How long is a gaming session for you?

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Self explanatory. Mine last 20-40 minutes depending on what I'm doing in the game. How about you?

 

[bjork]

It honestly depends on the game and the day in question, so there's hard swings both ways. Like 20 minutes to 10 hours, I kinda play it by ear.

 

[UnDubious]

A full gaming session for me is usually an hour to an hour and a half if I'm into it. I don't like to sit down for too long, I get restless, which is ironic since I'm sitting most of the day. After that I need a little break.

 

[Rox00]

Really depends on the game that I'm playing like if it's a RPG then I usually try to make time for a longplay session (few hours or more and so on just focusing on the game), SRPGs being small sessions depending if it's like the final portion or just a general session, etc. Breaks will happen if it's going to be more than a few hours of the day though.

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

probably between like 3-4 hours. I don't like playing in small bursts. If I don't have that kind of time I just wait until I do. Occasionally I'll get locked into a game and play all day/night but it's pretty rare these days. That was more of a thing when I was younger. Regardless, I always make sure to get up every couple hours to keep the blood flowing.

 

[CG4R12I4N]

Depends.
At the shortest, 10 minutes.
At the longest, 14 hours nonstop only taking bathroom and drink breaks.

 

[diet_orange]

I think the longest I've ever done is about two/three hours? Depends on what I'm playing really and my level of enjoyment at the time

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

About 2-3 hours mostly during after dinner time if I’m not busy just to wind up a little before going to bed.

 

[Izzy]

5 hours if I'm streaming, 4 if recording

 

[Not_Red]

I usually play from 1-1.5 hours during weekdays. On weekends provided I have a small load of work to do it can go from 2-4 hours depending on how interesting the game I'm playing is.

 

[SlobodanElectro]

45 mins to 2 hours, 4 max. Fire up an emulator to play a retro platformer or shump or arcade. Good example as of late, fire up Hitman Contracts and play 1 to 3 levels or play DonPachi and last 10 men, about an hour, no more

 

[Stare best girl]

depends, if the day goes well, I go for 1-3 hours

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I rarely go beyond 4 hours. Usually, about an hour or two is good enough for me. If I’m truly in the zone with a game, I can easily go for longer, but that’s a signifier about how much I love a certain game.

 

[AkiraSO4]

Depends. My gaming streams are an average of 3 hours, maybe an extra hour depending of the time. Outside of it, it can be a simple matter of minutes testing something on practice mode, or maybe hours if I'm trying a game just to pass time.

 

[CocaFeca]

I like to play my games as chapters, when I know a game and enjoy it I tend to play the necessary to advance in the story wihout getting burnt out, for example nowadays i'm playing lego star wars the complete saga and I play 1 episode in a long session (1 and half hour for the prequels and maybe 2 to 2 and half for the original trilogy) same when i played a full world in plants vs zombies 2 or 2-3 worlds in a kingdom hearts game, wich usually translate to 2-3 hours, altough that's gonna change when I get a job, there's also the fact that there are games with a mission structure like red dead redemption or arkham origins, wich I usually do 3-7 in a row, wich translates to 1 and half to 2 hours, I also tend to just play while listening to a podcast, wich can sometimes wildly go from 30 minutes to 4 hours, altough this only happens if I have nothing to do, it happened the most with persona 3 and I've never even beaten it, got my ass since 2022 and it seems it still will until 2026

 

[DrunkGecko]

depends on the game and if im streaming

 

[Judgment System]

If I'm playing leisurely its usually 1-2 hours but on the rare occasion I'm playing a game to learn something or write about it I'm hitting 5-6 hours easily

 

[dropsmegamega]

It's like 1h max lately. Sucks because I like RPGs and you can barely start to feel these in only one hour.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

20 minutes but if people play for 14 hours straight then that's crazy.

 

[RomaniMajorasMask]

It can last from one hour, up to like 9-10 if I'm really enjoying myself. I lose time easily, so on free days, I can mentally vanish and go all in.

 

[KeySpirits]

The bare minimum is 2 hours, which could range from jumping from game to game or dedicating the time fully to just one. That's on weekdays, on weekends I prefer to pour all day into some hard-as-nails oldshool game until I beat it. Right now I'm preparing my netherparts for Dracula X... Last weekend I came really close to the last stage...

 

[Oddless]

as long as I can get away with lol, usually 10+ hours during weekends and 1-2 hours during weekdays (4-5 if I screw up my sleep schedule and wake up at 3 am)
honestly I cant stand the idea of not being able to play for more than 40 minutes

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

30 minutes at most these days.

 

[nobitakun]

I am impressed reading people play less than an hour. I would want to specify, do not count mobages, only real PC or console games.

A game session for me can't last less than 2h, because if I start playing something I want to feel I do actual progress within the game. The maximum duration has been shortened the older I got. When I was a teenager it could last the whole night, now I can't play more than 7-8h. But I've got good habits since I was a kid, even playing a lot of hours, I stand up, walk around the house, rest my eyes from screen, stretch my body and drink or take something at least during 5-10 minutes every hour. Same when working.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Depends on the game and how long to set up but I like to say 45min to 2hrs which is why it's so hard to commit to a game for me now since I can't do less than 30min unless it's a Fire Emblem map.