Any extremely short games on Switch?

[Deleted member 15542]

Something that's an hour or two at most, replay value aside. Example: I bought Toree Saturn for 3€, pretty good game! I beat the main campaign in half an hour, but it took me a while to get the best ranks in all levels.

 

[flyingnimbus]

Play Limbo and Inside, both of which last 3 hours each and were designed by the same developers.

Good puzzle platformers if you enjoy that genre.

 

[Blamhammer]

ICEY is technically quick? There’s some visual novel like games such as Subsurface Circular, and Quarantine Circular. Untitled Goose Game is a quick one too.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I heard from a friend who owns it that you can finish Little Dragons Café in a very short time... Maybe not under an hour, but it certainly ain't a commitment.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

Yep, here are a few super short Switch games worth checking out:

• Donut County
• A Short Hike
• Part Time UFO
• Untitled Goose Game
• Downwell
• Superhot
• Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Florence
• Minutes
• Minit
• Gris
• What Comes After
• Toree 3D
• Katana ZERO (if you speed through)
• Pikuniku

Most of these are under 2 hours for the main story, and some have great replay value too.

 

[TheImmortalP]

There's some pretty sweet games on the Switch from the systems first year that are over in a less than 3 hours if you're really good at games:

Mighty Gunvolt Burst
Double Dragon 4
Volgarr the Viking
Sine Mora Ex
Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap
Ironcast

As an honorable mention, Tiny Barbarian DX is a little longer, but god it's fun!

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

The Switch has plenty of SHMUPs and assuming they all have a form of free play, they take less than 2 hours on average

 

[bjork]

There's a port of Impossible Mission, you can finish it in under an hour once you know what to do.

 

[Stare best girl]

Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Dodonpachi DaiOuJou, Resurrection, SaiDaiOuJou, Akai Katana, ESP Ra.De., Mushihime-Sama, Espgaluda and Deathsmiles I & II are there

 

[Ad Infinitum]

Play Limbo and Inside, both of which last 3 hours each and were designed by the same developers.

Good puzzle platformers if you enjoy that genre.

Thanks for reminding me to play Inside! Limbo was great!

 

[Not_Red]

Try the more simpler roguelikes or puzzle games. Some of my favorites are Dicey Dungeons and the Picross series. Each run on the former usually last between 30-40 minutes and Picross is just a good way to kill time without really worrying about anything other than the puzzle you are solving.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Narita Boy is a short game with great 80s tunes and visuals, a memorable world with memorable characters, fun combat, and some of the best animation you'll ever see in an indie game.

Someone mentioned Volgarr the Viking, it's a great game but you will NOT beat it quickly. You may find yourself spending hours just trying to beat one level.

Streets of Red Devil's Dare Deluxe is a fun, Konami style, 2d beat 'em up that's about as long as an arcade beat 'em up should be.

Try the Voice of Cards games, I don't know exactly how long it took to finish them but they are like mini-rpgs. Fairly easy and not that long to play through. There's three games and you can play them in any order

New Super Lucky's Tale is a fairly short game if you just blitz through it. It's an excellent platformer.

Tales from Space Mutant Blobs Attack is a short, fun game

Guacamelee is a metroidvania game that isn't super long.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

I heard from a friend who owns it that you can finish Little Dragons Café in a very short time... Maybe not under an hour, but it certainly ain't a commitment.

I must have been playing it wrong then

 

[Aziamuth]

Yep, here are a few super short Switch games worth checking out:

• Donut County
• A Short Hike
• Part Time UFO
• Untitled Goose Game
• Downwell
• Superhot
• Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Florence
• Minutes
• Minit
• Gris
• What Comes After
• Toree 3D
• Katana ZERO (if you speed through)
• Pikuniku

Most of these are under 2 hours for the main story, and some have great replay value too.

Downwell is, honestly, quite incredible. For something as simple as "going down a well", it has quite the depth and is very fun.

 

[Kamako]

Mouthwashing is a 2~3 hour game you can play on the Switch.
Not very cheery, mind.

 

[RETRO-VETRO RETRO-VETRO]

Downwell is, honestly, quite incredible. For something as simple as "going down a well", it has quite the depth and is very fun.

It is!

 

[TheImmortalP]

Someone mentioned Volgarr the Viking, it's a great game but you will NOT beat it quickly. You may find yourself spending hours just trying to beat one level.

Fair. In that case, go with:
Double Dragon 4
Sine Mora Ex
Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap
Ironcast

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Something that's an hour or two at most, replay value aside. Example: I bought Toree Saturn for 3€, pretty good game! I beat the main campaign in half an hour, but it took me a while to get the best ranks in all levels.

If you've already played the Toree games, then I got nothin' for ya

 

[Rocket2049]

all three Cat Quest games, can be done pretty fast if you don't care to 100% or play again by new game plus.
(there's new game plus, stronger enemies, higher level equipment, and Mew mode which is modifiers thrown in, LOTS of replay value, 2 and 3 are co-op)

Trine games 1,2,3 are pretty short i beat all three back to back in one day in co-op (faster WITH more players, even 2 players makes trine 1/2 a joke you can fly over everything in the game literally)

child of light, if you gun through it on normal, is pretty easy, wiiU version took me 6 hours to beat twice with new game plus (higher level enemies)

Fairune collection, 3 very short games (Zelda like, no attack button you just tackle enemies to damage, LOTS of puzzles, may need a guide)

Mario RPG is one of the SHORTEST RPGs out there, SNES version took me 9 hours to 100% everything in it, switch version has an easier mode

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Momodora is 3 hours. NG+ is even shorter.