How Long Does it Take to Beat Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Dragon Age: The Veilguard releases on October 31, with fans of the franchise the world over raring to delve into the latest BioWare action RPG. Of course, many fans may be curious how long it takes to beat Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

As a point of comparison, HowLongToBeat.com lists the run time for main+side content as 58 hours in Dragon Age: Origins, 37.5 hours for Dragon Age 2, and 87.5 hours for Dragon Age: Inquisition. In this way, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is most like Dragon Age: Origins, with my original playthrough taking 55 hours to beat.

How Long to Beat Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Explained

During my review of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, I beat the title three times and put in exactly 100 hours. There are some caveats to this, though. My first playthrough, where I watched every cutscene and completed the vast majority of its content, took me 55 hours to beat. My second playthrough, where I beat the vast majority of content once again but skipped cutscenes I had already seen, clocked in at 33 hours. Depending on how someone engages with the content, BioWare’s estimation that it takes 30-40 hours to beat the game feels plausible—although 50+ hours feels more realistic.

• Main+Most Side Content: 50-60 hours+
• Main + Some Side Content: 30-40 hours+

My third playthrough only took 12 hours to beat, but this comes with the huge caveat that I skipped everything but the main missions, including cutscenes. This is not how the game is designed to be played. It feels disingenuous to call anything in Dragon Age: The Veilguard “side content” because the story relies on everything players do, from main missions to companion quests and faction quests.

Skipping these drastically changes the gameplay and story experience of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. If someone just focuses on main missions and plays normally, players can still expect 20-25 hours.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s quest content can be crudely categorized into main missions dealing with the Blighted Elven Gods, companion quests that not only explore their stories but tie into the main quests, and faction quests that detail events surrounding the various allies and factions in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which also tie into the main story. The gameplay loop feeds into itself, so fans should be sure to accomplish as much of this as they can.

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Franchise

Dragon Age

Released

October 31, 2024

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Publisher(s)

Electronic Arts

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ // Blood, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence

Engine

Frostbite

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PC Release Date

October 31, 2024

PS5 Release Date

October 31, 2024

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Xbox Series X|S Release Date

October 31, 2024

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