Game Completion Time Calculator: How Long to Beat It

Game Completion Time helps you plan when you will finish a game based on its total playtime and your gaming schedule.

The basic formula:

Sessions to Complete = Total Game Hours / Hours Per Session
Weeks to Complete = Sessions to Complete / Sessions Per Week

A 40-hour game played in 2-hour sessions three times a week is 20 sessions, or just under seven weeks. Total Game Hours is the main-story length times the multiplier for your completion style below.

Completion styles and their time multipliers:

• Main story only: base time (e.g., 30 hours)
• Main + side quests: typically 1.5-2× the main story time
• Completionist (100%): typically 2-4× the main story time
• Speedrun: typically 30-50% of main story time

Average game lengths by genre:

• Open-world RPG: 40-100 hours (main story), 100-300 hours (completionist)
• Action/Adventure: 10-20 hours
• FPS Campaign: 6-12 hours
• JRPG: 40-80 hours
• Indie/Platformer: 5-15 hours
• Strategy: 20-50 hours per campaign
• Visual Novel: 10-30 hours
• Roguelike: 20-50 hours (varies wildly)
• Sports/Racing: no real “completion”, these run indefinitely

Factors that affect your actual play time:

• Difficulty setting: higher difficulty can add 20-50% more time
• Player skill level: experienced gamers may be faster
• Exploration habits: thorough explorers take longer
• Cutscene watching: skipping cutscenes saves 5-15% of total time
• Death/retry time: challenging sections add unpredictable time

Gaming backlog planning:

If you want to know when you will finish your entire backlog, add up total hours for all games and divide by your weekly gaming hours.
Many gamers have backlogs that would take years to complete.

The average gamer plays about 7-8 hours per week according to industry surveys.