How long is the game?

[Robot]

Just wondering how long it would take to complete on average.

**EDIT**
I know that its amazing, I will be buying it either way but just wanted to know how long so I can plan out when to play it haha, got quite a busy schedule.

[foreground noise]

4 - 6 Hours is the average

[SilentCaay]

<6 is you're a putz who runs through the whole thing, doesn't read a word of the text, skips all the extra challenges and just wants to get it over with ASAP. If you do that, though, just stop gaming, lol.

If you're a real gamer, you know how to soak in a game, you read the text and do the challenges then I can't say yet. I'm at about 8 hours and haven't finished my first run yet. The final boss has been brought up in the story but I have at least one more boss before that, I feel.

[ninnyjams]

In my first playthrough, I went to each little side thing you can observe and read everything there is to read, and did not rush. It took me 5.1 hours.

That's all with the caveat that I did not use every skill in every slot, meaning there were a few paragraphs I did miss, that I took care of about 30 minutes into Recursion mode, which is basically New Game+. There are still levels to gain and tests to do that you can only unlock at higher levels, which means New Game+ is required for 100%. I just beat it all and I'm at 10 hours.

So I will tell people it's about a 5-hour game, but I'm getting more than double that in playthrough that I couldn't help but start right after I finished the first.

[ninnyjams]

Originally posted by SilentCaay:

<6 is you're a putz who runs through the whole thing, doesn't read a word of the text, skips all the extra challenges and just wants to get it over with ASAP. If you do that, though, just stop gaming, lol.

If you're a real gamer, you know how to soak in a game, you read the text and do the challenges then I can't say yet. I'm at about 8 hours and haven't finished my first run yet. The final boss has been brought up in the story but I have at least one more boss before that, I feel.

This is just not true. Again, I did everything except the one thing I said, and it took me 5.1 hours. People need to quit lying about this. It's not a negative that it's a short game. It's just a short game that happens to be absolutely incredible. You can read EVERYTHING there is to read and walk on EVERY PIECE OF TILE IN THE GAME and do it in five hours.

Note if you're taking longer, you're just going at a slower pace. That doesn't mean that you're seeing more than someone who did it in five, you're just taking longer at your battles, maybe spending more time in Backdoor, etc etc.

[LifeCarrier]

Originally posted by SilentCaay:

<6 is you're a putz who runs through the whole thing, doesn't read a word of the text, skips all the extra challenges and just wants to get it over with ASAP. If you do that, though, just stop gaming, lol.

If you're a real gamer, you know how to soak in a game, you read the text and do the challenges then I can't say yet. I'm at about 8 hours and haven't finished my first run yet. The final boss has been brought up in the story but I have at least one more boss before that, I feel.

I agree with this fella. Look, if you're eager to brag about how you pwn games and whatnot, sure, you can finish it in 4-6 hours. If you care about experiencing the game wholly though it may take you quite longer.

By this I mean exploring the stages to find little details, take your time to read (and develop) the abilities files(you'll get it once you play it), read the station messages, do the tests as soon as you get them, apply limiters as soon as you get them to up the challenge, fiddle with combinations of abilities etc

Basically if you're one of those people who takes pride in how fast you finish games, chances are you'll finish it on the mentioned average, if you're the sort who enjoys to see the effort put forth by developers on every single detail and take your time to enjoy the game and see everything there is to see it'll last you 3 or more times that time.

[essen]

For me it was 20 hours to 100% (so 2 playthroughs total), with maybe 2 hours of just listening to the music and getting drinks and such. So 18 hours of actual playtime I guess. Most of that was with 10 limiters, and most of the rest of the time was with 5 limiters, so of course I could have gone faster without them. I was lv29 at the end of Recursion and hit lv30 (max level) a couple fights into the second Recursion.

I highly recommend not rushing and enabling 10 limiters permanently as soon as possible, they make the game *really* interesting. Unlike Bastion with its random invincible enemies and other BS, the limiters in Transistor simply make the fights more complex and much more engaging without relying on cheap randomness.

[ninnyjams]

Originally posted by LifeCarrier:

Originally posted by SilentCaay:

<6 is you're a putz who runs through the whole thing, doesn't read a word of the text, skips all the extra challenges and just wants to get it over with ASAP. If you do that, though, just stop gaming, lol.

If you're a real gamer, you know how to soak in a game, you read the text and do the challenges then I can't say yet. I'm at about 8 hours and haven't finished my first run yet. The final boss has been brought up in the story but I have at least one more boss before that, I feel.

I agree with this fella. Look, if you're eager to brag about how you pwn games and whatnot, sure, you can finish it in 4-6 hours. If you care about experiencing the game wholly though it may take you quite longer.

By this I mean exploring the stages to find little details, take your time to read (and develop) the abilities files(you'll get it once you play it), read the station messages, do the tests as soon as you get them, apply limiters as soon as you get them to up the challenge, fiddle with combinations of abilities etc

Basically if you're one of those people who takes pride in how fast you finish games, chances are you'll finish it on the mentioned average, if you're the sort who enjoys to see the effort put forth by developers on every single detail and take your time to enjoy the game and see everything there is to see it'll last you 3 or more times that time.

Are you not reading that I literally just said I beat it in 5.1 hours by seeing everything save for a couple of the function stories (literally two of them, which took all of five minutes into recursion mode to handle). I am not bragging, or complaining, or any variation of the sort. You taking longer to get through the game does not mean you're experiencing more than me. Maybe I just got through battles faster? Is there some sort of super secret three-hour sidequest I'm unaware of? Because I've done everything and it did not take long.

[Galerina]

You need to expand your mind, dude. There's so much more to the game you're missing when you approach it with that attitude. Take it all in. Soak it up.

[Bomoo]

I'm at 14 hours and haven't finished NG+ yet. Who the hell is finishing it in 4 hours? If you're speed running a game like this, you are not approaching it in a way that results in an optimal experience.

[ninnyjams]

Originally posted by Director of Acquisitions:

You need to expand your mind, dude. There's so much more to the game you're missing when you approach it with that attitude. Take it all in. Soak it up.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is pissing me off. I SAW IT ALL AND LOVED IT ALL. I thought there was no chance this would exceed Bastion (my second-favorite game of all time) and I think it DID. I've spent hours talking about the story with my fiancee. I listened to every track on the soundtrack, I hummed just about every time I heard a new track in-game. I did all of the backdoor. But it only took me five hours to do this. Suggesting I saw less than you is such a douchey ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing to say.

[Galerina]

:^)

Glad you enjoyed it.

[Dangerzone]

Seems like 5-8 hours depending on if you do extra challenges, read the files and listen to the tapes, and how much you enjoy experimenting with different function combinations. The last one especially took up a lot of my time, coming up with unique and creative functions is incredibly fun. But if you just stick to the same reliable combinations all game long I could see people breezing through it in 5 hours.

[essen]

Limiters make the game take a lot more time due to do more during fights and then having to deal with replacing broken functions regularly. The test rooms also take quite a bit of time, especially the Performance room.

[Elvis]

Here you go:
http://www.howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=17617

6-12½h from Main story to Completionist.

The numbers will be more reliable with more submissions ofc.

[VolOpt]

Probably 5-6 hrs, I beat it in just under 5 for the primary playthrough.
The game is not a long game tho it is a pretty game and the combat is fun.