There is a difference between a long game and a padded one. These 13 take 100 hours or more to finish completely, and in each case the hours are the reason to play rather than the price of admission.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the biggest commitment here at roughly 255h to see everything in it. The main-story column matters on this page: most of these can be finished far faster if you skip the optional content, and several are better that way on a first run.
Ordered by completionist time, longest first.
| Game | Studio | Year | Main story | Completionist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Bethesda Game Studios | 2011 | 34h | 255h |
| The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | Bethesda Game Studios | 2006 | 28h | 200h |
| The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | Nintendo | 2017 | 50h | 190h |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | Rockstar Games | 2018 | 50h | 185h |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | CD Projekt Red | 2015 | 52h | 175h |
| Baldur's Gate 3 | Larian Studios | 2023 | 75h | 145h |
| Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | Warhorse Studios | 2025 | 45h | 140h |
| Elden Ring | FromSoftware | 2022 | 58h | 135h |
| Dragon Age: Inquisition | BioWare | 2014 | 48h | 130h |
| Nioh 3 est | Team Ninja | 2026 | 45h | 130h |
| Crimson Desert est | Pearl Abyss | 2026 | 40h | 120h |
| Hades II | Supergiant Games | 2025 | 26h | 100h |
| Mewgenics est | Edmund McMillen & Tyler Glaiel | 2026 | 25h | 100h |
Fifteen years on, still the default answer to wanting somewhere to get lost.
Dragons, mountains and a modding scene that never stopped. Bethesda has re-released it so often it became a punchline, and people keep buying it anyway.
34h main story · 110h with extras · 255h to 100%
Walk in any direction and fall straight into somebody else's problem.
Cyrodiil's guild questlines and the Dark Brotherhood still outclass most open worlds twenty years on. A 2025 Unreal Engine 5 remaster put it back on current hardware, Switch 2 included.
28h main story · 86h with extras · 200h to 100%
Climb anything, cook everything: the open world that made every other map feel small.
Nintendo hands you a ruined kingdom and almost no instructions. Physics, weather and chemistry turn improvisation into the real mechanic, so two players rarely solve anything the same way.
50h main story · 100h with extras · 190h to 100%
The slowest, most beautiful western ever built. Let it take its time.
An outlaw gang running out of frontier. The detail borders on absurd, and the quiet moments between shootouts are the ones that stay with you.
50h main story · 80h with extras · 185h to 100%
Side quests written better than most games manage for their main story.
A monster hunter for hire on a war-scarred continent, where choices rarely split clean. The two expansions amount to a second great game bolted onto the first.
52h main story · 105h with extras · 175h to 100%
A tabletop campaign where almost every ridiculous plan actually works.
Larian tracks your choices with uncanny patience and lets the cast argue back. Turn-based combat stays readable even when you are shoving someone off a cliff for the third time.
75h main story · 100h with extras · 145h to 100%
Medieval life simulation where you can genuinely lose a sword fight.
A grounded RPG with no magic and a great deal of mud. It rewards preparation, patience and remembering to eat before riding across the map.
45h main story · 85h with extras · 140h to 100%
Punishing combat set loose in a world that rewards reckless curiosity.
An open world built around secrets instead of checklists. Every horizon hides a boss, a dungeon or a quiet joke at your expense, and summoning a friend is always an option.
58h main story · 100h with extras · 135h to 100%
A fantasy war where your companions argue, flirt and occasionally walk out.
BioWare at its most sprawling: huge zones, a war table of decisions, and a cast that players still pick fights about a decade later. The first game ever to win at The Game Awards.
48h main story · 85h with extras · 130h to 100%
Stance-swapping combat tuned for people who enjoy being tested.
Team Ninja's hardest-hitting series returns with more build freedom and more bosses than is strictly reasonable. Loot-heavy in the best way.
45h main story · 75h with extras · 130h to 100% est
A sprawling action epic with wrestling moves and real weather.
Pearl Abyss leans on physical, grappling-heavy combat across a continent of side business. Enormous, and clearly intent on proving it.
40h main story · 70h with extras · 120h to 100% est
Bigger, witchier and sharper than the original run.
A new protagonist, two surfaces to fight across and a spell-casting layer stacked on top of Supergiant's best-in-class combat. Nintendo-only at first, on PlayStation and Xbox since April 2026.
26h main story · 50h with extras · 100h to 100%
Breed cats, build a squad, watch everything go horribly wrong.
Turn-based tactics with chaotic genetics from the pair behind Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac. Fourteen years in development, a million copies sold in week one.
25h main story · 50h with extras · 100h to 100% est