Too short?

[Shazam]

Anyone shocked at the shortness of this game? Apparently it can be completed in only 4 hours for non speedrunners. A bit disappointing to be honest, especially with all the extra mechanics in the game.

[s0_RoNerY]

Four hours is decent for me. Plus it helps me get right back to my backlogs I haven’t finished yet. I wouldn’t mind replaying this game.

[CaptainNoobles]

Depends.

I’m 6.5 hours in and only just reached the tunnels. How much more of the game is left after that, I do not know.

I think the limited time from the generator has a hand in forcing people to speed up and get through the game quicker

[SWORDLION]

I'm playing on Hard and I'm not even close to finishing the game at 5.5 hours and it wildly differs for everyone due to the game's nature. I'm not shocked at the length but I'm shocked at how people over react to somebody finishing the game in 4 hours.

Everybody buying the game knew that they are aiming towards more compact length because their main goal is to create something replayable. If it was much much longer, you'd not even wanna replay the game. But right now, it has the perfect length for it and it has a great amount of modding support coming down it's way.

Also we are getting 2 new game modes.

[Blackburn]

I am slow runner. I finished the game in 12hrs

[Numennes]

I enjoyed exploring a lot in my first playthrough and recently finished my second play on hard. Thinking about going again to get some achievements.

Game is pretty replayable, second time I got different tools first, discovered more ways to go through, got different things done, it was fun! And since it is somewhat randomized, it adds to it too

Right now I have over 20 hours in the game. It is short, but packed full of gameplay and cool mechanics I would say.

[Rilgar55]

Game is about 6 or 8 hours long first time when you dont know what to do and play slow. Personally , when it comes to horror, i rather have a short game, if it extends too long the fear dissapears and is more annoying than anything else by the end (why i never finished alien isolation despite it being a great game, by the 10 hours mark i was more annoyed by the alien than scared).

[freddypad]

Of course, it depends on how exactly the game is played. You can just run everywhere, run from the monster, risk a lot etc. Then the game will probably not be that long. But you can also totally enjoy the atmosphere, take your time, be careful, sneak, be afraid. :P It's how I like to play the Amnesia games. Much longer playtime then.

[Fredsinator]

Originally posted by Blackburn:

I am slow runner. I finished the game in 12hrs

how? what were you doing? there's not even close to 12 hours of gameplay. Even Rebirth or The Dark Descent aren't even close to 12 hours long

[Blackburn]

Originally posted by Fredsinator:

Originally posted by Blackburn:

I am slow runner. I finished the game in 12hrs

how? what were you doing? there's not even close to 12 hours of gameplay. Even Rebirth or The Dark Descent aren't even close to 12 hours long

I finished Rebirth in 18hr
this how I play video games, slow and immesed

[WuffWabbit]

Originally posted by Fredsinator:

Originally posted by Blackburn:

I am slow runner. I finished the game in 12hrs

how? what were you doing? there's not even close to 12 hours of gameplay. Even Rebirth or The Dark Descent aren't even close to 12 hours long

I finished at 8.4 hours, and tried to collect every dog tag / note / item. I backtracked to other sections to use new tools for items, didn't use a guide, and spent a lot of time hiding and being scared.

[Tapir]

11 hours here, but I've played around a lot, examined the environments, tried around things.
I usually take about 1.6x-2x as much time to finish a game like this, than what they advertise. I don't remember how long Rebirth took, but if you finished Rebirth under 10 hours, this is going to be very short for you.

[KleskBY]

Any game is short if you abuse cheats. There is no way you can beat the game in 4 hours.

UPD: None of the Amnesia games are designed for playing on Easy or Normal. It is not some form of shooter that requires reaction or skills. Easy is for people with disabilities and kids, Normal is for console gamer and skippers, Hard is the standard difficulty in which the developers have used all the mechanics and scripts that they wanted.

With unlimited fuel, ammo, noise level game is sure too short. Just like any other game where you can just bhop thru. This is a fundamentally new game with new mechanics about confrontation with the beast, adapting, learning timings and his behavior. If you decided to remove this important part of the game, that is your problem. I saw a youtuber running around, jumping, using flashlight with fully loaded gun and demon just ignores him. That is just bs

[morko]

It's 4 hours long because it has zero padding. I'll take that over 4 extra hours of boring fluff.

[Magos Flibble]

I was surprised how abruptly it ended but... It was all about the Bunker after all. Anything else would feel tacked on. It's refreshing tbh.

I'll admit though I was expecting more connections to the previous games. At most we got the return of the crazy alien bathwater and the funky rocks.

[Kain]

I didn't play rebirth so I didn't get the connection.

Also, the only way I can see someone finishing this game in 4 hours in a first playthrough is on easy... like a coward.