How long is 10 hours?

[Donitz]

The hardest mission difficulty gives you a 10 hour time limit. I don't know how this game differs from the original. Is 10 hours a long time in this game, or are you forced to speedrun most of it?

[Love'li-land]

Find out in your first normal playthrough.

[Casus]

A normal playthrough is between 10 and 20 hours.

That said, human psychology is a strange thing.

Much like it's way, way scarier to stand on a log that's 20 feet in the air than one that is just above the ground (gravity and balance works the same way in both cases) - it's way, way more stressful to have a 10-hour time limit than not to have it even if you don't need more than 10 hours.

[Donitz]

But I'd rather just start at the hardest difficulty. I was going to do that anyway, except I'm hesitant for the mission difficulty. You get a nice achievement for using the hardest on all.

[Donitz]

Originally posted by Casus:

A normal playthrough is between 10 and 20 hours.

That said, human psychology is a strange thing.

Much like it's way, way scarier to stand on a log that's 20 feet in the air than one that is just above the ground - it's way, way more stressful to have a 10-hour time limit than not have it.

20 hours? Jeebus. I'm a hoarder in immersive sims. Maybe I best avoid the time limit.

[Love'li-land]

Originally posted by Donitz:

But I'd rather just start at the hardest difficulty. I was going to do that anyway, except I'm hesitant for the mission difficulty. You get a nice achievement for using the hardest on all.

Then just set everything to 3 except mission then and you get hardest difficulty without permadeath and a time limit.

[Donitz]

Originally posted by Lovelyland:

Originally posted by Donitz:

But I'd rather just start at the hardest difficulty. I was going to do that anyway, except I'm hesitant for the mission difficulty. You get a nice achievement for using the hardest on all.

Then just set everything to 3 except mission then and you get hardest difficulty without permadeath and a time limit.

Wait, you get permadeath with mission 3 too? Damn, I'd love that. Everything except the limit.

[Angry Nord-Grunge Syndicate]

10 hours for first try might be a little rough.
Level design is not very linear and you can move around quite freely on levels, so you'll spend a lot of time just wandering about.

[Crypto Gamer]

Time limit is likely intended once you already know where everything "mandatory" is just like in the OG and even then you need to hurry likely skipping some hidden doors and other optional stuff.

So it is not recommended for the first time as you can be too slow and perma ruin your run.
And if you have OCD and want to recycle tons of stuff for resources time limit won't help.

[Donitz]

Right. I guess it's not really a good idea then (unless I want to restart the game a few time which I enjoy), but even so. Getting 8 hours into the game and realizing you can't win would suck.

[ParasiteX]

Originally posted by Donitz:

Originally posted by Casus:

A normal playthrough is between 10 and 20 hours.

That said, human psychology is a strange thing.

Much like it's way, way scarier to stand on a log that's 20 feet in the air than one that is just above the ground - it's way, way more stressful to have a 10-hour time limit than not have it.

20 hours? Jeebus. I'm a hoarder in immersive sims. Maybe I best avoid the time limit.

If you're natural reaction is to hoard in these games. Then skip the time limit for your first run. You're gonna regret it otherwise.

[breadman]

10 hours is 1 hour 10 times

hope this helps