how long is the game?

[oz Helix oz]

so the campaing is like xcom?

[kilen]

If you master it decently, 600-700 ingame days. In avrg, roughly 800-900 or something like that.
And In hours of play, it varies.
Depends how much time you spent customising and playing hardest difficulties or not… let say in normal, it’s 80-100h probably, if you go fast.
And if you like challenge and take your time, try to experiment multiple builds for the GKs, etc etc… let say 120-150h or so to finish one full campaign.

I didn’t play xcom games, so I can’t compare directly there, but based on my xp and comments I saw, at least 120h in ruthless or legendary per campaign completed seems correct.
And 80-100 in normal, something like that.

[Mr. Blonde]

For me, it took me 73 hours and, that's considering I had to restart the game once because I lost

[Wszou]

I just did Merciles campaign in 336 days in like 15 hours? Completly rushed for achievement. It's doable but I do not advise as such endavour killed the joy for me.

[Alex_x86]

I have 2 playthroughs at 120 hours. So I guess it is around 60 hours each.

Please clarify what do you mean "campaign like xcom". First of all there are few of those. Second, what are you looking for?

In this campaign you travel in the spaceship, every so often 3 missions spawn with different bonuses, if you chose your mission you would have to travel there (takes time), unless you are very lucky and have fully upgraded warp drive you would not be able to reach all missions. There are also enemies navigating the map, however encounter with them is more of textual quest stuff. Later in the game map expands.

Once you arrive at the mission place you can start a mission. Squad size is limited to 4 knights. The missions kinda like xcom, however the game have a mechanic that is rewarding aggressive playthrough and overwatch turtling simply doesn't make too much sense.

There are story missions and there are boss battles: they are few but very fun. Bosses are not simply buffed versions of regular enemies (like Rulers from some DLC in XCOM 2) but a totally different beasts with their own things.

Damage to you and by you is guaranteed with the chance to crit (do additional damage or cause negative status)

IMHO basically out of all xcom-likes it is stands out as the least similar one.

PS: as someone who has over way too many hours in xcom then I probably should I really liked the game.

[gokkel]

I have 148 hours and completed the campaign twice, plus a few starts that I didn't complete. One of the playthroughs was while streaming so I played slower. I would say you can complete one playthrough from start to end in about 45-60 hours, but it will vary heavily by playstyle. If you tend to think a lot it will be longer.

[EmperorSultan]

It took me 18 hours to finish the game with alot of the side content.

[Tux]

Much longer than it should be. You can't make the combat much faster than it is baseline, so even if you have polished strategy and you know you are going to breeze through the mission, until the enemies change eventually and bring some new challenge (or not), it will still take you ages to do it. That makes it feel like a tedious chore. Also the game save system is just incompetent BS, plain and simple. I accidentally loaded 24 hours old manual save and my SINGULAR autosave slot immediatelly overwritten after loading ... for reasons. So with one misclick I lost all my progress. Given how mind numbingly slow the combat is, I uninstalled the game, because I realised I simply refuse to go through the missions again and waste another hours upon hours to the same monotonous missions until I reach where I was before.

[Phart]

Steam says I've played 99 hours and haven't finished the campaign yet. Granted, I play slow, maxed out the research tree etc. Based on comments from here, I'm about to hit the final mission soon.

[Ghost from warp]

73 hours for two full playthroughs on highest difficulty, so it depends very much on your skills.

[Tragic]

Originally posted by EmperorSultan:

It took me 18 hours to finish the game with alot of the side content.

I do not believe you.,

[Vagabundo]

i think i spend around 40 hours on 1 campaign