Is it normal that one ingame months takes so many hours ?

[Buurt]

I don't know if I am slow or something, but this games HLTB is around 60 - 70 hours and it takes me like 20+ hours to play through one month, that feels like I am gonna be finished with this games story before I even hit winter.... do you speed up game time or something to have quicker days ? because right now it feels like I am never even gonna touch year 2 with how "slow" the days feel somehow

[SimuLord]

I find that a month runs, on average, 21 hours (45 minutes, or 0.75 hours per day x 28 days, speed 0.6, plus "untimed" sections like paused menus and dialogue trees.)

Even when I'm challenge-running and rushing through the main quest, the game is sufficiently long as to generally require 80-100 hours. If I played on 1.0 speed, it'd be closer to that 60-70 range, but the game's way too frantic for my taste even at 0.7, never mind 1.0!

[Sketch Elder]

I doubt that you will reach the end of the game in just 2 or 3 game months. The first Winter is only the third month, after all, and year 2 starts at the beginning of the fourth.

[Rymack]

why the rush to end the game ? SAD

[yoru]

There's only 4 months a year so I think it's normal LOL

[JustaGamer]

I'm in middle of Summer in of year 2 (5th month) and I think I'm wrapping up act 2 of the story. And that's with me pretty much finish every story mission the day they came out. This game is a lot longer than you think.

I don't feel the day is that long, I'm using the default setting. But at the same time I don't use stamina item either, I do what I want to do each day and then go to bed, sometime early sometime late. I don't make a point of staying up to 12am or 3am every day.

[BDTA]

On the default settings each hour in game is 1 minute real life. On average when I play it takes me 10~15 minutes to complete a day without any story events happening or staying out late (past midnight). That's because I go and grab every commission I can, check the map for side-quests/extra story beats, head back to my workshop, take care of everything I need to there, then head out to gather materials, and finally take everything to the people who needs them same day (if my machines finish everything in time).

HLTB doesn't usually take into account side stuff and is usually just focused on how long to do the main story. In Sandrock it's possible to check for main story stuff and if nothing is happening just sleep until the next day or do some lite gathering then sleep.

As it stands it'd be impossible to beat the game before or by the first winter. There are story beats that have you make something, install it and then wait a day or a few days before the next story bit happens. If you are playing the game at optimal efficiency in regards to finishing the story the day a task comes up and focusing on nothing else I could see the game taking much less time. But if you just... play the game other than just gunning the story it'll take longer. I've so far completed every story beat of the game the day it came up, with the exception of once or twice when I needed things to finish building making me wait a day or two, and I'm just about in month 2 of year 2.

There is a lot to do in this game and if you're just gunning the story you'll miss out a decent amount of stuff. If you're taking 20+ hours for a single month then you're either playing with longer days or you're doing stuff other than the main story. I don't think you have anything to worry about in terms of "beating it too fast."

[Davyboy]

Fall year 1 and I just finished building the water tower. Playing on 1 speed and not even trying to rush. I've skipped some "Main Quests" trying to slow it down, but after a day or two a new main quest pops up.
My next play through I'm not going to do any of the main quests as I feel rushed. Especially in the fighting area's. I still just have the stone daggers. I didn't know this game would force me to fight so much.
Edit: Found out that I can just wait a few days and that main quest will also be skipped. Now I'm missing out on story. Not sure if this is a bug, because it's main story events, but I googled and seems I'm not the only one.
Seems like most of the main story can be skipped and doesn't affect anything. The area's will open up eventually. No benefits and doesn't seem like Yan will get the points so the rush was on my. I can just skip all of the story.