How long does it take to play Baldur's Gate 3?

Baldur's Gate 3 takes roughly 50 hours for a first playthrough, but this is the least stable figure in this list — published medians range from 35 to 68 hours for the same content. The reason is that the game branches heavily: two players can finish having seen substantially different material, and reading speed matters because much of the game is text. Larian recorded over 170 hours of cinematics, more than any player sees in one run. Full completion approaches 130 hours and still misses whole questlines.

The numbers

Total

2 days 2 hours

In hours

50 hours

Non-stop

2.1 days without sleeping

Covers

main story; completionist runs are roughly 130 hours

At a realistic pace

two hours an evening

That works out as

about 25 days

What this assumes

Player-reported median for a first main-story playthrough. Published figures range from 35 to 68 hours, and the spread is genuine rather than measurement error.

Sources disagree materially: main-story medians from 35 to 68 hours and completionist figures from 112 to 150 hours are all published.

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