So, if you’re looking for games where you can spend hours and hours finishing the story, you should check out this list. These are the five longest single-player campaigns you can play today.
1. Persona 5 (97.5 Hours)
This Japanese RPG takes place in Tokyo, where the high school student protagonist, Joker, protects humanity by taking away evil intent from adults through the supernatural realm. Along with his classmates, they also battle against Shadows, which are the manifestations of the evil person in this other world.
Most players take 97.5 hours to finish the single-player campaign. But if you want to complete all objectives, you might need at least 173 hours to accomplish them all. This is the perfect game for those who want to spend months finishing a campaign.
Although this game came out in 2016 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, you can still download and run it on PlayStation 5, albeit with some missing features.
2. Satisfactory (91.5 Hours)
Although still in early access, this factory simulation game has already sold over a million copies. Your purpose in this game is to colonize an alien planet, harvest its natural resources, and build automatic factories. This lets you churn out numerous components the company that sent you needs.
When you first play the game, you’ll have to go through a tutorial, teaching you how to mine iron and copper. From there, you’ll get access to building tiers. These tiers let you build factories, with the lowest tier offering a basic factory. As you increase your tier, you’re able to make more sophisticated factories, allowing you to churn out advanced parts.
The open-world game takes about 91.5 hours to complete the primary campaign. But if you factor in all the other side quests, this could rise to 185 hours. Furthermore, since the game is still in development, you can expect more tiers to be added later, thereby further increasing its playtime length.
3. Elite Dangerous (89.5 Hours)
Those who want an out-of-this-world experience would love this open-world space flight game. Set in an actual 1:1 scale of the Milky Way Galaxy, the player can live any life they want in this universe. At the start, new users are given a spaceship and some money. From there, they’re free to do whatever they want.
These activities include exploration, mining, transportation, trading, piracy, assassination, and bounty-hunting. This game has the same expanse as our own galaxy, which means it’s impossible to explore the area fully in our lifetime. Nevertheless, this game has several missions, which would take around 89.5 hours to complete.
4. Kenshi (80 Hours)
This game is another RPG on our list, where you play as a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. When you’re starting, your low-level character will struggle to survive, often requiring desperate actions. Eventually, you’ll have developed your character enough to recruit other NPCs to your squad. From there, you can grow that into a town where you’re the leader.
Kenshi is a somewhat realistic post-apocalyptic game where your actions have permanent consequences. Global events like deaths and weather can also affect your environment, leading to power vacuums and disruptions.
What’s fascinating about this game is that one man initially developed it from 2006 until 2013. A team then joined him the same year it was released for early access. Finally, the complete game was officially released in 2018.
It takes about 80 hours to complete the main objectives of the game. But if you want to complete every achievement and goal, be prepared to spend 271 hours or more.
5. Valheim (71.5 Hours)
If you’re into exploration and survival, you’re going to love Valheim. This game takes place in a world where fallen Vikings must prove themselves to be worthy of a place in the halls of Valhalla. To do so, you must defeat the five bosses located throughout the game.
Survival in this game means you have to forage, hunt, or farm for food and gather or mine materials to build shelters. However, what makes this game unique is that you have a health bar and a stamina bar. The former gets depleted if you get injured or wounded, while the latter is affected by your actions.
To replenish both, you have to eat food. However, not all food types are the same. While ordinary food does heal you, high-quality meals increase these stats further. It could then give you an advantage whenever you face a boss.
Beyond the single-player campaign, you could also cooperate with up to nine other players to achieve common objectives. Regardless of whether you’re playing solo or not, be prepared to spend at least 71.5 hours on the main storyline. And if you want to complete all objectives, you’re probably going to be doing that for at least 131 hours.
Lose Yourself While Gaming
Some people love watching movies and TV shows for their stories, while others prefer to live the story by being the protagonist in the game. With AAA titles costing more than six to eight times more than a typical cinema ticket, you don’t want the game’s campaign to feel short.
So, if you’re raring to lose yourself for a month or so playing a game, be sure to pick one with an extended storyline. That way, you’ll feel as if you’ve lived the life of the game’s protagonist. When you don’t feel short-changed with the title you bought, then all the time you spent completing the game is worth it.
