How long is the game?

[tukkek]

Can you play it from start to finish in a single session?

[saintdenis]

A single run takes between 1 and 2 hours, depending on difficulty and playstyle.
The game has 7 different scenarios, each divided in up to 10 difficulty levels.

[graphitepaddle]

Been averaging 4.5 hours, excluding playing the tutorial. Fastest time with a win, was 3 hours.

But I tend to take my sweet little old time, making sure that nothing was left on the table at the end of turn.

[Finite Monkeys]

Similar times to graphitepaddle for me, though I can take a lot longer if I get side-tracked by FB, Twitter, email, YouTube, Steam forums etc..

[vaxquis]

1-4 hours, I'd say, depending on the amount of experience you have, the exact conditions RNGsus provides and the amount of micro you need to do.

You can finish all scenarios before T65 ends, FWIW, usually somewhere between T60-65, even on the highest difficulty, if you're good enough - that's about 2-3 hours. Prepare to get to T80+ and spend those 3-4 hours if you're just learning. You can rush weekly challenges in 1 hour on the easiest settings if you know how to play :P

[Rooks]

It takes me a few hours, usually spread between two days, to complete a game at the highest difficulty.

This is like an order of magnitude shorter than other sim games, such as Civilization or Surviving Mars. Game length of Terraformers is closer to my runs of Slay the Spire or Hades.

[Citadel]

It takes me around 2 hours to finish a game, even at the highest difficulty. Games consistently end between 50-60 no matter the difficulty or scenario.

[CryonicSuspension]

8 hours in the beginning down to 5 hours. I'm constantly min-maxing.

That's just 1 mission out of 10 in a campaign. There's 7 campaigns.

[tukkek]

Thanks for the answers. Seems like 1-2 is the floor and 5 is the ceiling. Sounds perfect to me!

[doodlepigs]

the game is so short? :(

[CryonicSuspension]

It took me 127 hours to finish one campaign. There's like... 6 other campaigns to do.

[andmann]

i take between 30 minutes(easy) and 2 hours(utopian+(11) difficulty) to do a challenge it really depends on your strategy. If you try to stay positive in support you will play significantly longer than staying on target and racing against the support. I tend to race.

[zorb25]

Originally posted by doodlepigs:

the game is so short? :(

The game is a roguelike strategy. The lenght presented is the lenght of a single scenario from start to finish. There is significant number of campaigns each of which puts emphasis on different aspect of the game, thus presenting a different challenge.

Campaigns are from my memory( play the game, focus on mining, focus on seeding life, focus on terraforming, focus on building space project, focus on science and focus on expansion. Each camapign has missions of increasing difficulty, so there is a lot of play, but at its heart it is roguelike first and foremost.