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10 Recent Longest Games That Take 100 Hours to 100%

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10 Recent Longest Games That Take 100 Hours to 100% Number 10 Blizzard's latest entry in the Diablo series, is one of those games that isn't incredibly long to finish, but it's got a massive endgame that can potentially keep you going for more than a hundred hours or more. HowLongToBeat averages out the time to finish the main story at only about 26-and-a-half hours. But if you want to be a completionist, it's gonna take significantly longer to finish this thing. That's because you're really only scratching the surface of a Diablo game when you beat it the first time. The point of these games is to continue progressing through difficulty levels to max out your character. It's a tried-and-true formula that Diablo IV monkeys with in a few key ways that in some ways, makes the completion shorter, but in other ways, makes it feel a lot longer. The reason players have been complaining so much about the post-game, all the new seasonal stuff, it is grindy as hell! The latest season at least seems to be addressing players' characters a little. So maybe, it's improved since release. But either way, all the post-game stuff boils down to grinding, grinding. And what was the other thing? There was one more thing. Oh yeah, more grinding! Depending on who you are, that's either a positive or a negative. But even if you're not that interested in anything else, the main campaign is plenty enough fun to play through and you'll probably get your money's worth from it if nothing else. And number nine is Final Fantasy XVI. The newest entry in the Final Fantasy series deviates from the series' roots in a lot of ways. I mean, for one thing, it's pretty much an action game. That doesn't mean it's short though. Number 9 If you're playing through the main story and nothing else, the game takes about 36 hours to finish, a little bit more even. You can easily double that if you want to be a completionist about things. That's pretty lengthy for a game with combat like this one, like that's a 40 to 80-hour Devil May Cry game. Some of the side quests can be kind of dull and forgettable, but the monster hunts are a ton of fun in this thing. It did end up being kind of a divisive game. It rubs some people the wrong way. Personally, I'm kind of just glad we got a Final Fantasy that feels like a complete game. It actually feels like the execution of a bunch of different ideas that melds together and lands somewhere and does it pretty well, I think. And number eight is Fire Emblem Engage. Easy to forget that a Fire Emblem game came out recently and I'm not talking about Three Houses. In comparison to the previous Fire Emblem, Engage is kind of short, it's only 40 hours long. But by any normal standard, that's quite long. Number 8 In reality, you're gonna play it longer than that too. Rather than the Persona like personal links and system of Three Houses, Engage streamlines things in its campaign and camp setup. You're mostly focusing on combat this time around, which I'm not opposed to. Obviously, I like Persona stuff, but it could get a bit tedious in the previous one. It could get tiring after a while. So it's nice to have more of the back-to-basics-type Fire Emblem stuff here. This one kind of got overlooked due to how stacked 2023 was. But it's another solid entry in the Fire Emblem series that's actually pretty streamlined and short, compared to the last Fire Emblem game. And number seven is Wild Hearts. Number 7 Another kind of forgotten game that, I mean, it has a few flaws, but it's one of the more interesting Monster-Hunter-likes that came out in recent years. Like pretty much any monster-hunting game, Wild Hearts has a lot of grinding. So getting through the campaign takes a while. In this game's case, the main story takes about 41-and-a-half hours. And if you want to go completionist, it's a 130. The basic gameplay hook, it's easy to recognize if you know Monster Hunter. You take missions, hunt monsters, skin them, craft weapons out of their bones and armor out of their hides and then you do it all over again. The thing that gave this game its unique identity, are these traps you can build that assist with hunting. At the most basic level, you can drop down boxes for climbing, or sprint to speed up your movement. But they quickly get more complex. It's sort of a combination of Fortnite and Monster Hunter that works in a actually genuinely good way. And it adds this layer of strategy or hunts. It's super interesting. Post-release has been pretty weak in terms of support though. The PC version still runs a lot worse than it should. But if you're dying for something to hold you over until the next Monster Hunter, and especially something that adds something unique to the formula itself, this is a great time-waster. And number six is Jagged Alliance 3. This one has been a very long time coming. The original version of Jagged Alliance 3 was announced back in 2004. It took 19 years for this thing to actually come out. Number 6 And obviously, the reason we're looking at it, it has nothing to do with when it was originally announced. It's good, 'cause there's been a lot of attempts to bring back the Jagged Alliance game. Most of them are pretty bad. This one sticks close to the format that was put in place with the first two and it's all the better for it. The tactical game is sort of XCOM crossed with an eighties action movie. At the start of the game, you recruit mercenaries, buy up equipment. Then you invade a made-up country on a mission to rescue the president and restore order. What makes this game unique, is how your mercenaries are paid weekly. You don't just recruit them and call it a day. You need to keep all your soldiers paid, or they will quit on you. Yeah, it's actually a pretty cool little twist on this genre, 'cause you gotta be smart about what and where you attack. 'Cause it is easy to run out of equipment. It's also easy to lose too many people and just run out of money. Like most tactical games, this thing is pretty long. If you wanna finish the main story, that alone takes 48-and-a-half hours and that's if you're rushing. These games are not the type that you would want to rush though, especially the first time around. Jagged Alliance too can be pretty brutal for newbies, but it's a great continuation of a venerated series. And number five is Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, the sequel to Breath of the Wild. It's bigger in almost every way. Number 5 Sure, uses the same map, but there's two new layers, the sky layer and the underground, which they managed to make the world feel completely new, despite the fact that it is not. And I'm somebody who played the previous game to death and I still think that. The thing that makes me really excited about this game though, even retrospectively, I've played the hell out of this one now. But of the new powers, especially Ultrahand, which lets you attach objects together and do just about anything, it's one of the most unusual, innovative things in any open-world game. It's impossible to say enough good things about how brilliant the Ultrahand is. If you're playing the game normally, it could take a while. If you're mostly focused on the story, it'll take about 60 hours to finish. You wanna do some extras, that number jumps to about 115 hours. You want to be a completionist about this thing, it's about 240 hours. Of course, you can finish the game in less than an hour if you beeline towards Ganon. But unlike Breath of the Wild, it's a lot harder to actually pull off in this game. The last boss doesn't mess around. So just fighting him right from the start, isn't going to be easy. It can be done, but it's not the sort of thing I am pulling off anytime soon, so there's that. And number four is Octopath Traveler II. This old-school, JRPG throwback, is absolutely packed to the brim with content. There are eight separate character-stories to follow that you can tackle in any order. There are mini-campaigns focusing on two characters and there's a post-game story, bonus bosses, side quests and a huge world to explore. Number 4 There's an absolute ton to do in this game and it's an overall better package than the original. If you bounced off the first game, check out the sequel, 'cause it's really an improvement. Your party actually interacts with each other more. The character-stories are more varied and interesting. And the turn-based combat is even more interesting. It's an old-school RPG, but there's real depth to the combat that keeps things interesting. The art style is charming, the music is fantastic. It's just a fun game that's also pretty damn long, seriously, 16-and-a-half hours for the main story. But for most people, it's probably gonna take more like 90, maybe more. I mean, there's eight different stories in the game and it mixes things up for you. It's not exhausting. Although, it sounds like it could be, it genuinely, really, it flies by. And number three is Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. Number 3 CRPG developer Owlcats follow up to the Pathfinder games, takes a franchise that seems incompatible with CRPGs and somehow makes it work. I mean, think about taking a series, which model is in the grim darkness of the far future. There is only war. And you turn it into a dialogue-heavy RPG. Well, for one thing to do that, you adapt already existing source book and another is that you do put in a whole hell of a lot of combat. Sure, there's more than enough talking and questing and looting, but you spend a lot of the time on battlefields, fighting the forces of chaos. There's space exploration, colony-building. You resolve disputes in your kingdom and even engage in space battles. This is a massive game that's so long that HowLongToBeat.com barely has any information on it. They say on average, it'll take about 96 hours, give or take. But I don't really know what that means. Because they don't have any data on if you're just playing the story, or if you're doing other things or what. I have a feeling it can be a lot more than that. Number 2 And number two is Baldur's Gate 3. I don't think anybody could have anticipated just how much of a breakout success this game would end up being. I mean, sure, it's obviously great, but this is the type of RPG that's pretty niche. But that does not apply here, or maybe it's not niche anymore. I don't know. Let's see when the next big one comes out.computer RPGs are pretty long by default and Baldur's Gate 3 is obviously no exception. It could take anywhere between 60-or-so hours to a 150. It took me about 80 and I did a lot of the side quests. At a certain point, I probably should have stopped. I reached the max level well before the endgame. I don't really know what else needs to be said about this one though. It's a beautiful, complex and really satisfying RPG with great, memorable characters and deep tactical combat. It's really good if you have a tolerance for CRPGs in any way. And if that's you, give this a try. Because I can't imagine you being disappointed by it. And finally, at number one, My Time at Sandrock. This one is a game I haven't really gotten the opportunity to talk about. Number 1 And it really deserves the spotlight for once, not just because it's incredibly long, I mean this game is incredibly long, but it deserves the spotlight, because it's honestly very good. It takes everything that was good about the original game, My Time at Portia or Portia or what have you. It takes everything about that game and makes it better. Like, think of this one like Stardew Valley, if instead of focusing on a farm, you're just like a straight up builder. There is animal-raising and farming. But your main goal is to like keep the town running. So like Stardew and games like it, time is constantly ticking down. You've only got so much stamina in a day to do things. But what makes Sandrock really stand out, is that for one thing, it is a beautiful game. It's cartoony, but the environment really looks fantastic and it's genuinely a lot of fun to explore.completely packed, chock-full of content, right? There's so much stuff to do that it's almost overwhelming. This translates into game length. If you just wanna finish the game, it can take around 80 hours and that's if you're bee-lining all the main story quests and stuff. Like if you really take your time and take things in, it's gonna take twice as long. My time at Sandrock is a farm game with charm to spare and it's going to keep you busy for a very, very long time, which this video is no longer going to do. That's all for today. Leave us a comment, let us know what you think. If you like this video, click like. If you're not subscribed, now's a great time to do so. We upload brand-new videos every day of the week.
Date: 2024-02-11

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Comments and reviews: 20

Nikko027
10. 0: 14 - Diablo IV
9. 1: 33 - Final Fantasy XVI
8. 2: 23 - Fire Emblem Engage
7. 3: 13 - Wild Hearts
6. 4: 21 - Jagged Alliance 3
5. 5: 33 - Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
4. 6: 41 - Octopath Traveler 2
3. 7: 42 - Warhammer 40, 000: Rogue Trader
2. 8: 43 - Baldurs Gate 3
1. 9: 43 - My Time at Sandrock
Bonus (My Opinion & Not Mentioned): Warframe, why Since the game is time-gated, you cant complete everything in one day. The game is nearing 100 playable Warframes (characters) with unique abilities. It has over 300 weapons that are locked at certain levels. You can ride skateboards, own your own spaceship, fly in a jet powered wingsuit type outfit, etc. I'm 3k hours in the game and I have still yet to 100% the game.
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gameranx
I'm aware of how long Tears of the Kingdom is since I had to plan everything out thoughtout the day just to get started on it. The fact that I had to find all the shrines AND the lightroots in Tears of the Kingdom is a challenge in it of itself since some of them are hard to get to or you had to complete a main quest just to gain accsss to it. Some of the sidequests in the game are tied into a shrine location. I love Octopath Traveler 2 so much and I played the heck out of it when I first played it. Granted, it took me months, a lot of grinding, and finding all of the secret jobs in the game just to beak it but I did it.
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AleksiJoensuu
Either I'm slow or others really fast. I spent around 190 hours on my first BG3 playthrough. Heck, I even spent almost 60 hours on Prey, and people say it's a 15-20 hour game. Running on about 170 hours in Kingdom Come: Deliverance now, with a couple of the DLCs still to go and the main storyline about 3/4, so I think I'm looking at 200 hours in that, too.
And these are not 100% times, just regular playthroughs. Like, I consider 100% to be doing all quests, finding all areas, getting all achievements etc, which could take multiple playthroughs.
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rugidgaming7706
Love these types of videos can you do a video on kingdom come and are you able to find out if theres gonna be a sequal please gameranx, im so hoping i only juat recently started playing KCD but im so glad i did im inlove with the game im trying to not conplete it cause i dont want to stop playing the game is so awesome im obsessed with it i play it everyday i hope i dont ever stop playing KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE
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user-vg6qv5jv3w
Games are so padded out for no reason. And gamers expect it and complain if the game is short and sweet.
Return to Moria had 5 hours of content at best, but they kept you underpowered making you question if you missed something while your character spams I need a better weapon! And then rushes a final boss fight and tells you to go rebuild and even gives you a quest after the credits to do it.
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AhmadSattout97
So instead of actually mentioning MH Rise or World, you mention the worst MH type game that ever came out
From what I heard, Wild Hearts flopped on arrival. NO ONE played it and said anything good about it, and the only way people played it was through Game Pass
Same with instead of mentioning a good competitor like Last Epoch, you mention Diablo 4
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OneSteezy
Diablo 4 is garbage. The endgame isn’t anything special.
I’m really surprised these guys even put this on here.
I put in about 6 days game time when Diablo 4 first dropped. I didn’t even make it to level 100.
Grind level 90 dungeons, so fun
This game is mid at best. DO NOT BUY IT. Gameranx is smoking that loud pack.
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gameranx
PS5 ARK Ascended, I got 100 hours and counting. Also all the included additional DLCS are not even out yet. Game still got 4 huge updates to come as they finish remaking the dlcs from ground up. The MODS are a big plus too. The Survival Of The Fittest map is no easy picnic but a fun addicting challenge
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NotThatBob
Gameranx makes GREAT videos. But his obsession with Diablo IV and trying to sell it as a great game, is annoying. Flip side of the coin, big thanks for mentioning the Fire Emblem game. I haven't had time to play it, but yes, that's a game I need to purchase and put on my play list. Cheers all
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quistador7
I wasn't able to play BG3 because my idiot friend is a perfectionist, so every time a decision was made that wasn't the most OP, he would force everyone to go back to the save state and retry the entire fight. That lasted about 3 days until we just stopped playing altogether because he's an idiot
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therisingof1
4: 19 wild hearts was easily one of the best games I played I had it on my list for a while and saw the before you buy and bought it immediately. The combat is crazy fun and makes the grind way more fun than monster hunter. If you get some friends the experience jumps to a 10, just pure fun
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taurellreed2716
Me playing forspoken, 70hrs main story done, still going for the platinum, which might take me another 10-30hrs because the map is HUGE. the game is really so much fun. Wish people gave it an actual chance before bandwagon hating.
Didn't even touch the DLC yet.
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Ylseroth
I'm amazed that Persona 3 Reload isn't on this list, the campaign alone is 70 hours, and that's if you're going pretty fast. Platinum trophy for filling out stats, links, exploration, secret bosses and compendium easily puts it over 100 hours just for your first playthrough
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robozot
I got sucked into cyberpunk v1. 5 for 90 hours. I thought it was amazing. Usually though, I lose the will to live when I see a game takes that much time out of my life. I loved A Short Hike for that reason, 2 hours and done; and Cocoon, 6 hours and super satisfied.
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gameranx
Usually never play long games due to work, kids, and all that. But currently on my second play through of Midnight Suns. Not big on super hero’s but that game just hits the spot. Love it or hate it type of game but I would definitely recommend checking it out!
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ColeVecsion
Ff16 coming out like 2 or 3 months before the ps5 release of baulder's gate 3 did NOT do it any favors ontop of bg3 being classic rpg style while ff16 was all action
Ff16's staggered pc release is probably the biggest break that games gonna get
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kinggaming3620
To me red dead redemption 2 take 150 hour's
Cyber punk 135 hours
Assassin's Odyssey 140 hours
Witcher 3 246 hour's
And last horizon zero about 100 hours to finish it in my opinion red dead and cyber punk best acording to me
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Youtubeshoahedme
Wild Hearts I genuinely enjoyed more than Rise/sunbreak and it’s a MASSIVE shame it was seen as a failure and abandoned. Definitely had ludicrous potential and could’ve been a serious MH competitor imo. (A much needed one too Imo)
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roguesoul6760
Final Fantasy entry: it's nice to have a complete game
Wild Hearts: post launch support has been meh
And we wonder why games like the justice league couldn't make up their minds of what it wants to be and ends up crap.
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TrimutiusToo
I look at my 150 hours in BG3 and i am still in the very beginning of act 3 and that is after i decided to ignore Laezel and Astarion, so i am not even doing all the side quests just very big chunk of them. It is fun tho
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