How long is this game?

[Svante.]

and is it one of those that you have to replay in order to complete it?

[jack_of_tears]

No, you don't have to replay the game, though you may want to in order to see all the possible repercussions to your decisions.

The game is around 30 hours long, give or take 5 hours. It took me 32ish hours to complete. The game is heavily character-focused and requires a huge amount of reading, so if those aren't your thing, you might not be interested.

If you think you might like it, I'd recommend buying it on Steam and playing for 2 hours, to decide for yourself, as it won't be the game for everyone. Everything in the game is fairly well encapsulated in those first 2 hours, so if you decide it's not your cuppa, you can still return it. I did enjoy myself and easily lost myself in each play session. The writing is very good, the characters are entertaining, and the mechanics are unique.

It is worth your time, if you enjoy the genre.

[thejuiceweasel]

It's highly depending on how much side content you do and how fast of a reader you are.

I'm no native speaker, but a fast reader, and I did a somewhat thorough playthrough in 37 hours, being on the quest train all the time.

You can definitely go longer than that by checking out the books and other things you can buy in the game, also if you take more time to do what you want, or read on a leisurely pace, i could see someone go 50 hours on a playthrough.

So I'd say 28 hours minimum, 35-40 average, 50+ for very relaxed play.

[LDiCesare]

Took me around 22h, including 3 to 5h of running around doing nothing interesting but trying to find some side quest to gain xp in order to unlock progress in the main quest. If you buy and read every book in game and do every dialogue possible, it will last longer.

[Dan]

I just started day 3 out of 7, and I've clocked 25 hours... I'm admittedly a slow, thorough reader and tend to plod around drinking in the atmosphere - it's seeming as though for me, there's no way I'm clocking a playthrough in less than 50 hours, even if my pace picked up... could be more like 80.

So yeah, playtime is entirely dependant on you...