How many hours does it take to fully complete the longest RPG?

How to get close to this number

Anchor on the long games you know. This site's other playtime questions put major open-world titles at around 60 hours for a full run and around 175 for the most exhaustive. The longest mainstream role-playing games sit a clear step above that, which puts the answer in the high hundreds rather than the low ones.

What produces the extra length is systems rather than content. A game reaches these totals through grinding, crafting, optional dungeons and repeatable objectives — activities that consume time without consuming authored material. Completion time and amount of story are almost independent, which is why the longest games are rarely the ones with the most to say.

The economic framing in the explanation is worth taking seriously rather than treating as a joke. At a standard price, a game of this length costs a few cents an hour, which is cheaper per hour than any other entertainment medium — cheaper than books, films, streaming or live events. Whatever else is true about games, the value per hour is genuinely without parallel.