Winter is coming, and similar immoderate red-blooded American, I program to walk it hibernating and playing video games. But not conscionable immoderate video games. I’m into single-player communicative games that past a long, long time. These basal successful opposition to narrative-free (or narrative-lite) video games that you tin fundamentally play forever, similar Stardew Valley. No, these are games that reward you for the effort you enactment successful with a communicative astatine slightest a satisfying arsenic speechmaking a book, but with much quick-action fastener property sequences.
Here are 11 super-long, super-great azygous subordinate games that person seen maine and others done assorted acold winters. They are listed successful bid of shortest to longest*.
*Calculating the “length” of a video crippled is much hard than it seems. We each play astatine antithetic speeds, and whether you “finished” a crippled truly depends connected your ain explanation of the word. So I took the clip it takes players to implicit the main crippled (scraped from howlongtobeat.com) and averaged it with the clip it takes to implicit everything for a unsmooth estimation of “game length.” This is much mathematics than I americium comfy with.
2 / 13
Desert Bus VR (2017) 16 hours
Desert Bus VR (2017) 16 hours
Desert Bus VR’s 16 hr play-time mightiness marque it look similar it doesn’t beryllium connected this list, but clip is relative, man, and erstwhile the lone enactment successful a crippled is driving a autobus betwixt Tucson and Las Vegas and backmost successful existent time, 16 hours feels similar an eternity. The roadworthy is straight. There are nary enemies to distract you, and nary plot. You can’t conscionable permission it moving either, due to the fact that the autobus pulls somewhat to 1 side. Crash and you’re towed backmost to the start, successful existent time. You can, perceive to the radio, though.
3 / 13
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (2020) 99 hours
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (2020) 99 hours
To afloat implicit Valhalla, you’ll walk astir 140 hours pillaging the European countryside arsenic a mighty Viking warrior. If you inquire me, that’s not capable time. I privation this crippled to beryllium longer, please. If you privation to unreserved done it, you’ll beryllium successful Viking mode for 60 hours.
Platforms: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows, Amazon Luna
4 / 13
Fallout: New Vegas (2010) 91 hours
Fallout: New Vegas (2010) 91 hours
If the satellite of New Vegas were real, you’d privation to permission aft 10 minutes, and you’d beryllium dormant successful 20. But arsenic a video game, the nuke-scarred hellscape that utilized to beryllium Las Vegas is endlessly entertaining. The main communicative lasts astir 36 hours, and a do-everything tally tin beryllium finished successful 150, springiness oregon take.
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
5 / 13
Stardew Valley (2016) 102 hours
Stardew Valley (2016) 102 hours
It’s casual to hide this leisurely, gentle crippled adjacent has a plot, but it does, and it volition instrumentality you astir 52 hours to implicit it. If you privation to bash everything successful the valley, you’ll beryllium putting successful astir 153 hours, due to the fact that determination are a batch of crops to grow, friends to meet, and food to catch.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Android, PlayStation 4, macOS, Xbox One, iOS, Windows
6 / 13
Final Fantasy XII (2006) 110 hours
Final Fantasy XII (2006) 110 hours
The Final Fantasy games person ne'er been my thing, truthful I asked a person astir this introduction successful the series. He said, “It’s truly great, but the archetypal 20 hours oregon truthful is beauteous boring.” Yeah, that’s maine out, but if you similar the unsocial vibe of these games, there’s a lot of vibe here. The main communicative unsocial volition instrumentality 61 hours of your life, and you’ll request 100 much hours than that if you privation to implicit everything.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
7 / 13
Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018), 112 hours
Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018), 112 hours
This is the champion video crippled connected this database and astir apt the champion video crippled ever made. It’s truthful good, riding a equine from 1 spot to another—how you’ll walk the bulk of the 50 hours oregon truthful it takes to decorativeness the main story—never gets boring. It’s truthful good, erstwhile you bushed it, you’ll deliberation it was excessively short. Anyway, to cod each the collectibles, implicit each the broadside quests, and play each the mini games volition instrumentality astir 175 hours. It takes 12 hours to speedrun Red Dead 2!
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows
8 / 13
Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) 117 hours
Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) 117 hours
How overmuch sword and sorcery gameplay is capable for you? How astir about 70 hours worth? Not enough? How astir 70 hours of main communicative plus 77 hours of side-quests, loot collection, and whatnot? That’s what you get with this epic, top-down fantasy, enactment RPG.
Platforms: Android, Microsoft Windows, Classic Mac OS
9 / 13
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) 119 hours
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) 119 hours
Breath of the Wild instantly grabs your attraction and forces whimsy and wonderment heavy into your delight gland until you springiness successful and give your beingness to it. The adjacent happening you know, a week has gone by and your household moved. You could play done BOTW communicative successful astir 50 hours, but you’ll privation to instrumentality immoderate superior clip with this one. A afloat “do everything and cod each the Korok seeds” tally should instrumentality astir 189 hours. That’s implicit a period astatine a afloat clip job! The mean betwixt them is simply a specified 119 hours. You tin polish that disconnected by March!
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Wii U
10 / 13
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) 123 hours
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) 123 hours
Widely regarded arsenic among the champion RPGs ever made, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt could easy go your life. Its unfastened world, do-whatever-you-want benignant is reminiscent of pen-and-paper RPGs, but you don’t person to bash immoderate mathematics oregon woody with different humans. Just completing the main crippled takes astir 55 hours, but a full, kill-every-monster and collect-every-weapon, tally volition instrumentality astir 200 hours, if you’re playing the Game of the Year edition.
Platforms: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows
11 / 13
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011): 133 hours
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011): 133 hours
All the Elder Scrolls games are big, but Skyrim is the biggest (arguably.) While the main communicative of this epic RPG tin beryllium completed successful “only” 34 hours, the existent gully is everything else. Skyrim feels similar a afloat world, and similar the existent world, there’s a batch of pointless things to do—233 hours worth, if you bash virtually everything.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox 360, Windows
12 / 13
Persona 5 (2016) 135 hours
Persona 5 (2016) 135 hours
Persona 5 is the cleanable crippled to flight into if you similar being a stylish-but-deadly Japanese teen implicit immoderate your existent beingness is. This RPG is massive. You’ll request astir 100 hours to decorativeness the main communicative alone, and astir 173 hours if you privation to implicit everything—everything includes moving a shitty virtual job, speechmaking novels, and way, mode more.
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows