How long does it take to play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt?

The Witcher 3's main story runs about 52 hours and full completion over 150. Its two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, add roughly 10 and 30 hours respectively, and Blood and Wine is longer than many standalone games. The side quests are unusually substantial — several run longer than the main quests of other games — which is why the gap between the main-story and completionist figures is so large here despite the world being hand-authored rather than generated.

The numbers

Total

2 days 4 hours

In hours

52 hours

Non-stop

2.2 days without sleeping

Covers

base game main story; completionist runs exceed 150 hours

At a realistic pace

two hours an evening

That works out as

about 26 days

What this assumes

Player-reported median for the base game main story. Expansions are excluded and add roughly 40 hours.

Figures are player medians with a wide spread; the expansions are not included in the headline number.

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