Days Gone is a long game, and even just the campaign takes many hours to beat. While everyone has their own pace when playing a game, even the zippiest path through the game will eat up quite a bit of time. We’ll be taking a look at how many hours just the Days Gone campaign is. We’ll also be looking at how long to beat 100% of the content takes.
How many hours is the campaign in Days Gone?
There’s plenty of side content in Days Gone to soak up the hours, but the main story is where most of the meat is. The campaign takes you all across northwestern Oregon, and you’ll follow Deek’s adventure through three different regions. The large map means you’ll spend a lot of time on your bike traveling from place to place, not counting the traveling you’ll do during missions.
The game has six hours of cutscenes alone, and we clocked our time to clear just the Days Gone campaign at around 30 hours. This isn’t counting any of the side missions that are available in each camp or time spent clearing infestations, hordes, or seeking out collectibles.
How long does it take to beat Days Gone 100%
There are a large number of side activities you can do in Days Gone which adds a lot to your playtime. The majority of your hours spent will be tackling the campaign, but we estimate there are another 20 hours of supplemental content you can partake in.
If you want 100% completion, it will take you around 50-55 hours to beat Days Gone. This is under ideal circumstances going straight from point A to point B. Realistically, you’re looking at approximately 60 hours if you count in distractions, deaths, and other pitfalls.
There’s definitely enough to keep you busy for a long time whether you just want to see the story or complete everything.
Days Gone Zombie Innovations
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Days Gone's Zombie Waves and 10 other undead innovations
Upon the airing of its first E3 showcase, Days Gone picked up steam for one reason: zombie waves crashing against the ground, flowing as one solid mass of undead fury. While there have been lots of zombie games, the quality example atop the pile run with unique hooks that set them apart from the competition. Here are some examples. -
Dead Rising
A generation ago, just the sheer number of slow zombies in Dead Rising was enough to raise eyebrows. The fact that they existed as a barrier for Frank West rather than a real threat was also innovative. He couldn't stop the invasion, he could only hop on their heads and move around them. -
Left 4 Dead
The special zombies are what sets Left 4 Dead's horde apart from the others. From the explosive Boomer to the destructive Witch, these player-controllable mini-bosses created a new style of co-op fun that games like Vermintide 2 are still riffing on to this day. -
Plants vs. Zombies
Even though zombies are inherently representative of a lot of humanity's fears, that doesn't mean we can't laugh at them. Plants vs. Zombies cast the undead as a comedic obstacle to overcome, a kid-friendly strategy that has led to several successful spinoffs. -
Telltale's The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead is about using zombies as a metaphor in all its forms, and especially in Telltale's seasons-long story adaption. Acting as a looming threat throughout the saga, zombies here aren't the focus, they're just the cause for the chaos. -
Zombie Night Terror
Zombie games can be in any genre, even ones not typically prone to the type of violent gore that these characters generation. Zombie Night Terror is a puzzle game similar to Lemmings, only you're controlling undead walkers instead of cute green-haired creatures. -
Atom Zombie Smasher
Another strategic take on the undead is Atom Zombie Smasher, which is a top-down tactics game where you're trying to evacuate citizens from the map as the swarm closes in. With procedurally-generated cities and buildings that crumble, it's a realistic yet abstract take on surviving the apocalypse. -
Undead Horde
Sometimes, you just want to cause the apocalypse instead of surviving it. Undead Horde has you causing the end of the world by summoning zombies and overtaking villages in a medieval countryside. It's a zombie real-time strategy game if you will, although with fun material gathering. -
They Are Billions
Or, if you want to strategize on the other side of things, you get the ominously titled They Are Billions. It's another unstoppable horde, and you just have to hold them off with your building skills. It's like the circle in a battle royale, only with more teeth and claws. -
Stubbs The Zombie
Back to comedy, no game has successfully captured playing as the undead quite like Stubbs The Zombie. You rip your limbs off to perform moves, you feast on brains and you've got a retro vibe to revel in. Bowling for zombie heads anyone? -
Sunset Overdrive
Zombies don't even have to be the "undead." The zombie mutants from Sunset Overdrive turned due to a soda laced with unfortunate chemicals. It leads to some creative designs, showing that if zombies are here to stay, we can at least get some variety in.
