There are quite a fewDragon Questgames. While the amount of spin-offs in the series might be daunting, you don’t need to worry about any of that unless you’re living in Japan. The mainline games on the other hand are much simpler to track.
12 games, and that’s it. No side stories, sequels, or anything of the like. Aside from some remakes, the series is quite simple to follow and easy to jump into. With that in mind, you probably want to know how much of a time investment you’re looking at, and we’re here to give you the answer.
How Long Does It Take To Beat The Main Story Of Each Dragon Quest Game?
Across the11 Dragon Quest games available internationally, you’re looking at a pretty significant time investment just to get through them all. However, the majority of them are not mind-numbingly long either, so feel free to take your time with each of them.
9
16.5
27.5
27
30.5
40.5
109
75
61
48
Dragon Quest 11 (and 11 S)
57/57.5
Since Dragon Quest 10 is both an MMO andexclusive to Japan, we’ve chosen not to include it.
On average, the games get longer as you go on until Dragon Quest 9 when they get a tad shorter again, though stillaround triple the length of the first few entries. Dragon Quest 7 is the obvious outlier here, being over30 hours longer than the next longest entry, Dragon Quest 8.
Keep in mind that these numbers arejust for beating the story. The average player will likely take longer than this on each game depending on how thorough they are.
How Long Does It Take To 100% Each Dragon Quest Game?
JRPGs, especially older ones, have a reputation for being very, very long. The Dragon Quest games, for the most part, don’t take exceptionally longer to see and do everything in than their main stories. Not short, by any means, thoughfar from inconceivably longeither.
11
18.5
33.5
42.5
48.5
66
297
128
114
742
122/131
Dragon Quest 9 has quite a bit ofonline-exclusive content that is no longer availableto play.
Looking at all those games, you’ve probably noticed some distinct outliers in terms of length -Dragon Quest 7 on the PS1, and Dragon Quest 9. Let’s discuss Dragon Quest 7 first.
Dragon Quest 7, despite only taking 109 hours to complete originally, takes297 to do everythingin. Why? Nice and simple grinding. There’s a lot to see and do and the vast majority of that comes fromthe depth of the class system. You’ll be spending a lot of time with this one.
Dragon Quest 9, on the other hand, is a staggering694 extra hours to 100% complete. That seems just silly, doesn’t it? It is, again, very grindy. There’s a lot to see, much of which islocked behind online play. As you can tell by the length discrepancy, the vast majority of this content is far from necessary for standard progression.
How Many Hours Is That In Total To Beat Every Dragon Quest Game?
With every single-player Dragon Quest game firmly examined, you should have a much better idea of how long each game would take you to play through. So for fun, let’s tally uphow long it would take to complete all of the games collectively.
Yes,half the length of the entire seriesis Dragon Quest 9.
There’s quite a wide margin there depending on which versions you choose to play and quite how much you complete, though you’ll beadding at least 100 extra hours on topto see the majority of content. Good luck with your Dragon Quest journey, it will take you quite some time.
