How long is Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition?
Expect sink a day or two's worth of gameplay in Shadow of the Tomb Raider
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider is one of the new wave of Tomb Raider games published via Square Enix. The game launched back in 2018, becoming one of the popular games at its time. It remains true to this day, with gamers picking it up on sale or, more recently, getting it for free on the Epic Games Store.
With the rise of the game’s discount price or free giveaway status through EGS, many people research the game. People want to know if it’s a game with investing their time in. So, it leads to people asking questions, such as how long is Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The answer to that entirely depends on what you want from the game.
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How long is Shadow of the Tomb Raider?
You are looking to work out roughly three different ballparks how long Shadow of the Tomb Raider is. If you’re looking for a good story and only the story, you’re roughly looking at around 10-12 hours played for the average player. If you’re more familiar with Tomb Raider games, then you can get through it quicker. The speed at which you clear the game also depends on the difficulty settings you choose, as there are easy, normal, hard and deadly obsession difficulty options. There’s even modifiable combat, exploration and puzzle difficulty modifier.
Meanwhile, if you’re in the completionist bracket, looking to find all the collectables, or on an achievement hunt, it may take you longer. Perhaps even longer if you don’t look online for a YouTube or written guide on the game and find all the secrets and achievements organically. We expect these sorts of challenges can take anywhere between 20-30 hours to get through.
And then there’s the Definitive Edition. The Definitive Edition comes with the game’s season pass, which is now complete. There are seven different content expansions featuring The Path Home, Grand Caiman, Serpent’s Heart, Price of Survival, Nightmare, Pillar, and Forge. Playing through that will take even longer. Each of these DLCs adds a new tomb to get involved with. All in all, these DLCs should add an extra hour or two of gameplay for each DLC, adding 7-14 hours of bonus content.
