Portal 1
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Yeah, Portal 1 & 2 for me.
Well the writer said yes to 3 but we need valve.
Portal 2
The most recent is Stray. I loved the worldbuilding and well, the cat.
you gotta play Knytt Underground. I think you'll like it. 2d physicals-platformer open-world game
Half life 1 and portal 1
What Remains of Edith Finch. I ended up in tears after playing it. So beautiful.
Also on Android Monument Valley and its sequel. Mesmerizing games.
antichamber literally kept me up all night until I finished it at 9am
I also completed bioshock infinite in one sitting with my brother when I was younger. That shits a core memory for me now lol
I first played Infinite in college and the game took me about 15 hours to complete on PC. That game is a work of frickin art. One of the prettiest ever made.
I actually only just played BioShock 1 & 2 for the first time recently because the whole series was on sale in the Nintendo store for dirt cheap. So I ended up playing the whole series on our Switch while my wife watched. She's more of a watcher than a player. I've been loving her watching me play the new Zelda. It's cute.
Return of the obra dinn. Both because it's good and because I was worried my train of thought would be interrupted if I took a break. Took me ~9 hours and gave me a really bad headache afterwards, no regrets.
Spec Ops: The Line. I started playing it in the morning, the story kept me engaged (and the gameplay was fun enough). I played it all day to its conclusion.
Ironic!
Why?
Because it's a game that's constantly telling the player that they should stop playing it. That everything is going to get worse if you do and it's all your fault. That you're going to cross the line again and again and again until every single person in the game is doomed. And then we play through the entire thing anyway, because it's so fucking good.
Inside!
I didn't do the whole game in one sitting but I was glued to my chair for hours when I started Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Remember looking at them time on my phone and going, "huh, it's after midnight". Then again later and finding out it was the beginning of daylight savings time. Went to sleep, woke back up, and played all day again. Fantastic game.
One of my fondest gaming memories, too. I was sucked into the world. Had a rough time back then and it was the perfect escape.
The Last of Us, Cyberpunk
Carrion. I was surprised how much fun it was. There's some nice but not overly difficult puzzles and some frantic bursts of combat
Civilization III. I mean try to do it in one sitting.
Devil May Cry, in an evening. Great experience.
Not quite one sitting but very quickly: Ori and the Blind Forest, Maneater
Sleeping Dogs pulled me in real hard. I‘m super salty there‘s no Sleeping Dogs 2, I loved everything about this game.
If any of you like GTA style gameplay, Sleeping Dogs is that plus kung fu movie flair (even has a cheesy king fu story DLC).
Nioh, Nioh 2, Code Vein, Dark Souls 2 (I know), Fairy Fencer F, and Ni no Kuni 2 also put me in chains. Crusader Kings III has no real story but it made so many evenings disappear that I try to legit stay away from it lol
The standout example of this for me would be Qube. I was having a bit of a difficult time when I first bought the game and that soundtrack lured me in and getting through to the end just became a total compulsion. I was a lot calmer by the time it was over, too.
Kairo had a bit of a similar effect on me, except that the very last jump in the whole game just would not work, spoiling the zen. Quantum Conundrum also got a full playthrough in one sitting but tbh I think that was because I wasn't enthusiastic about coming back to it another day.
steamworld dig, started playing one morning and before i knew it it was evening and i was done lol
Surprisingly, The Witcher 2!
I believe 3 and its DLC had come out at that point, meanwhile, i had paused the first, which I had bought on release, somewhere before its third act. Somehow I got back into it and finished it in a few weeks.
Then I booted up the second opus and the changes were so drastic! It was amazing! Everything that was a hassle in the first was pretty much gone!
And that story was fantastic, with a proper dilemma at the heart of it : you had to pick a size and stick with the consequences.
I finished the entire thing in a very long weekend, completely enthralled and picked up the third instantly afterwards.
And somehow things got even better!
The Witcher 2 takes around 24 hours to complete the main story. Are you sure that you finished it in one sitting?
There was some sleeping, but at my age, playing a game over the course of one long weekend is definitely "one sitting" ;)
Little Nightmares, What Remains of Edith Finch.
Primordia.
The Excavation Of Hob’s Barrow.
System Shock (1994).
Inmost - short platformer/metroidvania game with a brutally emotional storyline.
Far: Lone Sail - short puzzle/platformer game. Chill as fuck, great atmosphere and music. Story is only really gleamed from the environment that you traverse.
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead. Because I usually die in like the first week in game lol
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. Granted I had a lot less responsibilities back then but I thoroughly enjoyed the game.
Me and my friend used to play that a lot back in the day. It had a great co-op mode. Did you see it got re-released about a year and a half ago?
Oh my gosh, I played Black Mesa before the endgame released, you are a scholar sir
I've always loved Half-Life, and Black Mesa really does it justice. Xen was beautiful, even if it was still quite frustrating towards the end. I bought it at the 1.0 release, would be great to see if they've added/changed things now... they seem to be really dedicated to updating it!
God of War on Ps2. I remember starting in the morning and finishing when it was dark outside. In fact I think I skipped eating and not even using the bathroom. I remember rushing to the toilet after beating it since my bladder was about to burst hahaha
Max Payne!
Plants Vs. Zombies!
My wife and I just sat there like... zombies... for the whole day and night until we finished it, and then went to bed surprised and happy when we got our musical reward at the end!
The Flash gaming era at it's best.
Stray.
I wanna say Yoshis Island for SNES but it was so long ago I don't remember if it was one or two sittings. Dunno about the "that was so good" part though. Just completed it :)