How Many Gameplay Hours?

[Actalo]

My last completionist play-through took 130'ish hours with PL DLC and Missing Persons mod (adds 200 small gigs out of the game's "hidden gems" so just extra reading, really). I know the game pretty well so I don't spend a lot of time wandering around blindly - thus, the hours are 85% gameplay, 15% messing around.

This is now the longest non-sandbox game I've ever played - how about you guys?

*Edit: I think when people think gameplay hours they're looking at Steam gameplay hours - this is wrong. You should look at your last savegame, It will tell you how many hours your play-through was.

[Futt Buckerson]

I'm at like 238 hours on multiple restarts with tons of mods and I've never completed the game. I don't know how people are talking about multiple playthroughs to experience the different endings. I'm gonna tailor an ending, complete it and I'm done with this game

[Actalo]

RDR2 for me is about 100-120hrs depending on how much time I spend hunting and fishing for fun.

Witcher 3 (DLCs) comparable or perhaps more. That's fair.

BG3 is around 100-110hrs for me. But on my last completionist run I finished it in 90 hours.

Skyrim, I dunno. It's been nearly 10 years since I played it but I don't believe it's anywhere near 130 hours.

Never played AC games and I hear most of its hours are just repetitive bloat but I suppose that's still hours played.

[Slim Brady]

400 hours. Need a smoke!

[Skelevra]

335.
And can't 'wait to double it for the sequel.
Best game I ever played

[𝔓𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔶]

I have 591 hours and have been away from the game for a year , but part of the time was removing and installing mods due to updates, without mods it wouldn't have come back

[Bjørn]

I see I have 378 hrs total on Steam, but I'm at about 350 hrs in my current game, which is my first proper playthrough, recently started now after 2.1. (I've started the game several times since release, just doing the initial missions, but never got quite into it, and had bad hardware so spent a lot of time with the benchmark and adjusting settings)

Even after so many hours, in both areas (original and Dogtown) I still have over half of the fixer gigs left, probably over half of the side jobs, just as many NCPD jobs plus choosing an ending to finally finish the game one day.

No idea how you guys can do all that in around 100 hours, but my playstyle is pretty slow. I mostly walk, and not run / sprint, I drive instead of fast travel, and I like to explore everywhere, and I read everything I come across in the game, and sometimes just stop to enjoy the view and listen to conversations and such, or watch silly walks (and follow sexy ladies with nice butts sometimes ). Very immersive game.

I've actually recently started a new game from scratch, since I felt I did many mistakes as a total noob the first time around, but haven't decided if I'll keep playing the new one or continue the old.

[Graf Erik]

My first post-2.0 playtrough was about 230h, with PL. About 100 more then my first playthrough at launch.

In total I'm sitting at about 600 hours, according to steam (but its more then that, I often start the game without steam and launcher, saves 20 seconds on startup).
Thats 3,5 playthrougs.

It definetly more then I have in TW3, where I have 500h in 4 playthroughs.

[skpManiac]

I got to about 100 hours on the initial release version, then it crashed my save so i did not play it for almost 2 years, jump forward to v2.1 being released, and the fact I had treated myself to a 4090 GPU, I started again at the beginning, the game is beautiful maxed out, but last night I hit another issue with a mission that I cannot start ( I have posted in here about it) :( For now I will leave it and wait til I've finished Phantom Liberty which is a great add-on :)

[CryteX]

277 hours got a rtx 4070, new playthrough with ray tracing now. Amazing game

[Cr0m]

i don't understand how someone completes not just the base game but also the DLC in just over 100 hours. for me it was 312. i didn't play until after 2.0 update. i don't feel like i'm playing particularly slowly or anything. i did all the fixer jobs and PD assaults etc and spent what never felt to me like any excessive amount of time "smelling the roses", admiring scenery, etc, but did stop to explore or look around once in a while.

i played on the hardest mode, and did have a few rough spots with some deaths/reloads to get through, but again that didn't seem excessive either.

are you people just sprinting through these games or what? i don't get why you'd rush through a game like this.

[USM-Valor]

My play through took 170ish hours to complete. Did nearly everything, but didn't reload and get every ending and didn't bother with a few random achievement challenges. I have played games which took longer for me to complete, but not many.

I'd say maybe all but 2? hours of that is straight gameplay. I didn't do a lot of modding and no photo stuff at all.

[USM-Valor]

Originally posted by Cr0m:

i don't understand how someone completes not just the base game but also the DLC in just over 100 hours. for me it was 312. i didn't play until after 2.0 update. i don't feel like i'm playing particularly slowly or anything. i did all the fixer jobs and PD assaults etc and spent what never felt to me like any excessive amount of time "smelling the roses", admiring scenery, etc, but did stop to explore or look around once in a while.

i played on the hardest mode, and did have a few rough spots with some deaths/reloads to get through, but again that didn't seem excessive either.

are you people just sprinting through these games or what? i don't get why you'd rush through a game like this.

312 hours is pretty insane for a single play through. I did basically everything you did and definitely wasn't rushing. Also played on Very Hard. That said, this isn't a competition. As long as you enjoyed your time it was well spent. Can only play through a game the first time once, may as well enjoy it.

[Cr0m]

well i guess i should add that i did reload and experience all of the endings. not ALL of them, but the main options.
i don't get how it's 'insane', there probably were lots of cases where i myself was kind of rushing from one thing to the next, particularly the PD stuff. I just ran from one to the other as quick as i could. and in general i fast traveled quite a bit. i really have no idea how people are doing it over twice as fast unless they are speedrunning the entire time and that seems very counter to a game genre that's largely based on atmosphere and vibe, to me.

[GulfcoastKilla1]

Out of the 240 hours, most of it has been spent on my 2nd playthrough with 2.0. I finished 1.0 vanilla with a handful of mods but when I originally played it but wasn't as invested in my character and story. Maxed out at 60 on the current, 2nd, playthrough and still have 2/3 of the PL story along with the Kerry storyline and main ending.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by USM-Valor:

Originally posted by Cr0m:

i don't understand how someone completes not just the base game but also the DLC in just over 100 hours. for me it was 312. i didn't play until after 2.0 update. i don't feel like i'm playing particularly slowly or anything. i did all the fixer jobs and PD assaults etc and spent what never felt to me like any excessive amount of time "smelling the roses", admiring scenery, etc, but did stop to explore or look around once in a while.

i played on the hardest mode, and did have a few rough spots with some deaths/reloads to get through, but again that didn't seem excessive either.

are you people just sprinting through these games or what? i don't get why you'd rush through a game like this.

312 hours is pretty insane for a single play through. I did basically everything you did and definitely wasn't rushing. Also played on Very Hard. That said, this isn't a competition. As long as you enjoyed your time it was well spent. Can only play through a game the first time once, may as well enjoy it.

Like most RPGs, you have a conscious decision to either go point-to-point following objective markers OR meander about, taking things in as they come, only chasing an objective marker when it feels appropriate or when ready to move on.

You can also choose not to drive anywhere unless required by a mission. The city isn't that big, actually. Walking places would likely add a lot of time but also let you be that much more immersed.

My current run is like 20 hours in and I've only completed the Pickup. I've been walking most places, enjoying the sights, sounds, and smell of urine that pervades Night City. I'm on track for a 200+ hour run.

My longest single player run in anything was a heavily modded Skyrim that took me about 550 hours. I used just about every major content mod available and filled the Legacy of the Dragonborn museum--so it was a very complete run.