How long does it take to get

[Profile ID]

A good save going. I keep getting put off by how long it seems to take. Looking for some rough estimates of how many hours it would take to be decently set up

[Ditchinit]

Only you can define what you mean by "decently set up".

You can do the Awakenings, Artemis, and Atlas main stories in ~20 hours if you push it and don't get sidetracked by various base building side quests. From there you pretty much have it in the bag.

But on the other hand, you can go hundreds of hours looking for the perfect star ship or multi-tool, each incrementally better than the last.

On my current play through, I'm roughly 75 hours in and I almost have every mod I want to get for my exosuit and spaceship; I have all inventory spaces unlocked in my exosuit. I have a great primary space ship which will be hard to find an improvement upon (but there's guaranteed to be one or two improved ships out there). I just acquired a full slot A-class capital ship, so I have a bit of freighter base modification in my near future. And otherwise, I can go where I want and do what I want without much holding me back except my own imagination.

YMMV

[Steptowalk]

Kind of touching on what Ditchinit said. It's the best part of this game is that theres no real 'decently set up.' At first it seems like this game can be really overwhelming, theres so much to do at first that your just trying to get to a point where the harsh planets dont kill you too fast. Theres multiple things you can do like following the mission line or hanker down build a base and get yourself comfortable first.

My usual play everytime I remake is how fast I can get a decent base to being able to make bio domes so I can start my grow ops. I know players that build a base just enough to get components and that's it. Hell you could wait it out until you get a freighter and use that as a permanent home.

I would recommend playing out the primary missions at least once. It's not required to really build anything, between using the blueprint analyzer, base computer and your workers you get. They give you everything you need know. However the missions give you a story of the galaxy. Which I find rather morbid and shocking but great story altogether.

[NMSPlayer]

This depends on your level of experience. I can start a game and be warping in less than two hours. When I started playing this game 9 months ago that same process would take more than 5 hours. It's up to you.