Games

OneShot is very much based on its story and immersion. Contrary to the title’s implication, there’s not so much potential for risk during play, even if it’s themed that way, but it does feel like any efforts to repeat the game would ruin some of the immersive thoughts present.

13 sentinels: aegis rim

Deathloop's story basically means that you're replaying the game because you failed your previous attempt at escaping. You can play it more than once, the game encourages you to, and I kinda want to, but I never did because I already won. In a lot of games replays are basically just "fresh starts" and here, they are part of the story, and ironically, that's what's stopping me.

Scanner Sombre

Interesting main mechanic, good storytelling, but once you finish it, that's pretty much it.

Maaaaaaybe replaying the first room you start in with all the upgrades, since you can see more clearly, but that's it.

For me pretty much every single linear / story type game. Even great ones I sometimes attempted to have another run but would immediately get bored and ended up quitting. They just don't really offer anything to me to make it worth it. Even a lot of New Game Plus modes aren't cutting it, because they're typically just some extra items or abilities.

Penumbra Overture, never finished it but was fun exploring and figuring out stuff.

Some people might disagree with me, but Celeste.

Escape Simulator definitely fits the bill.

It's great, but all about the discovery.

Midnight Suns was like that for me. The tactical combat was interesting and could have had replay value, but all the chores and conversations you have to do to progress the story made this a "no way" for a second playthrough. Absolutely worth it to go through once though, if you are into turn based combat games and marvel characters.

I'm surprised no one has said Outer Wilds. Amazing story about space exploration.

The vanishing of Ethan carter

I absolutely loved Recursive Ruin and I'm still waiting to forget the solutions.

Danganronpa, honestly any of them. Once you know the story, who the killers are, and the twists, it quickly loses it's charm. The only way afterwards is to watch other people play it for the first time.

Brothers: A tale of two sons maybe.

If you liked chants of shenaar, check out heaven's vault. I think it does what chants of shenaar does, but better, and it did it years before. It was a bit strange to me to see chants of shenaar get so much hype, but have heaven's vault stay slept on.

Observation and Deliver us the Moon

This game, One Chance, even goes beyond to try and make sure you only play it once

Would you count NG+ as replayability? I know for Nier Automata and Armored Core 6, it's basically part of the story and you haven't finished until you've unlocked all of the main paths. There is enough new stuff each playthrough for it to be unique though.

Breathedge - SciFi game where you are stranded in a small shuttle after your main ship exploded, you'll need to fly around in a space suit with limited air supply, gather stuff, examine objects to identify possible devices you can cobble together from random space trash, and eventually build and upgrade your equipment to the point that you can progress to another area, and so on.

Once you know how specific items are built, the solution is near identical, just some components might be drifting in another part of the screen.