How long is one run?

[Tyze]

Approximately?

[Exvhius]

Unhelpful but short answer: it depends on stage and modifiers, starting at around 10 minutes.

Full answer: Default is 13 minutes on the timer for the first stage and 20 for the others, the clock speed modifier in malice cuts that in half. This ignores however long you spend in the levelup or perk select menus, which I'd guess averages out to 4-5 minutes.

Taking the "Timed Challenge" option at the end of main time spawns enemies until another 13/20 minutes, but reaching 0:00 on the main clock counts as a completed run. Taking one of the two endless modifiers (unsurprisingly) throws all that out the window.


Note that you can manually end a run at any point after 0:00 (including during the overtime selection) and have it count as completed.

[Commander Tom]

12 mins to 3 hours

[Dubhe Giliandor]

To expand on Commander Tom´s Answer, after around 15-25 mins you should have cleared a stage, after which you most often go into an infinite mode, where you can go up to multiple hours.