pull that off, plus it was the only copy in the store so I got to buy something else.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

chuchel, an adventure game on steam by amanita design
took 4 hours to 100% and get all achievements (and i was stuck for a bit, it can probably be done in 3 hours), but i still thought it was an amazing game and worth the money.

edit: actually i have another game on steam that i 100%d and got all achievements even quicker. it's year walk which i finished in 2 hours, but it's a port of a mobile game, and i had already finished that a few years ago and remembered all the solutions to the puzzles so if it's your first time it'll probably take 3 or 4 hours.

 

[Tohsaka]

Gone Home or Journey, probably.

 

[Chessguy1]

batman arkham VR took less than an hr but i was happy with it

 

[Deleted member 7450]

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons I think

 

[cowbanana]

Journey and Gris. No regrets though, quality over quantity.

 

[Nocturnowl]

Journey

Spoiler

Not worth it

 

[Pirateluigi]

Probably Gone Home, but it was worth every cent

 

[Orayn]

Donut County and it was worth every penny.

 

[Bakercat]

Ground Zeros. Still good game though

 

[Deleted member 48813]

To the Moon is probably the shortest, either that or The Room (Neat puzzle game). Both left me satisfied, especially To the Moon. Can't wait for the animated movie to come out so I can cry again.

 

[ApexNorth]

Energy Cycle took me 25 minutes. Paid less than $2 for it though.

 

[Chivalry]

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die.

 

[SirFritz]

A whole bunch of shmup ports. A lot of shmups can be "completed" in in around 25-50 minutes.

 

[Hage]

Attack of the Friday monsters, I played ten minutes a day for a couple weeks for around 2.40 hours in total.

 

[Strangelove_77]

Journey. It was totally worth it.

 

[Carassius Auratus]

Super Mario Land. Fun game that I played a lot when I was a kid, but I never beat the China level :(

 

[dock]

Bonus points if you can suggest games that cost less than a million dollars to make 🤔

 

[Kyoufu]

Probably Abzu in recent memory, or maybe Bound.

I don't want to say that Mayo game ok.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Late Shift. Both very short, but also enjoyable.

 

[melikefishnchips]

Probably Donut County.

Bought it on sale for $10 and platted it in one 4 hour or so sitting. Was very disappointed

Really surprised that this game is getting such praise. it's a cute and quirky game due to the dialogue and characters but the gameplay is shallow.

 

[Lampa]

Virginia, 9.99€. I think I finished it in a little under 2 hours.

 

[The Spoony Hou]

Kamiko on Switch. Really worth the small spend!

Click to shrink...

Yup, Kamiko, which took me about one hour to beast the first time. Great game, but it was even shorter than I expected, coming from the guys earlier Fairune series. I wish Kamiko at least had a bestiary, though that's kind of a pointless fluff.

 

[The Spoony Hou]

DP, quoted myself instead of editing. SMH!

 

[toythatkills]

Most recently, Minit. I was having a lot of fun with it but then completed it out of the blue in just over an hour. I was expecting a lot more content but I think I'd mistakenly stumbled upon a really efficient route through that missed many quests, though obviously not knowing that I was very underwhelmed when the credits rolled.

 

[Amnixia]

Zone of the Enders I think, or the second. Both weren't that long.

 

[Deleted member 35777]

Ground Zeros.

Even though you can beat it in minutes I played it for over a hundred hours.

 

[N.Domixis]

Geometry Dash is the only one I ever purchased

 

[KDR_11k]

This one's pretty hard to beat in this category:

Around 15 minutes or so, depending on how long you stare at the scenery.

 

[Fugo]

Crimson Shroud on 3DS. A small gem by the genius of Matsuno. It's short but very replayable. Was worth it!

 

[antitrop]

Thirty Flights of Loving, for sure.

Subtract ~5 minutes for idling in menus.

 

[Rivuz]

VVVVVV , beaten in a couple of hours.

 

[Oscillator]

I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1 on XBLA. The game ends when the song does, which is about 13 minutes.



As for a physical game, if you count a single skater's career as finishing it, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1.

I also got Worms on Xbox 360 for free with a memory card.