The best short RPGs condense epic-feeling adventures into manageable experiences that you can play through in a weekend, but will stick with you for a lifetime.
Whether you actually bash through them in such a short timeframe is up to you, but I've kept my recommendations of the snappiest RPGs to games that should take no more than 20 hours for their main stories, and in many cases, much less. It's been tough, as I've deliberately eschewed many of the best RPGs with blockbuster budgets that came close to that limit, but would feel like I was just making excuses to include. I really want to recommend short RPGs you can count on, so I've ironically spent a lot of time trying to put together a compelling list you can be confident in.
