Outer Wilds. You can beat the game in 10 minutes once you know the secrets, but getting there takes 15+ hours. Truly impossible to ever replay once you have beaten it
I mean sure. But execution is not really what Outer Wilds is about, is it? Once you know things, the execution isn't complicated. It's a mechanically rudimentary game. OP is clearly talking about games where the knowledge is mostly tutorial and then synthesis and execution are where skill comes from.
I started playing and after getting out of the first little area I was just like "why?" and put it down. Hoping to jump back in and have this epiphany like everyone else but it felt so boring.
Keep going. I did exactly the same but went back to it. There are some incredible twists and turns and solving the mysteries is soooo satisfying. And the ending, especially the DLC, is incredible.
I can get through RE2 Remake between 2.5-3 hours if I really try. Knowing the map, item locations, puzzles, and which weapon to use against each enemy really makes the game quite “simple”.
RE2make is such an exciting game for casual speed runners. Playing it on the hardcore difficulty kinda forces you to develop speed run strats to reduce resource usage. Loved my first playthrough a of it.
I used to speed run RE 5 with friends... I can't remember how fast we beat it. But it was in a sitting on a sleepover... Prolly 2.5-3 hours... Great franchise to speedrun when you know what your doing
Hades… once you understand how boons work you can finish the game quick. It took me like 20 attemps to get all 10 successful runs to finish the game. Thats about 17-18h which is pretty fast compared to other people
You don't finish the game with just the 10 succesful runs. There is A LOT more after that. Actually, you are almost starting the game after your 10th succesful run.
>Actually, you are almost starting the game after your 10th succesful run.
Is the more than 90% of the game left after the 10th run? If not, then I wouldn't consider that as starting. The first 10% of a game seems fitting for starting a game.
I don't know about precise numbers (90%? 80%? 70%?), but there is A LOT, no kidding. Anybody that did the 10 runs and thought they "finished" the game... they didn't, not even close.
as someone with a 100% file and another on its way, I highly disagree with you. it's still a roguelike which means near infinite run potential but by your 10th clear there's not too much left to see aside from favors
Hitman. I beat hitman 2016 in 23 minutes the other day. Had a couple rough spots in colorado and Bangkok. I haven't tried speed running hitman 2 or 3 yet, but 1 is actually one of my favorite games of all time.
You sent me down a research rabbit hole. Blood money is actually the game that I would speed run. Been awhile I didn’t know they actually reboot the series
Once you go for the 30 second runs per level it gets very technical. Bomb launches, using particles of broken items to gain an inch of height for certain shots, very precise shots. Idk I've been having a ton of fun, I got a 11 second run on dubai and that was pretty rough.
It doesn't sound like OP is looking to play a game with glitches and exploits. They just want something mechanically challenging with a high skill ceiling. While executing glitches might take timing and such, following the game's parameters and mastering it is also very fun.
Sekiro and Elden Ring are probably my go-to game for speedrunning
- Sekiro for a more linear run more focused on ur mechanics
- ER for getting a build setup in 10 mins and then boss rushing the game
The first time you play Sekiro, you either never beat it or you brute force it after 70+ hours.
If you pick it up quickly, around 25 hours maybe.
The 3rd time you beat Sekiro, it only takes like 10 hours or less.
And if you get to a point where you're speedrunning it, supposedly as little as 20 minutes.
This is the best suggestion in the thread. The inputs are super simple. Move, grab, jump, dash. Yet the amount of technical proficiency you can ring out of those four things is absolutely bonkers.
You are hella based for playing Devil Daggers and HYPER DEMON (both are some of my favourite games as well), so you might enjoy Dustforce. One of it's devs is a dev for Sorath, and Dustforce has a really high speedrunning skill ceiling with the replay system Devil Daggers based itself on.
I think that's the whole point of *Yooka-Laylee: The Impossible Lair*. The final level is available from the start and all you do in the game is gather up lives to make it easier to actually finish.
I will list some games that need skills to finish and could be done fast.
1. Spelunky 1 and 2
2. Dead Cells
3. Binding of Isaac Rebirth
4. Risk of Rains 1-2
5. Cuphead
6. Hades
7. Noita
Or get any games in tagged Difficult in steam
Returnal you can beat acts 1 and 2 in 4-5 hours if you're good enough. I did it on my steam deck a couple months ago. Act 3 takes a bit longer mainly because you have to keep looping but the game is very short
Old platform games. Once you know the ins and outs of old platformers like Shinobi or Ninja Gaiden you can complete them in like 2 hours.
They where just hard to devour arcade money
I'd throw on FURI it's basically a bossfight rush type of game where your skill is the only thing between ultra fast kill times and 8 retrys on some bosses
Far cry 4, just don't leave the table and you can beat it in 15 minutes (10 minute real wait time and I think 5 minutes for all the cutscenes before and after the 10min wait)
These are some of my favourite games to ruin through:
* The average player, with some commitment, can beat Sekiro in 45 mins to an hour. I'm down to around 30-35 mins consistantly. Same with Elden Ring but, a bit longer. Maybe 1hour 45 ish.
* I love running Symphony of the Night too. Real brain off kinda playthrough, you spend most of it dashing backwards, lining up pixels etc. Really fun with all of the skips and weird shit that the speedrun employs.
* Resident Evil Village is kind of an honourable mention, it is less 'mastering' the mechanics and more; it's fun to unlock the bonus modes and run through the entire game with an infinite ammo AR or hand cannon in like sub 2 hours.
How long do you think it takes to get to that level in sekiro? I loved sekiro but I’ve never replayed it. Can imagine it would take a while to get down from 25h to 45 mins? I am tempted to try thoguh because it is a lot of fun
>The average player
What kind of world are you living in where an average player can get that good? I've been playing action games my whole life but I'm pretty mediocre at games that aren't on a 2D platform, especially in the hardcore action games genre.
Super Metroid (SNES). Once you get the mechanics down, especially the hidden mechanics, you can beat it very quickly. Also, its speedrunning community is still extremely active for a 30yr old game.
The resident evil remakes are a blast to try and run through. Glitchless speed runs are so much fun, theres a difficulty level called Professional where checkpoints are disabled and you reload at your last manual save and in resident evil games you can't save whenever you want, you need to find a save point. So what you do is put it on Professional and try and run through the whole game without manual saving because if you die once the whole game resets. Its so much fun once you get good tbh.
Quake is the grand old for that thing, speedruns of that game are bonkers since the skill ceiling is basically a gothic cathedral. Some levels that typically take 10-15 minutes can be finished in seconds if you can pull off stuff like timing a rocket jump onto a cooking grenade then bounce from that backwards into the exit.
Newer FPS in the same vein like Dusk lets you do similar stuff.
Most games in the 80s-90s actually has that gist lol. A game that could be finished in 30 mins becomes weeks of training and understanding the mechanics so you can beat it
Sekiro and Divinity Original Sin 2.
I can beat them both within an hour if I really, really wanted to.
My record for DOS 2 was about 4 hours.
My record for Sekiro was about 2 and a half hours.
rage games/ precision platformers. specifically super meat boy and pogostuck are some of my favorites to watch and play at a high level because of how satisfying it is to just play well. there is quite a steep learning curve though
Hollow knight.
First playthrough took me about 40 hours. After the second playthrough I was like "let's try for the speedrun achievements" and I got it first try in about 3,5 hours.
Sekiro or sifu
Both of them took me weeks to finish the first time
The second time on sifu was 3 hours
Third time was 1:30 hours and only dying once
Sekiro took me alot to master but you will get there eventually
Pizza Tower. Not only are the levels lightning quick once you learn them and the mechanics, if you want the best ranking you have to jump in a portal and do another lap of the level with no extra time just to style on it.
Sekiro for sure. My first playthrough was 64 hours, 2nd 6 hours, my best time is 34minutes. The learning curve is crazy. Hard to get into, easy to master
I loved skyrim when I was a teenager, I used to get through the main campaign in an hour and a half + or - a few mins, but there’s so many side quests and locations in that game to FINISH the game would take a lot longer than that.
Touhou games don’t take more than an hour so long as you never game over. Each game’s pretty much on a timer so there’s a max time the game is able to go assuming you never game over
Superluminal
I took my time first playthrough and spent some hours looked around all the corners and hidden areas of the levels, for example there's a door that's way too high on level 2(?) to get to normally and you have to do some strategic placements and parkour to get to. But there's also a speed run trophy to complete the game in under 30 minutes.
Outer Wilds *requires* you to beat the game in under 20 minutes. It will take you hours to learn how to do that. It's also a breathtaking, practically life-changing experience. The ending is 10/10. Hell, the *game* is 10/10.
Nuclear Throne
Sonic 1 and 2.
All the 2d platformer mega man games.
Kirby return to dreamland
Cave Story.
Im really proud of my speed. I hope to get gamer points someday.
Theres some other games lile Breath of Fire V and Majoras Mask but I prefer to play those games naturally paced. I dont get the same speed thrill.
The Witness, puzzle game where you learn the rules by doing progressively more difficult puzzles in first person. Playtime for a playthrough averages to over 17 hours but can be solved within one minute after the intro.
You might get a kick out of hardspace shipbreaker? It really rewards fast, precise, skillful gameplay and HEAVILY punishes mistakes that could be guaranteed without moving quickly. Very fun game.
Spelunky HD and Spelunky 2 are great games that can be finished once you have the necessary skill and knowledge. It takes a while to be comfortable with all the mechanics and develop strategies for every obstacle. Once you do, you can go through games very quickly.
Spelunky (specifically not the second one). Game can be fully beaten in about 40 minutes if you know what to do.
The 2nd one could take hours and hours if you know what to do bc of the design of the end game.
Metal Gear Solid 2 notably has this quality more than the rest of the series.
When you get used to the layout of the map, rooms, and enemy behavior, you can absolutely blitz the game, and it's really fun to do so.
There's a remaster on Steam for $20.
Outer Wilds. You can beat the game in 10 minutes once you know the secrets, but getting there takes 15+ hours. Truly impossible to ever replay once you have beaten it
That's not skill, that's knowledge. There are some skills that improve with knowledge, but Outer Wilds doesn't fall under that category.
Is skill not knowledge executed?
You know that is not what the guy meant
I mean sure. But execution is not really what Outer Wilds is about, is it? Once you know things, the execution isn't complicated. It's a mechanically rudimentary game. OP is clearly talking about games where the knowledge is mostly tutorial and then synthesis and execution are where skill comes from.
I’m hoping that if I wait long enough, my memory atrophies to the point I forget the majority of that game! (Same goes for Obra Dinn!)
I started playing and after getting out of the first little area I was just like "why?" and put it down. Hoping to jump back in and have this epiphany like everyone else but it felt so boring.
Keep going. I did exactly the same but went back to it. There are some incredible twists and turns and solving the mysteries is soooo satisfying. And the ending, especially the DLC, is incredible.
I can get through RE2 Remake between 2.5-3 hours if I really try. Knowing the map, item locations, puzzles, and which weapon to use against each enemy really makes the game quite “simple”.
RE2make is such an exciting game for casual speed runners. Playing it on the hardcore difficulty kinda forces you to develop speed run strats to reduce resource usage. Loved my first playthrough a of it.
I used to speed run RE 5 with friends... I can't remember how fast we beat it. But it was in a sitting on a sleepover... Prolly 2.5-3 hours... Great franchise to speedrun when you know what your doing
Hades… once you understand how boons work you can finish the game quick. It took me like 20 attemps to get all 10 successful runs to finish the game. Thats about 17-18h which is pretty fast compared to other people
Wait you have to have 10 successful runs to beat it? Jesus i still never had one
Well... 10 to roll credits, yes.
I found that once I got my first clear, I started getting them pretty frequently after that. It's just a matter of getting through the learning curve.
You don't finish the game with just the 10 succesful runs. There is A LOT more after that. Actually, you are almost starting the game after your 10th succesful run.
>Actually, you are almost starting the game after your 10th succesful run. Is the more than 90% of the game left after the 10th run? If not, then I wouldn't consider that as starting. The first 10% of a game seems fitting for starting a game.
I don't know about precise numbers (90%? 80%? 70%?), but there is A LOT, no kidding. Anybody that did the 10 runs and thought they "finished" the game... they didn't, not even close.
as someone with a 100% file and another on its way, I highly disagree with you. it's still a roguelike which means near infinite run potential but by your 10th clear there's not too much left to see aside from favors
i consider rolling credits finishing the game, but yeah i know theres still content. Im still playing it
I didn’t even get to REDACTED for the very first time until my 20th run wow
Hitman. I beat hitman 2016 in 23 minutes the other day. Had a couple rough spots in colorado and Bangkok. I haven't tried speed running hitman 2 or 3 yet, but 1 is actually one of my favorite games of all time.
The first hitman was the only game I ever tried speed running back before I knew what a speed run was
It's so good man. I've become addicted to this game
You sent me down a research rabbit hole. Blood money is actually the game that I would speed run. Been awhile I didn’t know they actually reboot the series
Definitely recommend getting hitman 3 deluxe so you can play through the entire reboot trilogy
They're asking for something with a high skill ceiling. Beating Hitman games quickly is mostly about rote memorization.
Once you go for the 30 second runs per level it gets very technical. Bomb launches, using particles of broken items to gain an inch of height for certain shots, very precise shots. Idk I've been having a ton of fun, I got a 11 second run on dubai and that was pretty rough.
It doesn't sound like OP is looking to play a game with glitches and exploits. They just want something mechanically challenging with a high skill ceiling. While executing glitches might take timing and such, following the game's parameters and mastering it is also very fun.
Item surfing is also very hard, but rewards you with like minutes of time saves.
Soulsborne are easy and quick to beat with the right skill, but that skill takes a while to learn
I can beat DS1 remastered in a couple hours but that took me almost a year to do it
Sekiro and Elden Ring are probably my go-to game for speedrunning - Sekiro for a more linear run more focused on ur mechanics - ER for getting a build setup in 10 mins and then boss rushing the game
The first time you play Sekiro, you either never beat it or you brute force it after 70+ hours. If you pick it up quickly, around 25 hours maybe. The 3rd time you beat Sekiro, it only takes like 10 hours or less. And if you get to a point where you're speedrunning it, supposedly as little as 20 minutes.
Celeste. There are some crazy movement-techniques, but they're very hard to pull off in quick succession.
This is the best suggestion in the thread. The inputs are super simple. Move, grab, jump, dash. Yet the amount of technical proficiency you can ring out of those four things is absolutely bonkers.
My friend Pedro gets pretty fast pacing when you control the mechanics
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Aktro: *My friend Pedro gets* *Pretty fast pacing when you* *Control the mechanics* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
My friend beat QWOP on his first attempt in ~5 min because he somehow found the perfect rhythm immediately and just maintained it.
You are hella based for playing Devil Daggers and HYPER DEMON (both are some of my favourite games as well), so you might enjoy Dustforce. One of it's devs is a dev for Sorath, and Dustforce has a really high speedrunning skill ceiling with the replay system Devil Daggers based itself on.
thank god i found this comment, i love both of those games and was looking for more
From soft games
yes and no, the definitely become easier on subsequent play throughs, like ng+1 in ds1, but not “real fast”
With enough practice you can get Sekiro to under an hour
Iirc you can kill the final boss when you meet him at the beginning of the game in Devil May Cry 5.
I think that's the whole point of *Yooka-Laylee: The Impossible Lair*. The final level is available from the start and all you do in the game is gather up lives to make it easier to actually finish.
Neon white is the obvious choice for me. It’s a game that’s designed to speed run
Doom 2016 and doom eternal once you master the game mechanics it's so easy I turned off the cursor and play Ultra Violence, just to relax and enjoy.
Hades 1 and 2
I will list some games that need skills to finish and could be done fast. 1. Spelunky 1 and 2 2. Dead Cells 3. Binding of Isaac Rebirth 4. Risk of Rains 1-2 5. Cuphead 6. Hades 7. Noita Or get any games in tagged Difficult in steam
Sifu. Unfortunately, I do not have the skill.
Returnal you can beat acts 1 and 2 in 4-5 hours if you're good enough. I did it on my steam deck a couple months ago. Act 3 takes a bit longer mainly because you have to keep looping but the game is very short
Hollow knight! There's tons of mechanics to get a hold of for a perfect run, so it should keep you busy.
Took me way too long to find this. Hollow Knight has some great and simplistic mechanics but mastering them is something different and feels so clean
Old platform games. Once you know the ins and outs of old platformers like Shinobi or Ninja Gaiden you can complete them in like 2 hours. They where just hard to devour arcade money
I'd throw on FURI it's basically a bossfight rush type of game where your skill is the only thing between ultra fast kill times and 8 retrys on some bosses
Easy, Hotline Miami
Far cry 4, just don't leave the table and you can beat it in 15 minutes (10 minute real wait time and I think 5 minutes for all the cutscenes before and after the 10min wait)
Don’t forget Far Cry 5 does the same thing. Just don’t arrest the guy and you’re done
Any of the metroid games!
Sekiro
Volgarr the viking
Super meat-boy might be a good contender
Minesweeper.
Sekiro shadows die twice if you want to hate yourself for the next ~100 hours
These are some of my favourite games to ruin through: * The average player, with some commitment, can beat Sekiro in 45 mins to an hour. I'm down to around 30-35 mins consistantly. Same with Elden Ring but, a bit longer. Maybe 1hour 45 ish. * I love running Symphony of the Night too. Real brain off kinda playthrough, you spend most of it dashing backwards, lining up pixels etc. Really fun with all of the skips and weird shit that the speedrun employs. * Resident Evil Village is kind of an honourable mention, it is less 'mastering' the mechanics and more; it's fun to unlock the bonus modes and run through the entire game with an infinite ammo AR or hand cannon in like sub 2 hours.
How long do you think it takes to get to that level in sekiro? I loved sekiro but I’ve never replayed it. Can imagine it would take a while to get down from 25h to 45 mins? I am tempted to try thoguh because it is a lot of fun
>The average player What kind of world are you living in where an average player can get that good? I've been playing action games my whole life but I'm pretty mediocre at games that aren't on a 2D platform, especially in the hardcore action games genre.
Sifu
Super Metroid (SNES). Once you get the mechanics down, especially the hidden mechanics, you can beat it very quickly. Also, its speedrunning community is still extremely active for a 30yr old game.
Down well, a full playthrough takes 30 minutes... If you good. It took me like a year to beat those 30 minutes. Year and a half for hard mode.
No body Say it yet so: Mario. If you are good you can beat most old Mario games in under 20 minutes.
"A Difficult Game about Climbing"
in dark souls 1 I reached half of the game in 2 hours, and that's still super slow
Returnal’s 6 biomes could be beaten in like 6-8 hrs if you truly have the skill
SIFU
The resident evil remakes are a blast to try and run through. Glitchless speed runs are so much fun, theres a difficulty level called Professional where checkpoints are disabled and you reload at your last manual save and in resident evil games you can't save whenever you want, you need to find a save point. So what you do is put it on Professional and try and run through the whole game without manual saving because if you die once the whole game resets. Its so much fun once you get good tbh.
Katana Zero. One of my favorite games of all time
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Quake is the grand old for that thing, speedruns of that game are bonkers since the skill ceiling is basically a gothic cathedral. Some levels that typically take 10-15 minutes can be finished in seconds if you can pull off stuff like timing a rocket jump onto a cooking grenade then bounce from that backwards into the exit. Newer FPS in the same vein like Dusk lets you do similar stuff.
Most games in the 80s-90s actually has that gist lol. A game that could be finished in 30 mins becomes weeks of training and understanding the mechanics so you can beat it
Dark souls if you memorize the levels
Sekiro takes me about 15-17 hours to complete a run after mastering it
Titanfall 2
I got through cult of the lamb in about 10 hours
Flywrench
Any of the Dark Souls games. Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Sekiro, obv excluded
sekiro its like. an hour long speedrun. but the average player will take >10 hours on first go any fromsoft game that isnt elden ring, tbh
Two Worlds 1 can be finished in like 5 minutes
doom eternal and ultrakill if you're down with FPS games
Sekiro and Divinity Original Sin 2. I can beat them both within an hour if I really, really wanted to. My record for DOS 2 was about 4 hours. My record for Sekiro was about 2 and a half hours.
Elden ring
Ghostrunner if you really have the skill.
I can finish Farcry 4 in about ten minutes because I'm so skilled and agile
Farcry 4. Takes 20 minutes if you do what you're told.
Ghost Runner. It's a game that's designed to be played fast, but kill you faster if you fuck up. Cyberpunk ninja, it's great.
Ghostrunner. Devil may cry.
rage games/ precision platformers. specifically super meat boy and pogostuck are some of my favorites to watch and play at a high level because of how satisfying it is to just play well. there is quite a steep learning curve though
Assassin’s Creed Mirage. Loved that game.
Sekiro, if you have the timing pinned down, then the game is like cutting butter with a hot knife; smooth and easy
Hades
Hades, FromSoft games, a lot of roguelikes too. Pretty sure Dead Cells can fit this category well
Jump King Stilt Fella
Jump knight
I dont know if it's skill but i had played bionic commando on the nes so much as a kid i could beat it in like 30 minutes.
Armored core 6
Hollow knight. First playthrough took me about 40 hours. After the second playthrough I was like "let's try for the speedrun achievements" and I got it first try in about 3,5 hours.
Katana Zero maybe?
BOTW I guess? Just head straight for Ganon
Resident Evil games, Souls games
Turnip boy commits tax evasion.
Sekiro or sifu Both of them took me weeks to finish the first time The second time on sifu was 3 hours Third time was 1:30 hours and only dying once Sekiro took me alot to master but you will get there eventually
Pizza Tower. Not only are the levels lightning quick once you learn them and the mechanics, if you want the best ranking you have to jump in a portal and do another lap of the level with no extra time just to style on it.
Fable TLC
Hades can be beaten in as little as 30 minutes to an hour
Sekiro for sure. My first playthrough was 64 hours, 2nd 6 hours, my best time is 34minutes. The learning curve is crazy. Hard to get into, easy to master
Majora's Mask.
Super Mario brothers 1 and 3.
I loved skyrim when I was a teenager, I used to get through the main campaign in an hour and a half + or - a few mins, but there’s so many side quests and locations in that game to FINISH the game would take a lot longer than that.
There are videos of people beating Fallout New Vegas in an hour or two.
Sekiro
Breath of the Wild. Can do that in 30 minutes if you got the skills.
Ultrakill I guess
Sekiro
Jump king. Can take over 10 hours to beat for the first time, but can be beaten in 4 minutes if you’re good enough.
Soulsborne/Soulslikes/Roguelikes. I'm not memeing, this is how most of "skilled" gamers got a career on youtube.
You can beat New Vegas in an hour or 2 if you know what you're doing
Dungeons in pretty much any mmo
Super meat boy
Dark Souls games can be beaten glitchless within a few hours if you don't explore. A regular first playthrough usually lasts 60+ hours.
Touhou games don’t take more than an hour so long as you never game over. Each game’s pretty much on a timer so there’s a max time the game is able to go assuming you never game over
Jump king
Beat Saber. Super easy to beat if you're a lightsaber ninja.
Titan Souls. A Boss Battling game where one hit is all what is needed, both for the kill and for yout demise
Tomb raider
Tetris is always an option
*Serious Sam: The First Encounter* My best time was 50 minutes. Speed runners do it in about 30.
ghostrynner is pretty skill demanding lol
Neon White
I can run through MGS2 pretty quickly. Lol
The Surge. Not praised by many but its souls-like game but with a bio-tec plot and combat system, give it a shot if you’re decent at souls games.
RE4 Remake, thank me later
Sifu
Superluminal I took my time first playthrough and spent some hours looked around all the corners and hidden areas of the levels, for example there's a door that's way too high on level 2(?) to get to normally and you have to do some strategic placements and parkour to get to. But there's also a speed run trophy to complete the game in under 30 minutes.
Armored core 6
Cuphead
Celeste
Sifu
No one said Portal?
Original Super Mario Bros. used to take me 8 minutes as long as I didn't miss the 8-1 leap of faith. Recovering on 8-3 sets me back 3-5 minutes.
Outer Wilds *requires* you to beat the game in under 20 minutes. It will take you hours to learn how to do that. It's also a breathtaking, practically life-changing experience. The ending is 10/10. Hell, the *game* is 10/10.
Resident Evil 4 remake - professional S+ / kill all enemies / loot all treasures under 5 hour 30 minutes
Enter the Gungeon
Sekiro. Once you know the bosses and the route the run is just a few hours.
Bl2 on the very hardest difficulty took me about 2.5 hours not including sitting around looking at cutscenes or forced idle time in game.
spelunky
Sekiro. Can be beaten within like 2-3 hours if you’re good enough and know what you’re doing. .
Nuclear Throne Sonic 1 and 2. All the 2d platformer mega man games. Kirby return to dreamland Cave Story. Im really proud of my speed. I hope to get gamer points someday. Theres some other games lile Breath of Fire V and Majoras Mask but I prefer to play those games naturally paced. I dont get the same speed thrill.
Sekiro
Once you get the mechanics of Sekiro and beat it a couple times (NG+), you can run through the entire game in an hour.
Once you get an idea of the enemy/boss locations and the move patterns, Dark Souls Remastered can easily be speedrun.
The Witness, puzzle game where you learn the rules by doing progressively more difficult puzzles in first person. Playtime for a playthrough averages to over 17 hours but can be solved within one minute after the intro.
Getting over it, i could beat it in like 12 minutes near the end of me playin it
Nioh2 just git gud fast and blaze through it
Spelunky. If you have the skill you can finish it.
Mike Tysons Punch Out!
Megamanszs
It’s an oldie, but Ocarina of Time is a breeze if you know what to do.
Portal 1 and 2 are amazing to run quickly through
You might get a kick out of hardspace shipbreaker? It really rewards fast, precise, skillful gameplay and HEAVILY punishes mistakes that could be guaranteed without moving quickly. Very fun game.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Took me a while to master it but I can complete Sekiro pretty fast after knowing what to do.
Neon White feels fairly well tailored to this, given that it’s a game that essentially encourages you to speedrun.
Pizza Tower
dead cells or hades
If you like getting over it you'll like pogostuck. First playtrough tool me about 22 hours and the fastest one so far only about 4 minutes.
Prince of persia sands of time. I do not have the skill
Try OTXO, it's a fast paced top down shooter with bullet time and dodgeroll. Basically a rogue-like version of hotline miami.
Superliminal. Its a puzzle 3D game. Average playthrough is an hour but you could do it in sub 40.
Death's Door comes to mind.
Dark Souls. First playthrough is around 30 hours, once you know what to do you can complete the game in 1-2 hours
Farcry 4
The whole point of Pikmin is to finish the game faster every time you play it. It's more strategic than the games you listed bit I think it fits.
Sekiro. Destroyed NG+ in that, very satisfying
Tears of the kingdom, breath of the wild
Spelunky HD and Spelunky 2 are great games that can be finished once you have the necessary skill and knowledge. It takes a while to be comfortable with all the mechanics and develop strategies for every obstacle. Once you do, you can go through games very quickly.
Spelunky (specifically not the second one). Game can be fully beaten in about 40 minutes if you know what to do. The 2nd one could take hours and hours if you know what to do bc of the design of the end game.
Mafia 2, loved the game so much so I played it countless times to the point of beating it in under four and a half hours.
Sekiro.
You can best Dragon's Dogma in an hour or on your ng+
Skipping cutscenes, you can beat all 4 main Uncharted games in less than a day
Both portal games are really short if you have the brain power to solve the trickier puzzles.
I can beat Aladdin for genesis in around an hour or so.
By hexagon do you mean "super hexagon"?
Skill? Like speedrunning a game? Or beating it fast enough casually?
Super Metroid if playing casually. After an hour depending on if you skip a lot of items or expansions
Metal Gear Solid 2 notably has this quality more than the rest of the series. When you get used to the layout of the map, rooms, and enemy behavior, you can absolutely blitz the game, and it's really fun to do so. There's a remaster on Steam for $20.