author: Daniel Stronski
The Best Short Video Games - 20 Titles to Complete in One Evening (2022 Update)
How many times have we complained that we don't have as much free time to play as we used to? Fortunately, there are many short and sweet gems on the market, which we can witness in full in just a few hours.
Table of Contents
- The Best Short Video Games - 20 Titles to Complete in One Evening (2022 Update)
- Little Nightmares
- Inside
- Journey
- Gone Home
- A Way Out
- Manual Samuel
- The Stanley Parable
- Thomas Was Alone
- Blair Witch
A Way Out
- Release date: March 23, 2018
- Genre: cooperative action-adventure game
- Average user ratings at Gamepressure.com: 8.1/10
- Average time needed to complete according to howlongtobeat.com: 6,5 hours
- Platforms: PC, PS4, XOne
The only production in this list that you won't be able to play solo. A Way Out was created from the beginning with two people working together in mind, but it's not the kind of cooperative play that the game market has accustomed us to. This original tale of two convicts escaping from prison can be explored by playing locally or online, but the screen will always be split anyway. However, this is not a technological limitation, but a unique form of narration.
When one part of the screen displays a cutscene, the player on the other side may have some task to perform. Sometimes split-screen works out of the ordinary, but everything here makes sense and affects the way the story is presented - interesting, engaging, funny in places, and even tragic at some points. We definitely recommend playing with a buddy in front of the same TV, and when you meet for this purpose - after all, you will not interrupt the plot for such a trivial reason as three o'clock in the morning...
Limbo
- Release date: July 21, 2010
- Genre: platform
- Average user ratings at Gamepressure.com: 8.1/10
- Average time needed to complete according to howlongtobeat.com: 3,5 hours
- Platforms: PC, PS4, XOne, Switch, PS3, X360, PSV, iOS, Android
Set in shades of black and white only. Quiet ambient in headphones. A boy lost in an undefined forest, where everything tries to kill him, and in a surprising and very violent way.
The developers, of course, didn't stop with just atmosphere and serving up disturbing scenes, complementing the whole thing with excellent platforming sequences, bringing Limbo to almost every piece of gaming hardware in the last eight years. Everyone wants to have this indie in their offer, because it's simply an excellent game - you'll jump a little, do some thinking, feel fear alternating with relief, and even score a solid mindfuck when you start looking for the hidden message. A real gem of digital distribution, after which you immediately run to the next game of this developer - Inside, which is described above in this list.
