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One-Sitting BANGERS

Written by Jordan Allen Lewis · list · updated 45m ago

Start it after dinner and see the credits before bed.

An evening that starts after dinner and ends before it becomes a bad idea on a work night. That is the whole filter: four hours or less on HowLongToBeat's main story, BANG 80 or better, 189 games. The 80 floor does more work here than the four hours does. Short games get wrecked by dollars per hour, so two hours reads as expensive next to a ninety hour grind, and anything clearing 80 with a runtime that small got there on review quality. Hexcells leads it at 97 and runs 2 hours. The Room Two sits at 91.4 and runs 3.1 hours, which is 21,663 reviews agreeing that a phone puzzle port is worth an evening. Gorogoa and INSIDE are the ones people expect here, and the per-hour math keeps both out. Gorogoa runs 1.8 hours at a $14.99 list and scores 72.4. INSIDE runs 3.6 hours at $24.99 and scores 65.

Main-story length and session length are different measurements. Some of these are sandboxes. People Playground is on the list at 97 with 3.7 hours, and that number reflects how long people poke at it before the tracker stops counting. Anything replay-shaped gets in through that side door, so trust the runtime column over the name on the list.