Witcher how many hours

It's usually the opposite. Earlier this year, just before developer Ready at Dawn's PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: was released, a YouTube user published a full playthrough showing that it could be finished — but didn't have to be — in about five hours. A year earlier, pre-release reports pegged Konami's Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes ' main mission at about two hours long — and subsequent videos showed it didn't have to take that long.

Just last month, a YouTube video chronicled the minute path to beating Bloodborne. Those reports aren't inaccurate, but headline-sized snippets about length don't take other factors into account, as developers are happy to point out.

And speedrunning Bloodborne relied in part on glitches and exploits, some of which developer From Software patched out of the game. The point is, even accurate reporting about length — whether it's about Ground Zeroes or The Witcher 3 or Bloodborne — is often more nuanced that it may first appear.

But that doesn't mean that arriving at a reasonable figure is impossible. In short, by accounting for the bias of unusually experienced playtesters. Is hours a reasonable assumption? Again, it depends. Doehla offered The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 's prologue as another example of the malleable nature of time inside the game. He's seen players fly through in 40 minutes and watched others spend four or five hours.

He knows someone who's played hours of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and still hasn't seen all the content. And CD Projekt Red will continue learning. But then on day two and day three, they'll take very different routes, and it'll be interesting to see when they figure out how huge the differences are.

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The first add-on, Hearts of Stone, features an extremely short campaign comparatively. You'll only need to set aside 10 hours on average to finish the main content. Time-conscious players may shave that down to a mere 6 hours, while leisurely witchers can take over 15 hours exploring the additional short story. Hearts of Stone also includes a little bit of its own side content, extending the playtime a bit more. Blood and Wine is the second and far more substantial expansion, acting as the game's epilogue and bringing roughly an additional 15 hours of main story to The Witcher 3 on average.

It also substantially increases the amount of side content by again doubling that runtime if you go for sidequests. If you're like many witcher fans, then you're in this for the long haul and want to know what you're in for taking on the entirety of The Witcher 3 and its two expansions.

Again, that'll depend on how efficient you are at maximizing your time in-game, but here are the estimated time investments required for tackling every conceivable encounter throughout The Witcher 3, Heart of Stone, and Blood and Wine. The Witcher 3 is a sprawling single-player RPG with so much to do it can be overwhelming.

The game world is huge. Points of interest litter the map. Dialogue trees mean you can play through pivotal scenes in different ways. I can think of far worse games to be stuck on a desert island with for the rest of my life.