How long does it take to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?

Breath of the Wild's main story takes around 50 hours for a typical player, but the game can be finished in under an hour by a player who walks straight to the final boss — the design deliberately permits it. That makes it the largest gap between "possible" and "typical" of any game here, and it is why speedrun times and median times for this title are not comparable quantities at all. Full completion, including all 900 korok seeds, runs well past 150 hours. Published completionist medians vary widely, from about 90 to nearly 200 hours.

The numbers

Total

2 days 2 hours

In hours

50 hours

Non-stop

2.1 days without sleeping

Covers

main story; completionist runs are 150 hours and up

At a realistic pace

two hours an evening

That works out as

about 25 days

What this assumes

Player-reported median for a main-story completion. The game imposes no required route, so the spread runs from under an hour to several hundred.

Completionist medians published between 90 and 190 hours; the disagreement is real and reflects different definitions of completion.

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