9 100+ Hour Video Games You NEED To Play

1. Elden Ring

FromSoftware’s 2022 RPG masterwork Elden Ring is similar to Dragon Age: Inquisition in that you could mainline it in around 60 to 70 hours if you know where to go and don’t run into any skill issues, but you’re more than likely to spend a hell of a lot longer than that in The Lands Between. And honestly, why would you want to?

As we’ve come to expect from From, Elden Ring offers up a gothic macabre playground. If that playground was filled with the most nightmarish things your brain can’t even imagine that are all trying to kill you and mostly succeeding.

The game world is absolutely enormous, not to mention its hidden nooks and crannies, optional bosses, loads of systems that respect your intelligence to learn them at your own pace, and punishing yet satisfying combat encounters that often leave you on the back foot but never feeling like you can’t persevere. Elden Ring also has a map that keeps on giving with areas that unveil themselves over time and there’s plenty of different builds to play with, not that you’ll need to restart this one to get a good hundred hours out of it.

That’s without even mentioning the co-op, PvP, and amount of time you’ll spend insisting you can beat an enemy who’s way too tough because I absolutely refuse for that damn Tree Sentinel horse guy to get the better of me and I don’t care that I just started playing. Yes I will cheese him and shoot one thousand arrows from a ruin that only do 14 damage each.

It was to some fans dismay that the game is easier than most of From’s offerings but as a gateway into their trademark awe-inspiring worlds that lowers the barrier to entry, it’s a phenomenal experience.