How much shorter than Witcher 3 it is?

[Qorachius]

Getting ready to pick it up and wish to set my expectations correctly. With all DLCs, is it at least 1/4 of W3 with all DLCs?

[Verios44]

I have no idea how long Wotcher 3 takws, but the prologue alone here can take 3,4 hours alone if you do not much more than the main content. It can take me 100+ hours for a full playthrough including side content. Excluding side activities, maybe 20. But that removes some of the best content in the game, dont recommend.

[TH3R4BB!T]

Witcher takes much longer, it has more content, more quests. Cyberpunk you can finish (if you skip the gigs and ncpd scanners) around 50 hours (if you skip the sometimes long and boring dialogues, else you can add 10 to 20 hours more), more if you go on Very Hard. Witcher it took me 300+ maybe even more, but there was a lot to explore

[Crimsomrider]

The playtime drastically varies depending on what interests the player in Cyberpunk.

Personally can't say it is shorter at all as my 100% playthroughs last longer than Witcher 3 100% playthroughs ever do, so more than 130 hours because the things one does in Cyberpunk is drastically much different than Witcher 3.

This playtime includes the main story, side missions, side activities and naturally just exploring the incredibly detailed Night City and finding its unmarked events and scattered lore.

So if you end up enjoying it to the point you really want to see everything it has to offer then you're looking at a huge amount of playtime that is on par with the Witcher 3. If not then you're still looking at somewhere around 40+ hours, which naturally varies on playstyle.

[Athena]

If you want to know how much time to put into a game. Don't ask a few random people on the internet their opinions on how they play the game. Try to look at numbers from a larger pool of players.

Cyberpunk 2077:
https://completionist.me/steam/app/1091500

Witcher 3:
https://completionist.me/steam/app/292030

By no means a perfect metric. But far less biased than the 15 people who will answer here.

[Qorachius]

Originally posted by Athena:

If you want to know how much time to put into a game. Don't ask a few random people on the internet their opinions on how they play the game. Try to look at numbers from a larger pool of players.

Cyberpunk 2077:
https://completionist.me/steam/app/1091500

Witcher 3:
https://completionist.me/steam/app/292030

By no means a perfect metric. But far less biased than the 15 people who will answer here.

It is difficult to believe those numbers because all gaming sites were writing that Cyberpunk is shorter. Thanks to what it can be longer, it has more secondary quests with a storyline or more GTA type activities?

[Crimsomrider]

Originally posted by Jester:

Thanks to what it can be longer, it has more secondary quests with a storyline or more GTA type activities?

The open-world is structured in the same way as Witcher 3's is. Meaning you will find plenty of side quests and events, along with a huge amount of hidden unique loot and unique locations that give lore and life to the world.

Just like the Witcher 3's open world. Neither Witcher 3 nor Cyberpunk are a sandbox experience, but they're a fantastic open-world experience.

[Death Approaches]

Again, if you ask 15 or 150 or 150,000, you're still averaging... some do every side quest, some literally walk the countryside corner-to-corner and leave Roach for when they need to move quickly, some max out Geralt before really starting to play, even. That's not the norm, of course. But, some do. And those types are more likely to run to other sites and post, or allow them to track their stats, cause they're PROUD loser gaming addicts wasting our lives!

I mean their, their lives.

It makes no difference, cept to capitalism. 60-80 hours for open adventure games with 1 DLC of another 10-20 hours. That's the CDPR development norm, that's what they shoot for, based on marketing, past sales, whatever else their metrics are. money money money money.

Because how long you play is pointless, from their perspective - how many pay tier 1 preorder, tier 2 full western countries retail, and tier 3 on-sale .us/.uk/.eu pricing for the game, that is all that matters. If you ever want to see another Witcher or Cyberpunk, at least!

I have 1200 hours in both, but W3 is years older, so I guess that means I'm more addicted to Cy77 than the world of Geralt? But to be fair I was a tabletop Cyberpunk & Shadowrun player, with a core group of friends who half are no longer alive, so it's both new and nostalgic for me. It's not that I'm not addicted to both, I'm just *more* addicted to this one. Currently.

[Graf Erik]

For me CP is definetly much longer then TW3.

I have 4 playthroughs with TW3(and both dlcs) and a total of 500 hours.

I'm currently in the middle of my 3rd playthrough in CP with 400 hours.

I think the reason why some people migth think CP is shorter, is the way the main story is structured. The mandatory core part of the main quest is pretty short, and it ends the game. But there is plenty of optional content that unlocks different endings. So when you just follow the main quest the game ends after 20 hours (and you missed 80% of the content)

[Simple Man]

Originally posted by Athena:

If you want to know how much time to put into a game. Don't ask a few random people on the internet their opinions on how they play the game. Try to look at numbers from a larger pool of players.

Cyberpunk 2077:
https://completionist.me/steam/app/1091500

Witcher 3:
https://completionist.me/steam/app/292030

By no means a perfect metric. But far less biased than the 15 people who will answer here.

Not sure about being less biased. That site says cyberpunk has 444 hours on average playtime for a completionist run, which is nothing short of a joke.

Originally posted by Jester:

It is difficult to believe those numbers because all gaming sites were writing that Cyberpunk is shorter.

Cyberpunk is considerably shorter than TW3. TW3 Base game is longer (you can find yourself doing cyberpunk final "embers" mission within 8 or 10 hours if you're only doing main story), and for expansions not only are there two, but Blood and Wine is massive in terms of landmass and content, Phantom Liberty on the other hand is a little corner of the map in pacifica.

edit: its shorter than TW2 as well, if you ever played that.

[Grandmother CFO]

I have almost 350 hours, now see if it's a short game or a small one.
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[Valerie Kyrie]

I have played 250 hours so far, and I have not gotten past Act 1. But I am OCD, and I’ve been diagnosed with Alt-a-holism.

[Chaosolous]

It depends how you play.

My 2.0 save file has like 90 hours.

I'm a very methodical and leisurely player though.

If you're just gonna cruise through the main stuff and a handful of side missions, maybe around 30 or 50 hours.

[FREEZED]

you can rush main story trough pretty fast but if you clear all content and play all ending options trough it might take about 200 hours to play about everything game has

[DaylightDemon]

it depends. the story is structered in a way that you can play through it very fast if you only do the bare necessities. but theres lots of optional side stories worth playing and also paths of technically the main story that you can play but dont have to. its safe to say however, that the main story isolated is still shorter than the main story of witcher 3. but, if you play cyberpunk for the main quests, you will lose out on what makes this game good imo. what makes this game good is the side stuff. the stuff that makes you use your build. the stuff that helps you get money so you can be an absolute monster decked out in chrome. the gigs where you can pretty much choose how to go about em. many ppl play only the main quests and let me tell you they have seen nothing of what this game has to offer.

[Zoid13]

my game time
TW3 98 hours = 1 play through. full map clear got all gwent cards :P
2077 437 hours = 3 play through (and i don't like fps games)

so on average 2077 took me longer per play through and i played it more overall!
imo 2077 the main story line is shorter (by a small margin if you now also take into account phantom liberty as part of the story line its pretty similar in length but game is longer overall if you do everything (side gigs).

tw3 if you do only the main story 50 ish hours + 50 to clear the map and gwent collecting.
2077 if you do only the base game main story 30ish hours + 20 for phantom liberty's story which sits inside and extends the main story + 100 to clear the map.

i love'ed tw3 but man did the combat get boring fast.