5 Shooter Games That Officially Last More Than 100 Hours

Shooter games come in all shapes and sizes across a range of different subgenres, each with their own gameplay loops, stories, and worlds around the action. While many people's first instinct may be to think of the faster matches seen in multiplayer shooter games, there are actually quite a lot of examples of much longer titles that can easily stretch into triple digits. This huge completion time comes from the amount of additional side content and hidden extras that can either take several hours to find in the first place, or even multiple playthroughs to fully unlock. The individual stories of these games may only take players a couple dozen hours to clear, but the time quickly ramps up as players start going for the completionist run that turns a 20-hour story into a 100-hour journey.

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Despite all having lengthy overall playtimes, many of these games differ quite a lot from one another in terms of gameplay and world-building. Some focus on RPG mechanics and player choices, others on raw shooter action, and a few strike a balance between several different focal points, ensuring a range of different objectives and goals to strive for while also offering a compelling gunplay loop at its core. Above all else, these games show that a shooter experience doesn't have to be fast and over in a flash; they can instead be a drawn-out adventure that players sink countless hours into without ever running out of things to do or see.

Cyberpunk 2077

The Density Of A Real-Life City

Completionist Time: 108 hours
Deep build and storyline diversity keep things interesting.

Cyberpunk 2077 already has a pretty lengthy story for players to grind through, but their single playthrough can quickly turn into several, sending their playtime far above the 100-hour mark. This comes from the sheer density of Night City, as every alley, building, and structure is filled to the brim with contracts and gigs that offer a ton of additional content for those willing to explore outside the main story. There is a big emphasis placed on organic discovery as well, where if players want to experience every last drop of the story and the wider context of the world, they will need to leave the main roads and dive into the dark underbelly that hides beneath the action.

Fully completing everything that Cyberpunk 2077 has to offer means engaging with every district, each offering its own micro-stories and mechanical challenges, and even playing through the story several times over to witness all possible endings. Because of how extensive the relationships and character arcs can get, it is common to see players work through the entire game and then jump straight into another run, choosing different dialogue options or focusing their attention on a new build to mix up the gameplay and the experience as a whole.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chornobyl

Slow-Burning Survival Tension Across A Vast Open Wasteland

Completionist Time: 131 hours
Branching narrative outcomes and gradual exploration that reward patience and planning.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Shadow of Chornobyl earns its lengthy completionist time by forcing players to slowly approach every encounter with patience and respect. The Zone is hostile and resistant to speedy progress, with survival mechanics that slow down exploration and demand preparation, even when players think they have mastered the world around them. On top of this, the quests often require long treks through dangerous territory, where mutants and hostile factions constantly interrupt the momentum, adding even more time to a second playthrough.

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The depth of the narrative also contributes to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's length, as players will find themselves building long-term faction relationships and following branching storylines that, in themselves, can take a considerable amount of time to complete. This refusal to rush the player ensures that no matter how hard they try, there is no way of rushing to the finish, which means that a lot more time is spent taking in their surroundings and appreciating the amount of additional content that exists within the world. Fully experiencing the Zone means exploring every minute detail and diving into the darkest corners of the world, no matter how brutal the enemies and the environment might get.

Destiny 2

Live-Service Can Never Truly End

Completionist Time: 193 hours
Gear-grinding and endgame content are constantly updated.

Destiny 2 is a particularly interesting case within the shooter space. While the base story only takes a few dozen hours to play through, the live-service nature of the game can very easily turn a short runtime into a monstrous one. Each expansion released brings a decent amount of additional missions, weapons, and even raids, giving players an incentive to come back time and time again to absorb the ever-evolving story. Also, because of how the loot system functions, single missions often require multiple playthroughs for the right gear to drop, and even then, there are so many different options available that players often keep grinding after they appear to be maxed out.

Towards the late-game, the gameplay loop changes entirely, becoming about chasing god-roll weapons and completing high-difficulty raids, both of which dramatically inflate the playtime. Even when content rotates out, new objectives replace it, ensuring that full completion remains a moving target that die-hard players are constantly striving to hit. This is why it is pretty common to see single save files reaching over 150 hours, without even factoring in the ability to compete against other players in fast-paced PvP matches. At its core, Destiny 2 is an MMO, and with that comes the promise of a content ocean that extends on for about as long as players are willing to explore it.

Borderlands 2

Looting Until The End Of Time

Completionist Time: 130 hours
Multiple playthrough tiers and DLC content make for almost endless content.

Borderlands 2 is considered by many to be the best game in the franchise, but review scores aside, it also stands as the series entry with the longest completion time. The 100-hour mark is easily surpassed through complete content overload, and despite a pretty modest-length main campaign, it is clear that the story is only the beginning. True completion requires multiple playthroughs, a full clearing of all available side quests, fighting countless raid bosses, completing DLC campaigns, and conquering Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, with every layer adding a new level of difficulty, and of course, plenty of new guns to take for a spin.

The looter-shooter structure in itself encourages repetition without fatiguing the player. Weapon variety and character builds constantly change, even in the middle of combat, and it can take countless hours to find the perfect setup, only for it to become obsolete a few sessions later. The final push for 100% completion requires a huge time investment from the player that seems borderline impossible at first, but the pursuit is easily worth it because of how well the game understands the addictive power of constant progression.

Fallout: New Vegas

Decisions Determine The Length

Completionist Time: 131 Hours
Individual choices can add dozens of hours to a playthrough.

Fallout: New Vegas strolls past many other open-world games in the genre because almost no outcome has one single way of being achieved. The apocalyptic environment is packed with branching storylines that can be approached from a variety of angles, ranging from aggression to diplomacy. The way different factions interact can vary wildly between playthroughs, giving players plenty of chances to relive the same story with a completely altered perspective. Completing everything requires managing multiple reputations perfectly and a much greater attention to the more obscure questlines, many of which are hidden far away from landmarks or signposted locations.

The RPG systems also dramatically extend playtime, as single skill checks and dialogue options can easily unlock entirely new adventures to follow, while also having the potential to lock them off forever. Because outcomes are never fully outlined from the start, it is pretty easy for players to make an avoidable mistake, leading to much larger and more devastating consequences down the line that can never be undone. Add four substantial story DLC expansions, each with its own mechanics and endings, and New Vegas becomes a game where full completion is less about efficiency and more about absorbing every detail about the world and the people within it.