Top 5 Video Games You Can Finish in One Weekend and Think About for Years
Short games with no filler and no 80-hour commitment, just endings that stay with you.
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Portal — Valve
You can beat it in an afternoon, and it's still the tightest design lesson in gaming, plus the funniest villain ever voiced through a speaker.
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What Remains of Edith Finch — Giant Sparrow
Each family member's story plays like a different game, and the cannery sequence is the most affecting thing you'll do with a controller.
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Inside — Playdead
It's wordless, bleak and almost perfect, and that ending will leave you staring at the credits wondering what you just helped happen.
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Firewatch — Campo Santo
Most of it is just two lonely people talking over walkie-talkies, and it lands harder than most blockbuster stories ever manage.
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Journey — thatgamecompany
Two strangers who can't talk cross a desert together, and somehow it's the most human multiplayer game anyone has made.