Indie Short RPGs - a comprehensive list

[Lord_Potato]

Most RPGs on the market offer a relatively long experience (compared to other genres, with the exception of strategy games). Recently I've been playing Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and I must say it is quite exhausting. After 75 hours, I am looking at the map and the list of DLCs and thinking that I've completed probably about 50% of the content. It is a beautiful but very bloated game. So a palate cleanser was badly needed. An RPG that would play differently but most importantly - was short and did not take me away from medieval England for too long (so that I did not forget what I was actually doing there). Searching for short RPGs, I started creating a list of such games and finally thought that I might as well share it with you. I want it to be as comprehensive as possible, so I added the RPGs I've already completed. Most of the info about the length of the game comes from How Long to Beat website, when it could not provide data, I based my estimations either on declarations from developers, commenters on Steam forums, or, if I managed to finish it, on my own memory. The list should only include games that allow you to beat the main story in less than 20 hours. If you have more titles to add, please let me know, and I'll amend the list. So, without further ado:

Short RPGs - a (hopefully) comprehensive list:

Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics
Main Story: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours

Age of Decadence
Main Story: 17 Hours
Main + Extra: 22 Hours
Completionist: 62 Hours

Age of Gladiators
Main: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours
Completionist: 47½ Hours

Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales
Main Story: 9 Hours

All Walls Must Fall
Main Story: 4½ Hours
Main + Extra: 6 Hours

Al-Quadim: the Genie’s Curse
Main Story: 11½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20 Hours

Alpha Protocol
Main Story: 13 Hours
Main + Extra: 17 Hours
Completionist: 25½ Hours

Aluna: Sentinel of the Shards
Main + Extra: 9½ Hours

Always Sometimes Monsters
Main Story: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 11½ Hours
Completionist: 12½ Hours

Amazing American Circus
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours
Completionist:25½

Amberstar
Main + Extra: 19 Hours
Completionist: 79½ Hours

Ancient Enemy
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 10½ Hours
Completionist:10½ Hours

Anima: Gate of Memories – The Nameless Chronicles
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 11½ Hours
Completionist: 16 Hours

Anno: Mutationem
Main Story: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 18 Hours

Another War
Main + Extra: 19 Hours

Ascension to the Throne
Main: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 16½ Hours
Completionist: 16½ Hours

Ashen
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 19½ Hours
Completionist: 27 Hours

Asterigos: Curse of the Stars
Main Story: 17 Hours
Main + Extra: 27 Hours
Completionist: 43½ Hours

Aztaka
Main: 9½ Hours
Main + Extra: 10 Hours
Completionist: 12 Hours

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours
Completionist: 19 Hours

Banner Saga 1
Main Story: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 27 Hours

Banner Saga 2
Main Story: 11½ Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 23 Hours

Banner Saga 3
Main Story: 9½ Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist:19½Hours

Banners of Ruin
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 26½ Hours

Bard’s Tale (2004)
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 26½ Hours

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
Main Story: 5 Hours
Main + Extra: 5½ Hours
Completionist: 7 Hours

Bastion
Main: 6 Hours
Main + Extra: 9 Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Battle Bionic Mutants
Main + Extra: 9 Hours

Battle Mages
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours

Bavarian Tale
Main + Extra: 10 Hours (estimated)

Biomutant
Main Story: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 24 Hours
Completionist: 43½ Hours

Bionic Dues
Main Story: 9½ Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 19 Hours

Blackguards 2
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 22½ Hours
Completionist: 22½ Hours

Black Home
Main Story: 3 Hours
Main + Extra: 3½ Hours
Completionist: 7 Hours

Black Legend
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 18 Hours

Bloody Spell
Main Story: 4½ Hours
Main + Extra: 11½ Hours
Completionist: 26 Hours

Blacktail
Main Story: 7½ Hours
Main + Extra: 15½ Hours
Completionist: 21½ Hours

Boiling Point
Main Story: 15 Hours
Completionist: 35 Hours

Bound by Flame
Main Story: 13 Hours
Main + Extra: 16½ Hours
Completionist: 21½ Hours

Breath of Death VII: the Beginning
Main Story: 5 Hours
Main + Extra: 6 Hours
Completionist: 7 Hours

Broken Lines
Main Story: 8½ Hours

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
Main Story: 11½ Hours
Main + Extra: 16½ Hours

Call of Cthulhu
Main Story: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 10 Hours
Completionist: 13 Hours

Call of Cthulhu: the Wasted Land
Main Story: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 17½ Hours
Completionist: 28½ Hours

Cat Quest
Main Story: 6 Hours
Main + Extra: 8 Hours
Completionist: 11 Hours

Cat Quest II
Main Story: 7½ Hours
Main + Extra: 10 Hours
Completionist: 13 Hours

Caves of Qud
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 60 Hours

Champions of Krynn
Main Story: 17 Hours
Main + Extra: 18 Hours
Completionist: 22½ Hours

Chernobylite
Main Story: 14 Hours
Main + Extra: 19 Hours
Completionist: 22½ Hours

Child of Light
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 13½1 Hours
Completionist: 15½ Hours

Children of Morta
Main: 14½ Hours
Main + Extra: 18½ Hours
Completionist: 27½ Hours

Chronos: Before the Ashes
Main: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 10 Hours
Completionist: 16 Hours

Citizen Sleeper
Main: 6 Hours
Main + Extra: 9 Hours
Completionist: 11 Hours

Citizens of Earth
Main: 14 Hours
Main + Extra: 23 Hours
Completionist: 33½ Hours

City of Chains
Main Story: 7½ Hours
Main + Extra: 14 Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Code of Princess
Main Story: 5½ Hours
Main + Extra: 9 Hours
Completionist: 15 Hours

Cold Zero – The Last Stand
Main Story: 12 Hours

Consortium
Main: 4½ Hours
Main + Extra: 6½ Hours
Completionist: 11 Hours

Cosmic Star Heroine
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 16½ Hours
Completionist: 17 Hours

Costume Quest
Main: 5½ Hours
Main + Extra: 6½ Hours
Completionist: 7½ Hours

Costume Quest 2
Main: 6½ Hours
Main + Extra: 7½ Hours
Completionist: 9½ Hours

Crusaders of Might and Magic
Main: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 24½ Hours

Crystals of Arborea
Main Story: 4 Hours
Main + Extra: 6 Hours
Completionist: 6 Hours

Cthulhu Saves Christmas
Main Story: 6 Hours
Main + Extra: 7 Hours
Completionist: 7½ Hours

Cthulhu Saves the World
Main Story: 7½ Hours
Main + Extra: 10½ Hours
Completionist: 12½ Hours

Curse of the Azure Bonds
Main Story: 19 Hours
Main + Extra: 21 Hours
Completionist: 30½ Hours

CyberMage: Darklight Awakening
Main Story: 14 Hours
Completionist: 19 Hours

Daeomonica
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 7½ Hours

Dark Devotion
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 17½ Hours
Completionist: 25½ Hours

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Main Story: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 17½ Hours

Dark (2013)
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 11½ Hours
Completionist: 11½ Hours

Darkstone
Main Story: 15½ Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours
Completionist: 17 Hours

Dark Quest
Main: 2 Hours
Main + Extra: 4 Hours
Completionist: 4½ Hours

Dark Quest 2
Main: 6 Hours
Main + Extra: 8 Hours
Completionist: 9½ Hours

Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager
Main: 15½ Hours
Main + Extra: 55½ Hours

Dead Age
Main: 19 Hours
Main + Extra: 19 Hours
Completionist: 58 Hours

Dead in Bermuda
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Death Knights of Krynn
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 18½ Hours

Decay of Logos
Main: 10½ Hours

Demonicon
Main: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 19½ Hours
Completionist: 44½ Hours

Demon’s Rise – Lords of Chaos
Main + Extra: 10 Hours

Demon’s Rise – War for the Deep
Main Story: 9½ Hours

Depths of Peril
Main: 5 Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours

Deus Ex: Invisible War
Main Story: 9½ Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 17½ Hours

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Main Story: 15½ Hours
Main + Extra: 30 Hours
Completionist: 50 Hours

Deus Ex: The Fall
Main Story: 4½ Hours
Main + Extra: 5½ Hours
Completionist: 7½ Hours

Dex
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 17 Hours

Diablo
Main Story: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 17½ Hours
Completionist: 30 Hours

Dink Smallwood
Main Story: 5 Hours
Main + Extra: 5 Hours
Completionist: 9½ Hours

Disgraced
Main Story: 5 Hours
Main + Extra: 5½ Hours
Completionist: 6 Hours

Dolmen
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Dragon View
Main Story: 10 Hours
Completionist: 12½ Hours

Driftmoon
Main: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 11 Hours
Completionist: 11½ Hours

Druidstone: Secret of the Menhir Forest
Main: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 21 Hours
Completionist: 26½ Hours

Dungeon Hack
Main Story: 5 Hours
Main + Extra: 8½ Hours

Dungeon Master
Main Story: 15½ Hours
Main + Extra: 23½ Hours
Completionist: 30 Hours

Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back
Main Story: 19 Hours
Main + Extra: 24 Hours

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep
Main Story: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 23 Hours

Dungeon Rats
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 17½ Hours
Completionist: 25½ Hours

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
Main: 2 Hours
Main + Extra: 4½ Hours
Completionist: 19 Hours

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
Main Story: 11½ Hours
Main + Extra: 19½ Hours
Completionist: 29½ Hours

Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 27 Hours
Completionist: 41 Hours

Eldest Souls
Main Story: 5 Hours
Main + Extra: 6 Hours
Completionist: 9½ Hours

Ember
Main Story: 19½ Hours

Enclave
Main: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 11½ Hours
Completionist: 16 Hours

Entomorph
Main + Extra: 10 Hours

Eschalon: Book 1
Main: 18½ Hours
Main + Extra: 22½ Hours
Completionist: 30½ Hours

Eschalon: Book 2
Main: 19 Hours
Main + Extra: 34½ Hours
Completionist: 55½ Hours

Eschalon: Book 3
Main: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 18 Hours

Everreach: Project Eden
Main: 4 Hours
Main + Extra: 5 Hours
Completionist: 6½ Hours

EYE: Divine Cybermancy
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours
Completionist: 45½ Hours

Eye of the Beholder
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Eye of the Beholder 2
Main Story: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 16½ Hours
Completionist: 22 Hours

Eye of the Beholder 3
Main Story: 10
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 24½ Hours

Fable Anniversary
Main: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours
Completionist: 32 Hours

Fable: the Lost Chapters
Main: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours
Completionist: 38 Hours

Faery: Legends of Avalon
Main Story: 5½ Hours
Main + Extra: 7½ Hours
Completionist: 9½ Hours

Faery Tale Adventure
Main Story: 11 Hours

Fallen: Makina and the City of Ruins
Main Story: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 8½ Hours
Completionist: 17 Hours

Fallout
Main Story: 16½ Hours
Main + Extra: 22½ Hours
Completionist: 32 Hours

Fallout: New California
Main Story: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 16½ Hours

Farewell to Dragons
Main: 15½ Hours
Main + Extra: 18½ Hours
Completionist: 25½ Hours

Fear Effect Sedna
Main: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 8 Hours
Completionist: 12

Fear & Hunger
Main Story: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 8½ Hours
Completionist: 40 Hours

Five: Guardians of David
Main Story: 17 Hours
Main + Extra: 17 Hours

Friends of Ringo Ishikawa
Main Story: 7½ Hours
Main + Extra: 11½ Hours
Completionist: 18½ Hours

FTL: Faster Than Light
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 29 Hours
Completionist: 125 hrs

Freedom Force
Main Story: 17½ Hours
Main + Extra: 22 Hours
Completionist: 26 hrs

Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich
Main Story: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours
Completionist: 34 Hours

Galaxy of Pen & Paper
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 15½ Hours
Completionist: 21½ Hours

Game of Thrones (2012)
Main Story: 19 Hours
Main + Extra: 25 Hours
Completionist: 29 Hours

Gamedec
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 14½ Hours
Completionist: 15½ Hours

Gateway to the Savage Frontier
Main + Extra: 10½ Hours
Completionist: 15 Hours

Get in the Car, Loser!
Main Story: 9½ Hours
Main + Extra: 11 Hours

Ghost of a Tale
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 14½ Hours
Completionist: 18½ Hours

Gorasul: Legacy of the Dragon
Completionist: 12½ Hours

Gorky 17
Main Story: 9½ Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 13½ Hours

Gotham Knights
Main Story: 16½ Hours
Main + Extra: 27½ Hours
Completionist: 45½ Hours

Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 12½ Hours
Completionist: 14½ Hours

Grotesque Tactics 2: Dungeons and Donuts
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 14½ Hours
Completionist: 16 Hours

Halfway
Main: 17 Hours
Main + Extra: 17½ Hours
Completionist: 18½ Hours

Hand of Fate
Main Story: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20 Hours
Completionist: 60 Hours

Hand of Merlin
Main: 5 Hours

Harbinger
Main Story: 10 Hours

Hard West
Main: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 22 Hours
Completionist: 29½ Hours

Hard West 2
Main: 18½ Hours
Main + Extra: 21 Hours
Completionist: 25½ Hours

Hellpoint
Main: 14 Hours
Completionist: 15 Hours

HellSign
Main: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours
Completionist: 32 Hours

Heroes of the Monkey Tavern
Main Story: 5 Hours
Main + Extra: 6½ Hours
Completionist: 9 Hours

Heroine's Quest: the Herald of Ragnarok
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 17 Hours

Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard
Main Story: 17½ Hours
Completionist: 18 Hours

Holy Avatar vs. Maidens of the Dead
Main + Extra: 5½ Hours
Completionist: 7 Hours

How to survive
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 32½ Hours

Immortal Planet
Main Story: 9½ Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 13½ Hours

Immortal Unchained
Main Story: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 21½ Hours
Completionist: 34½ Hours

Incubation: Time is Running Out
Main Story: 13 Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 20 Hours

Invisible, Inc.
Main Story: 7½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20 Hours
Completionist: 60½ Hours

I of the Dragon
Main Story: 19½ Hours
Main + Extra: 23 Hours
Completionist: 30 Hours

Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Main: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 15½ Hours

Iron Danger
Main: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 19 Hours
Completionist: 29 Hours

Jade Empire: Special Edition
Main: 15½ Hours
Main + Extra: 23 Hours
Completionist: 34½ Hours

Jagged Alliance Gold
Main: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 26 Hours
Completionist: 27½ Hours

Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf
Main Story: 14 Hours
Main + Extra: 18 Hours
Completionist: 27½ Hours

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rigns, Vol. I (1990)
Main Story: 14½ Hours
Main + Extra: 36 Hours

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rigns, Vol. II (1991)
Main + Extra: 18 Hours

Kim
Main + Extra: 6 Hours

Knights of Pen & Paper
Main Story: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 19½ Hours

Knights of Pen and Paper 2
Main Story: 8½ Hours
Main + Extra: 14½ Hours
Completionist: 27½ Hours

Krai Mira
Main Story: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 17 Hours
Completionist: 17 Hours

Kult: Heretic Kingdoms
Main Story: 18½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours
Completionist: 21½ Hours

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos
Main Story: 14½ Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 19 Hours

Lands of Lore III
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours

Legend: Hand of God
Main Story: 19 Hours
Main + Extra: 21 Hours

Legend of Grimrock
Main Story: 16½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20 Hours
Completionist: 29 Hours

Legends of Amberland
Main Story: 15½ Hours
Main + Extra: 17 Hours
Completionist: 17½ Hours

Lisa: the Painful
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 24½ Hours

Lords of the Fallen
Main: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 21½ Hours
Completionist: 43½ Hours

Lovecraft's Untold Stories
Main: 5½ Hours
Main + Extra: 21½ Hours

Mage’s Initiation: Reign of Elements
Main Story: 9 Hours

Mana Spark
Main Story: 8½ Hours
Main + Extra: 12 Hours
Completionist: 15½ Hours

Maneater
Main: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 10 Hours
Completionist: 12½ Hours

Mars: War Logs
Main Story: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 12½ Hours
Completionist: 18½ Hours

Mass Effect
Main Story: 17 Hours
Main + Extra: 29 Hours
Completionist: 43½ Hours

Mass Effect: Andromeda
Main Story: 18 Hours
Main + Extra: 63 Hours
Completionist: 93½ Hours

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
Main Story: 14½ Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 17 Hours

M.E.A.T.
Main: 14 Hours
Main + Extra: 24 Hours
Completionist: 45 Hours

Memories of a Vagabond
Main Story: 3 Hours
Main + Extra: 4 Hours
Completionist: 4½ Hours

Metal as Phuk
Main Story: 5 Hours
Completionist: 7½ Hours

Midnight Protocol
Main Story: 8½ Hours
Main + Extra: 23 Hours
Completionist: 30 Hours

Mistmare
Main + Extra: 17 Hours

Morbid: the Seven Acolytes
Main: 7½ Hours
Main + Extra: 8½ Hours
Completionist: 9½ Hours

Mortal Shell
Main: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 20 Hours

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Main Story: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 17½ Hours
Completionist: 23½ Hours

Mythos: the Beginning
Main + Extra: 8 Hours

Neo Scavenger
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 67½ Hours

Neuro Hunter
Completionist: 14 Hours

Niffelheim
Main: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 19 Hours
Completionist: 30

Nox
Main Story: 14 Hours
Main + Extra: 31 Hours
Completionist: 43½ Hours

Numen: Contest of Heroes
Main Story: 14 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 23½ Hours

Of Orcs and Men
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 14½ Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Olympus 2207:
Main + Extra: 19 Hours

Omega Syndrome
Main + Extra: 8½ Hours

Our Darker Purpose
Main Story: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 22 Hours
Completionist: 226 Hours

Outriders
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 36 Hours
Completionist: 62 Hours

Paper Sorcerer
Main: 14 Hours
Main + Extra: 18½ Hours
Completionist: 24 Hours

Pathway
Main: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 17 Hours
Completionist: 24 Hours

Pecaminosa
Main + Extra: 10 Hours (estimated)

Penny Arcade: Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1
Main: 6 Hours
Main + Extra: 6½ Hours
Completionist: 7 Hours

Penny Arcade: Precipice of Darkness, Episode 2
Main: 6½ Hours
Main + Extra: 7 Hours
Completionist: 8½ Hours

Penny Arcade: Precipice of Darkness, Episode 3
Main: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 10 Hours
Completionist: 12 Hours

Penny Arcade: Precipice of Darkness, Episode 4
Main: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 12 Hours
Completionist: 13 Hours

Pharaonic
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 12 Hours
Completionist: 14 Hours

Prey (2017)
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 27 Hours
Completionist: 43 Hours

Pyre
Main: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 14½ Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Quest for Glory: Shadow of Darkness
Main Story: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours

Quest for Infamy
Main Story: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 18 Hours

Rage of Mages
Main: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 16½ Hours

Rage of Mages II: Necromancer
Main: 14½ Hours
Main + Extra: 24 Hours

Ravenloft: Stone Prophet
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 16½ Hours

Ravenloft: Strahd’s Possession
Main Story: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 19½ Hours

Remnant: from the Ashes
Main Story: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours
Completionist: 54 Hours

Remnans of Isolation
Main Story: 4 Hours
Main + Extra: 4 Hours
Completionist: 6 Hours

Restricted Area
Main + Extra: 15 Hours

Revenant
Main Story: 13 Hours
Main + Extra: 21 Hours
Completionist: 23 Hours

Rise of the Argonauts
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 16 Hours

Roadwarden
Main Story: 11½ Hours
Main + Extra: 18½ Hours
Completionist: 31½ Hours

Sabotain: break the rules
Main + Extra: 10 Hours

Sacred 3
Main Story: 8½ Hours
Main + Extra: 9½ Hours
Completionist: 16½ Hours

Salt & Sanctuary
Main Story: 16½ Hours
Main + Extra: 21 Hours
Completionist: 29½ Hours

Saturday Morning RPG
Main Story: 4½ Hours
Main + Extra: 7½ Hours
Completionist: 15 Hours

Seven: the Days Long Gone
Main Story: 16 Hours
Main + Extra: 35½ Hours
Completionist: 77 Hours

Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms
Main Story: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours
Completionist: 31 Hours

Shadows over Loathing
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 22 Hours
Completionist: 29½ Hours

Shadowrun Returns
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 14 Hours
Completionist: 18 Hours

Shadow Vault:
Main + Extra: 20 Hours

Shattered - Tale of the Forgotten King
Main Story: 15½ Hours
Main + Extra: 23½ Hours
Completionist: 40 Hours

Silk
Main Story: 5 Hours

Silver
Main Story: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 13½ Hours

Silverfall
Main: 18½ Hours
Main + Extra: 23½ Hours

Silverfall: Earth Awakening
Main: 11½ Hours

Singularity: Tactics Arena
Main + Extra: 12 Hours (estimated)

Skyborn
Main Story: 8 Hours
Main + Extra: 10½ Hours
Completionist: 12 Hours

Skyhill
Main: 3 Hours
Main + Extra: 6 Hours
Completionist: 15 Hours

South Park: Fractured But Whole
Main Story: 18 Hours
Main + Extra: 22 Hours
Completionist: 27 Hours

South Park: The Stick of Truth
Main Story: 11½ Hours
Main + Extra: 14½ Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Space Siege
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 9½ Hours
Completionist: 11 Hours

Space Wreck
Main + Extra: 6 Hours

Star Control II: the Ur-Quan Masters
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 13½ Hours

Starflight
Main Story: 17 Hours
Main + Extra: 19½ Hours
Completionist: 30 Hours

Star Renegades
Main: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 18½ Hours
Completionist: 33½ Hours

Steelirising
Main Story: 14½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20½ Hours
Completionist: 25½ Hours

Stirring Abyss
Main Story: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours

Stonekeep
Main: 14½ Hours
Main + Extra: 31 Hours
Completionist: 37½ Hours

Storm of Spears
Main: 6½ Hours
Main + Extra: 8 Hours
Completionist: 9 Hours

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Main: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 18½ Hours
Completionist: 20 Hours

Suits: A Business RPG
Main: 3½ Hours
Main + Extra: 4½ Hours
Completionist: 5½ Hours

Sword of Vermillion
Main Story: 16½ Hours
Main + Extra: 17½ Hours
Completionist: 18 Hours

System Shock
Main Story: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours
Completionist: 16½ Hrs

System Shock 2
Main Story: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 18 Hours
Completionist: 22 Hours

Sword Legacy: Omen
Main: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 14 Hours

Tails of Iron
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 9 Hours
Completionist: 10 Hours

Tainted Grail: Conquest
Main Story: 13½ Hours
Main + Extra: 28 Hours
Completionist: 52 Hours

Teudogar and the Alliance with Rome
Main + Extra: 10 Hours (estimated)
Completionist: 15 Hours (estimated)

The Amber Throne
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 14 Hours
Completionist: 17½ Hours

The Ascent
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 18 Hours
Completionist: 26 Hours

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Main Story: 9 Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours
Completionist: 25 Hours

Theseus: Journey to Athens
Main + Extra: 6 Hours (estimated)

The Dark Queen of Krynn
Main: 16½ Hours
Main + Extra: 35 Hours
Completionist: 50 Hours

The Dwarf Run
Main + Extra: 11 Hours
Completionist: 18½ Hours

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
Main: 19 Hours
Main + Extra: 32 Hours
Completionist: 42½ Hours

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2
Main: 10½ Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours
Completionist: 39½ Hours

The Outer Worlds
Main Story: 13 Hours
Main + Extra: 26 Hours
Completionist: 38½ Hours

The Technomancer
Main: 19 Hours
Main + Extra: 28 Hours
Completionist: 45½ Hours

Throne of Darkness
Main Story: 16½ Hours
Completionist: 2½ Hours

Thymesia
Main Story: 6½ Hours
Main + Extra: 10 Hours
Completionist: 14 Hours

Titan Outpost
Main + Extra: 13 Hours

To the Moon
Main Story: 4 Hours
Main + Extra: 4½ Hours
Completionist: 4½ Hours

Transistor
Main: 6 Hours
Main + Extra: 8½ Hours
Completionist: 15½ Hours

Treasures of the Savage Frontier
Main + Extra: 14 Hours
Completionist: 23½ Hours

Ultima I
Main Story: 5½ Hours
Main + Extra: 8 Hours
Completionist: 8 Hours

Ultima II
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 11½ Hours
Completionist: 12½ Hours

Ultima III: Exodus
Main Story: 13 Hours
Main + Extra: 27½ Hours
Completionist: 55½ Hours

Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds
Main Story: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 29 Hours
Completionist: 39 Hours

Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams
Main Story: 18 Hours
Main + Extra: 19 Hours
Completionist: 34½ Hours

Undertale
Main Story: 6½ Hours
Main + Extra: 11 Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Unrest
Main Story: 3 Hours
Main + Extra: 4 Hours
Completionist: 5½ Hours

Vambrace: Cold Soul
Main: 7½ Hours
Main + Extra: 20 Hours
Completionist: 33½ Hours

Vampire: the Masquerade - Redemption
Main Story: 18½ Hours
Main + Extra: 22½ Hours
Completionist: 26 Hours

Vampire’s Fall: Origins
Main: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 20 Hours

Vampyr
Main: 16½ Hours
Main + Extra: 28½ Hours
Completionist: 41½ Hours

Vaporum
Main Story: 12½ Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Vaporum: Lockdown
Main Story: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 14½ Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

Venetica
Main: 19½ Hours
Main + Extra: 22 Hours
Completionist: 29 Hours

Victor Vran
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 22½ Hours
Completionist: 52½ Hours

Vigilantes
Main Story: 15 Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours

Vikings: Wolves of Midgard
Main: 17½ Hours
Main + Extra: 26 Hours
Completionist: 28 Hours

Warhammer: Chaosbane
Main: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 16 Hours
Completionist: 39 Hours

Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc
Main Story: 18½ Hours
Main + Extra: 19½ Hours
Completionist: 20 Hours

Warsaw
Main Story: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 15 Hours
Completionist: 20½ Hours

We Are the Dwarves
Main: 9½ Hours
Main + Extra: 9½ Hours
Completionist: 16½ Hours

Weird West
Main Story: 17½ Hours
Main + Extra: 24½ Hours
Completionist: 38½ Hours

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood
Main: 8½ Hours
Main + Extra: 10 Hours
Completionist: 12½ Hours

Westboro
Main: 5½ Hours
Main + Extra: 7 Hours

West of Loathing
Main: 7 Hours
Main + Extra: 12 Hours
Completionist: 19 Hours

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
Main Story: 16½ Hours
Main + Extra: 28½ Hours
Completionist: 51½ Hours

Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire
Main: 11 Hours
Main + Extra: 21 Hours

Yes, Your Grace
Main: 6 Hours
Main + Extra: 8½ Hours
Completionist: 13½ Hours

Zanzarah: the Hidden Portal
Main Story: 12 Hours
Main + Extra: 19½ Hours
Completionist: 45 Hours

Zenith
Main Story: 10 Hours
Main + Extra: 13 Hours
Completionist: 15½ Hours

 

[Bester]

So you have no taste receptors and will literally gob anything.
Some of those games aren't even RPGs.
And to call Fallout short...

This is a contender for the most retarded thread of the year in my book.

 

[Reinhardt]

short? like, only 40 hours?

 

[Lord_Potato]

So you have no taste receptors and will literally gob anything.
Some of those games aren't even RPGs.
And to call Fallout short...

This is a contender for the most retarded thread of the year in my book.

As I said: the list should only include games that allow you to beat the main story in less than 20 hours.

Fallout 1 can be completed in this time and without speedrunning. It simply is not a big game.

As for "what is an RPG" debate, I'd rather keep it in other threads. These games claim to be RPGs, so into the list they go.

 

[Lord_Potato]

short? like, only 40 hours?

The list should only include games that allow you to beat the main story in less than 20 hours.

 

[Kedar]

So you have no taste receptors and will literally gob anything.
Some of those games aren't even RPGs.
And to call Fallout short...

This is a contender for the most retarded thread of the year in my book.

This is a very funny post but also wrong and dumb.

 

[Deadyawn]

That website says Tyranny is about 20ish hours, but my memory tells me it was less than that.

 

[Lord_Potato]

That website says Tyranny is about 20ish hours, but my memory tells me it was less than that.

That's why I decided to use mostly data from HLTB - they provide averages for many different playstyles.

 

[Broseph]

You’re missing The Dwarf Run. I got 100% completion in 11 hours.

 

[Lord_Potato]

You’re missing The Dwarf Run. I got 100% completion in 11 hours.

Added, thanks!

 

[Abu Antar]

Those Demon's Rise numbers are absolutely off. It took me 30+ hours to beat the first one.

Breath of Death VII took me way less than 20hrs to beat.
Citizens of Earth took me around 16hrs to beat.
Costume Quest 2 around 9hrs.
Cthulhu Saves the World 10hrs.
Dead Age 11hrs.
Disgraced 10hrs.
Epic battle Fantasy 4
Fallout: New Vegas - I have one 8hr save, and one 18 hour save.
Fallout 4. I beat it in less than 20hrs during a Steam free weekend.
Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich.
Immortal Planet, less than 10hrs.
Penny Arcade 3 & 4 both at 10ish hours.
The Realms of Arkanias can easily be done in sub 20 hours.
Salt and sanctuary is around 20hrs. Shorter if you don't bother checking every nook and cranny.
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is way shorter than 20hrs.

 

[Bad Sector]

Those Demon's Rise numbers are absolutely off. It took me 30+ hours to beat the first one.

These are average of multiple people, some take more time others less.

Personally i find that i need around 150% (sometimes more) of the time i see in HLTB to finish a game, especially RPGs, mainly because i try to look at every corner, container, room, etc for stuff (this does not apply to seamless open world games because i get annoyed by all the filler - but then again i also rarely finish such games).

On the other hand whenever i watch a video by GmanLives and he mentions how long it took him to finish a game i have finished myself, it tends to be around a third to a half of what it took me.

 

[Abu Antar]

Those Demon's Rise numbers are absolutely off. It took me 30+ hours to beat the first one.

These are average of multiple people, some take more time others less.

Personally i find that i need around 150% (sometimes more) of the time i see in HLTB to finish a game, especially RPGs, mainly because i try to look at every corner, container, room, etc for stuff (this does not apply to seamless open world games because i get annoyed by all the filler - but then again i also rarely finish such games).

On the other hand whenever i watch a video by GmanLives and he mentions how long it took him to finish a game i have finished myself, it tends to be around a third to a half of what it took me.

Almost every other game differs from my game time by 0-5 hours.

Demon's Rise has a 22 hour difference.

But you are right.

 

[Butter]

Fallout: New Vegas - I have one 8hr save, and one 18 hour save.
Fallout 4. I beat it in less than 20hrs during a Steam free weekend.

All Bethesda games can be rushed through, but just about nobody is going to play them that way. Even with New Vegas, I reckon the average time for a first playthrough is 30+ hours.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Personally i find that i need around 150% (sometimes more) of the time i see in HLTB to finish a game, especially RPGs, mainly because i try to look at every corner, container, room, etc

I have similar experience.

For example, Expeditions: Rome has a HLTB score of:
Main: 40½ Hours
Main + Extra: 54½ Hours
Completionist: 57 Hours

Well, it took me 68½ hours to finish it, only obtaining 75% of achievements, so it was far from a completionist playthrough.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Those Demon's Rise numbers are absolutely off. It took me 30+ hours to beat the first one.

Breath of Death VII took me way less than 20hrs to beat.
Citizens of Earth took me around 16hrs to beat.
Costume Quest 2 around 9hrs.
Cthulhu Saves the World 10hrs.
Dead Age 11hrs.
Disgraced 10hrs.
Epic battle Fantasy 4
Fallout: New Vegas - I have one 8hr save, and one 18 hour save.
Fallout 4. I beat it in less than 20hrs during a Steam free weekend.
Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich.
Immortal Planet, less than 10hrs.
Penny Arcade 3 & 4 both at 10ish hours.
The Realms of Arkanias can easily be done in sub 20 hours.
Salt and sanctuary is around 20hrs. Shorter if you don't bother checking every nook and cranny.
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is way shorter than 20hrs.

Thanks for lots of suggestions, I added almost all of them (except for Epic Fantasy Battle, Fallouts and Arkanias - HLTB claimed they are longer and I'm trying to stick to those, though of course, individual player's experience may wary).

 

[Ysaye]

Paper Sorcerer.

 

[Silverfish]

While it's best avoided, if you stick to the critical path, Fallout 3 can easily be finished in an afternoon.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Fallout kinda requires you to go fast if you don't want the Super Mutant army to destroy the world. Learned that the hard way

 

[vota DC]

Dink Smallwood Is very short

 

[dumbuglyorc]

Fallout kinda requires you to go fast if you don't want the Super Mutant army to destroy the world. Learned that the hard way

But only with the version 1.0, or 1.1 tops. The Europeans never learned this, and that's why they have a war on their ass now.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Paper Sorcerer and Dink Smalldick added to the list!

 

[Disciple]

The first Ultima game is rather short.

 

[Lord_Potato]

The first Ultima game is rather short.

Added all the short Ultimas (I, II, III, Underworld II, both Worlds)

 

[Lord_Potato]

Added all the Van Helsings and Heretic Kingdoms, plus some more.