Players are able to enjoy hundreds of hours of gameplay across the entire Witcher video game catalogue, and here follows a breakdown of how long each game takes to beat. Starting off is not only Geralt's debut in the world of video games, but the first major project for CD Projekt Red. The studio set out to make an RPG based on the incredibly deep lore of Sapkowski's novels, and decided to have it take place after the events of the last novel, Lady of the Lake.
To help introduce new players to the world of Witchers, Geralt suffers from amnesia at the start of the game. Eventually, players learn a bit more about Geralt's backstory, coming in contact with friends, acquaintances, and enemies who remember him from before.
The Witcher was a success for CD Projekt Red , and many praised the game for its narrative choices that could affect players several chapters later, along with its morally gray characters.
For gameplay, The Witcher can be played in either a top-down perspective or traditional over-the-shoulder one. While most players took around 35 hours to complete the main contents of the game, others spent upwards of 60 hours completing everything they could. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings picks up straight after the end of the first game, seeing Geralt deal with the aftermath of an assassination attempt on a king's life.
Players will have to face off against Witcher-like assassins, and can go down multiple different plot lines depending on what characters they side with in key game moments. The developers also added complexity to the combat system, adding the ability to lay traps and throw ranged weapons, for example. Players could explore the newly-styled Continent to continue Geralt's story.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition offers 24 hours of gameplay for its Main Story, 34 hours for story content and side quests, and 54 hours on average for a completionist playthrough.
Though The Witcher 2 takes less time to complete than its predecessor, it utilizes newer technology and offers a more seamless experience than The Witcher 1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is likely the most well-known and most-played Witcher title in the series, bringing the franchise into the spotlight of the gaming industry. The Witcher 3 has the most content of the trilogy and includes two sizable DLCs.
Completionists can experience more than the two playstyles combined, obtaining an average of hours. Hearts of Stone is much smaller than its companion, offering 10 hours of story content, 14 hours of extra activities, and almost 19 hours for Completionist playthroughs. Still, play time is something CD Projekt Red takes seriously, despite it's murky nature. The challenge lies in quantifying a sprawling role-playing game like The Witcher 3.
Its open-ended design means players can pick and choose what they do — and what they don't do. In short, the options that players discover, pursue and ignore will affect the total time spent in the game. And that makes it difficult to quantify the median time players will spend in The Witcher 3.
The discussion surrounding The Witcher 3 — the hour figure appeared on the German language site Gamereactor last week — is a microcosm of larger discussions about video game playtime. Knowledge about length tends to circulate just before game releases, and those stories are rarely about how long it takes to complete a game.
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. 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.
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