Action Games That Officially Last More Than 100 Hours

When a game officially crosses the 100-hour mark, it stops being just entertainment and becomes a serious commitment. For fans of action games, these titles packed with non-stop fights, constant movement, and power-ups are so exciting that they can spend countless hours playing them.

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By Tristan Jurkovich

For an action game to last this long, it needs more than just a great main story. It requires a massive world to explore, complex systems for building up your character, and a truly endless supply of side missions. The games on this list have all managed this difficult balancing act. They deliver non-stop excitement while providing enough depth to keep players hooked for weeks.

This list focuses on the Completionist times for each of these action games.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Completionist Time: 192 Hours

The long playtime comes from deeply engaging with the world, including hunting, side missions, and building relationships within the gang.
Players live the life of an outlaw in a dying era.

For the action fan, Red Dead Redemption 2 offers a heavy, cinematic style of combat. Every gunfight feels deliberate, dangerous, and often relies on the player’s use of the Dead Eye slow-motion targeting system. It is satisfying to tag five enemies and watch Arthur Morgan blast them all with one trigger pull, but the gunfights only account for a fraction of the time needed. The massive 192-hour Completionist time comes from forcing the player to master every single mechanic outside of combat, too.

Players also have to track and hunt animals with precision. If the player uses the wrong rifle on a rabbit, the pelt is ruined, and they have to spend another hour searching for a perfect specimen. Then there are the Gambler challenges. These require the player to win multiple card games in a row using specific rules. This is pure luck, meaning hours are spent waiting for the right cards, not firing their six-shooter. Players also have to collect hundreds of things, like rare orchids and dinosaur bones, which often involves long, leisurely rides across the game's huge map.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Completionist Time: 150 Hours

Players command a Viking raider, building their homestead while exploring a massive map of Dark Age England.
Length is padded with many territories to conquer, secret collectibles, and long story arcs with mythical connections.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is all about Viking action. Combat is built around heavy hits, devastating finishers, and the fun of dual-wielding things like axes or even two massive shields. The player controls Eivor, who can leap into a fortress, start a massive siege, and smash foes in glorious, brutal fashion. The sheer number of these fights is why the playtime can easily explode past 150 hours.

The map is absolutely covered in little icons like Wealth, Mysteries, and Artifacts, and to get 100%, players have to visit and clear every single one. Many Wealth markers are guarded by soldiers, so players have to fight their way through these strongholds repeatedly just to get a piece of gear. The massive map combined with the need to fight through hundreds of small, medium, and large enemy camps keeps the action going for dozens of extra hours.

Diablo 4

Completionist Time: 190 Hours

This dark action-RPG focuses on continuous runs through dungeons.
Hundreds of hours are spent chasing high-level items and participating in massive world events and seasonal content.

This is the game for people who love the smell of burning demons, and who realize that finishing the story is just the beginning. In Diablo 4, players choose a class and spend their most of time mowing down hordes of monsters with different spells and attacks. The nearly 200-hour completion time is less about beating finite content and more about dedicating oneself to the infinite grind.

The biggest time commitment is the journey to Level 100. This requires players to repeat the same high-level dungeons several times, slowly filling up the massive Paragon Board for tiny stat increases. For the true Completionist, finding a rare Uber Unique item is the final hurdle, which can mean fighting the same boss several times, making the game a test of endless combat endurance.

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Completionist Time: 439 Hours

The core game involves tracking, fighting, and defeating enormous monsters to craft stronger weapons and armor.
The playtime skyrockets from needing to repeatedly hunt difficult monsters to collect the rarest materials for optimal gear.

There are long action games, and then there is Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. The main story alone can take over 100 hours, and that’s if you’re not new to the series. There are roughly 400 missions in the game, so it’s not surprising that players can spend almost 500 hours completing it.

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The completion time is so high because of two major factors: first, the G-Rank quests, which are the hardest missions, featuring monsters that hit harder and move faster. These fights can easily take 30 to 40 minutes a piece, and if a player fails, they lose all that time. Second, there's the crafting grind. To complete the weapon and armor lists, a player needs rare monster drops. Sometimes, the chance of getting a specific Ruby or Plate is less than 5%. Players are forced to repeat the difficult process of hunting the same dragon dozens of times, just hoping for a tiny but crucial item to drop.

Elden Ring

Completionist Time: 135 Hours

An expansive open-world fantasy game known for its challenging boss fights and rewarding exploration.
The time commitment stems from the difficulty, which demands multiple attempts on bosses, and the sheer scale of the optional areas on offer.

Elden Ring is a masterpiece of exploration and grueling action, taking Soulslike combat and putting it into a massive open world. The action is punishing but fair. Players have to manage a stamina bar for every attack and defensive move, making combat more of a dance than an all-out brawl. Players can be a heavy knight that blocks attacks with a shield, a samurai that bleeds enemies with a katana, or a mage that casts gravity spells from a distance.

The 135-hour completion time is largely due to the scale of the world and the difficulty of its bosses. To get the Platinum trophy, the player must defeat Shardbearer bosses hidden in corners of the map. The most famous example is Malenia, Blade of Miquella. Her Waterfowl Dance attack is a flurry of sword strikes that is incredibly hard to dodge. Many players spend 10 to 15 hours just learning how to beat this one boss, and will likely have spent 80 hours going through the rest of the game that leads up to her.

The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth

Completionist Time: 377 Hours

The countless hours are due to the massive number of items to unlock, and the multiple character paths required for full completion.
This is a fast-paced roguelite where every run is different, making the player battle through randomized floors and enemies.

Don’t be fooled by the graphics, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a frantic bullet-hell nightmare that requires fast-twitch reflexes. As a twin-stick shooter, players move Isaac with one stick and shoot tears (bullets) with the other. The action is fast and chaotic. The rooms are filled with flies, poop monsters, and floating heads that shoot blood lasers, and players have to dodge dozens of projectiles at once while trying to land hits of their own.

One of the reasons this game takes nearly 400 hours to complete is the vast character roster. There are many characters to play as, and each one changes the gameplay rules completely. In fact, some characters are designed to be unfair. "The Lost" dies if he gets hit once (without his Holy Mantle), while "The Keeper" struggles to heal. Meanwhile, players have to perform perfect runs against randomized bosses like Delirium, who teleports randomly and fills the screen with bullets, or Mom, who stomps down on the arena with her massive foot. Death means starting all over, making full completion something only die-hard ffans will pursue.

Yakuza 0

Completionist Time: 145 Hours

Wild street fighting in a detailed 1980s Japanese setting.
Players spend countless hours on the main narrative plus a host of strange side quests, mini-games, and two massive business simulators.

Yakuza 0 offers some of the best street-fighting action around. It allows players to switch between three different fighting styles: a fast style, a heavy style, and a style based on breakdancing. The action is sweet, but that's not what makes the game so long. Players trying to complete everything will have to take a break from fighting to engage in the incredibly deep side content.

Players have to master two massive mini-games, including running a Real Estate empire and managing a Cabaret Club. These take dozens of hours to do properly. There’s a lot of action here, too, as players have to fight the Five Billionaires and the Five Stars in tough boss battles to complete the business missions.

Rogue Legacy 2

Completionist Time: 112 Hours

A roguelite platformer where each death passes your collected upgrades to your next heir.
The length is a result of the permanent progression system, requiring many runs to fully power up your bloodline and explore the large castle.

Rogue Legacy 2 is an action platformer that requires quick, precise movement, but takes a lot of time to complete. Players use a sword, axe, or magic spell to attack, but they also have a spin-kick that allows them to bounce off enemies and projectiles. This creates a highly fluid combat style where the player is constantly moving, dodging, and attacking without touching the ground.

Players will spend a lot of time on Rogue Legacy 2 because of the requirement to play the game multiple times on increasingly difficult settings, known as Threads of Fate. The action gets significantly harder with each cycle, as players must defeat Prime bosses, who are basically tougher versions of the main bosses and have new attacks that fill the screen with projectiles. They also need to complete the Scars of Erebus, special challenge rooms that test the player's mastery of the movement and combat system to an extreme degree.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Completionist Time: 166 Hours

A massive JRPG that expands a classic story with expansive new areas and dozens of character side quests.
There's also a huge amount of optional content and minigames.

The massive 166-hour completion time comes from how much optional fighting is packed into Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. The world is split into giant regions, and each one has a list of things to do for the research assistant, Chadley. These are not simple fetch quests; rather, they are usually combat trials. Players have to find unique, tough monsters and beat them under specific rules, like only using magic, or finishing the fight within a time limit. This forces the player to constantly change their party setup and combat strategy.

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Nioh 2

Completionist Time: 105 Hours

A demanding action game set in a dark fantasy version of feudal Japan
The whole experience is focused on mastering fast, complex combat.

Nioh 2 is a lightning-fast action game that tests the player’s reflexes and discipline. A large chunk of time is not spent on exploring but on pushing the action to extreme difficulty. Once the main campaign is finished, players unlock New Game Plus modes, known as "Dreams," where they have to beat the entire game four more times, each time facing stronger enemies that hit harder and have new tricks.

The real test for any completionist is the Underworld. This is a massive, randomized dungeon deep beneath the surface, followed by the even harder Depths, where the player faces multiple bosses in a row in tiny arenas. This endgame content demands flawless execution of the game’s combat mechanics and anything less means a restart, which is why completing everything takes so long.