A Plague Tale: Requiem will take 15-18 hours to complete

[bongowongo]

Kevin Pinson, the Lead Level Designer at Asobo Studio, says that Requiem will take most players between 15-18 hours to complete. That’s certainly not as long as many big-name titles on the market today, though it is a tad bit longer than Innocence, which took most gamers between 10-12 hours to finish.

“It’s about pacing,” Pinson said. “There’s no filler, there’s no trying to make it longer because we needed to. Our publisher Focus Interactive encourages us to do the length that we want to do for the game for the story we want to tell. So we’re not aiming for a specific amount of hours. This is not something that we take into account when we first design the game. We are a small team of 70 people so we have to be really drastic about our choices.”

Recently, Asobo revealed that a sequel wasn’t initially in the works. In an interview with PCGamesN, Pinson noted that the small dev team was shocked by the positive response to Innocence, thanking fans for inspiring them to flesh out the story in the upcoming title.

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Not sure how to feel about this. While I love linear and smaller games, 15-18 hours sounds like a lot for a game that doesn't really do "gameplay" so well or keep it so engaging. Plague 1's combat sections and especially the final act was really janky and a bit of a slog to get through. I hope that everything has been improved to the point where 15-18 hours is bearable and engaging enough. Plague Tale 1 was perfect in its length and pacing so hopefully this game is as well.

Hopefully there's more quiet moments / fun puzzles rather than the combat because that was never the focus of the game in the first place.

[Deathstroke]

It’s taken me much longer to complete the first one

Plenty of gameplay for me

[TokenV]

sounds plenty for me

I've been burned out on long ass games for a long time so I embrace the "shorter" games now lol

always checks howlongtobeat crew

also don't know exactly but to my feeling it took me well over 12 hours for the first one

[OneLegSquats]

Day 1 buy for me unless it's on PS5 gamepass. Otherwise I'll buy, complete it in a week then sell it. Looks like a huge step up graphically than the first one