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100% completion can cost months: at 6 hours a week, Tears of the Kingdom’s last stretch runs about 22 weeks. Here’s when it pays off and where to stop.

Red Dead Redemption 2 runs about 50 story hours, and even a rushed run spends
roughly 10 in cutscenes. Here’s what that means for your week.

Elden Ring’s main route had a 30-hour target. HowLongToBeat’s Main Story average is 60. Why the gap exists, and what it means at two nights a week.

Cyberpunk 2077 is worth it in 2026 if you skip the PS4 and Xbox One versions, which stopped at Update 1.6. Here’s how many weeks it takes at your pace.

Is Stardew Valley still worth playing at 3 hours a week? Community figures say 53.5 hours for the main story; here is the calendar.

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 asks 30+ hours for its story, per the developer. Here’s the pace at 5 hours a week, and who should skip it.

Baldur’s Gate 3 worth it? Larian’s 75–100-hour estimate becomes 15–20 weeks at 5 hours a week. See what that means before you start.

Games like Expedition 33, shortest first: one beats its 29-hour story by an hour, and one takes about 13 weeks at 5 hours a week.

Games like Hollow Knight, by weeks not hours: at five hours a week, our math has Ori at 2.4 weeks and Hollow Knight at 5.4. Pick by why you quit.

Games like Balatro hide very different finish lines. One takes about 3.5 weeks at 5 hours a week; here is how the rest compare.