theoretical length of the story, based on the roadmap

[enzmagus2025]

i don't think i've seen it stated anywhere, if it has i apologise.

as people know due to the delay in releasing chapter 4, pm changed the roadmap and all the content within it. showing june as the date for chapter 4, july as the date of chapter 4.5/RR2, october for chapter 5, and november for 5.5/RR3.

if we are to assume that this is the pattern going forward: a chapter one month, then refraction railway and the chapters event the month after, and then the next chapter 3 months after. we would have a consistent release schedule every year of february, june, and october being each characters chapter, alongside march, july, and november being that chapters .5 event and refraction railway.

going by that logic we can assume that if each sinner gets 1 chapter each then chapter 12 would release in february 2026. in the same vein if each sinner got 2 chapters chapter 24 would be february 2030, and 3 each would be chapter 36 on february 2034.

at the minimum as long as pm intends to go for a chapter per character we would have 3 years worth of content, ignoring the possibility of dante, vergilius, or charon getting chapters of their own.

while the idea of 36 chapters is somewhat absurd, i believe there is the theory of the chapters being based on dante's inferno, and while i haven't read it, i believe the assumption is that since the book itself is split into three parts, and the chapter select is named after the first part, then pm's plan might be to have two more "parts" after the first.

(on the same note, if yi sangs chapter is supposed to be 1/3 the length of ruina word count wise, and each chapter after were to follow suit, then pm would essentially have to write ruina 11 times over lol (33 divided by 3))

[Fluffden]

I hope Hana/Office simulator will come before that.

[DragonCorpVI]

Well also we have to remember Limbus story is being based on Dantes Inferno, with the chapters being called "Cantos" and the trip being down to the "Inferno" and Dante, well, being named Dante and Vergilius being there as Dantes guide.

Searching about how many Cantos there are I get different answers like 33 (Or 34), 36 or 100 Cantos in total, but as to how many Cantos PM are actually going to do, I dunno, but it is safe to assume each Sinner will get their respective chapter tied to them.

[Destrower37]

I'm thinking of 1 chapter per character
and a few chapters dealing with sinners as a whole akin reverb ensemble raiding ruina

but i don't know
let's remember this is gasha game , so the story might be as long as the game is interesting
but i would also hate if the story draaaaaaaaags ooooooooooooon is LCB is very successful

[enzmagus2025]

Originally posted by Destrower37:

I'm thinking of 1 chapter per character
and a few chapters dealing with sinners as a whole akin reverb ensemble raiding ruina

but i don't know
let's remember this is gasha game , so the story might be as long as the game is interesting
but i would also hate if the story draaaaaaaaags ooooooooooooon is LCB is very successful

based on the fact that some characters related to the sinners are not expanded on much in their respective chapters (e.g hermann, sonya, and demian) it wouldn't surprise me if each sinner got a second chapter each dedicated to their respective "antagonist", or they could do a ensemble and have'em together. if the story is bad or mediocre the amount of story would very easily begin to drag, but if its good, having such a longform story would be kinda incredible imo

[DAVOS CENSORSHIP 2030 FTW!!!]

Let's see what they do with Hermann, Jia Huan and Gubo First and if those Chapters further expand the World Building or not.

[Demonking]

To be honest Gotcha are usually live service games and tend to get better with age as more permanent features/improvements get added. If I had to guess there might be 13 chapters, with dante's being the last. After that I assume we'll hit a spinning wheel cycle where the game gets less support from PM (possibly won't be that much different from now if they expand their team) and sort of just gets side events and new story lines thrown in until it either reaches a nice end or it starts draining money.

I could also see them running something where chapters after the 'end' of this story start running parallel with events happening in other games. Say if they do a 3d fighter, the team in charge of this one might decide to do a chapter that mirrors it and has you containing distortions/anomalies you only fight in the 3D fighting game. It'd be a great way to keep the less wealthy sides of their fan base happy, since this game will remain F2P while future projects will cost money up front.

[SmallGespenst]

It's worth remembering that PM have stated that they went with a live service model because it allows them to continually release lore and other world building, specifically referencing LoR during development, and wanting to continue that steady release, so it'd be reasonable to expect content to keep flowing as long as it keeps making money

[KopiCPeng]

Imo, each sinner would be getting at least 2 cantos for their story.