The longest Dungeons & Dragons games

Summary

• D&D games have varying completion times, with Chronicles of Mystara taking 19 hours to complete.
• Eye of the Beholder offers a 20 hour completion time with a classic dungeon master feel.
• Dark Alliance and Heroes takes approximately 28 hours to complete and provides a unique experience for D&D fans.

There are plenty of video games that use them Dungeons & Dragons IPs, and much like the campaigns they are based on, can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours to complete. It's not just how fun the game is that indicates quality, but also how much content there is to experience.

The website HowLongToBeat rates games in three ways; the main plot, the main story and some additions and completion. The following selections for longest D&D games are considered using Completionist game times. The main stories run about half as long on average, with the estimate for the main story and Extras varying depending on additional patches or DLC.

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7 Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

End: 19 hours

Chronicles of Myster is a compilation of two D&D games; Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara and Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doomand were originally arcade games before being released on PC and consoles. Both were originally released in the 1990s and retain a vintage look with the benefit of modern graphics to give the 2D view some interest and depth.

Both games are side-scrollers and include traditional D&D elements related to character selection and building. Players begin by choosing a fighter, cleric, elf, or dwarf. The Elf is a casting and thief class and the Dwarf is perfect for melee combat. In the first game, the party must save the land of Mystra from monsters and evil magic, and in the second, they proceed to the Tower of Doom to find and destroy the final boss.

6 Eye of the Beholder

Additional: 20 hours

• Developer: Westwood Associates
• Publishers: Strategic Simulations, Inc.
• Release date: 1991

Eye of the BeholderThe original version was in DOS on the Amiga computer, but in 1994 it was also released for Windows 98, Sega and Super Nintendo. Players familiar with the classic Dungeon Master will recognize the first-person dungeon view and panels that set this game apart from other CRPGs that use isometric angles.

The game is set in Waterdeep, and the adventurers have been hired to search for a magical force emanating evil from beneath the city. The plot is simple, focusing on a basic adventure that involves dungeon crawlers, mini-quests, and gifts or rewards for equipment and loot until the party finds and destroys Xanathar, the titular Beholder.

5 Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

Complementary: 28 hours

Not to be confused with Baldur's Gate games that also use the title “Dark Alliance”, this game is meant to allude to those older titles that take place in the popular Faerun city, but are completely independent of the plot and take place elsewhere. Icewind Dale is the backdrop Dark Allianceand the frigid climate adds an element of survivalism to the usual adventure module.

The Legend of Drizzt the novel series is also based in this area, which is partly why several characters from the story appear in the game, including the famous Drow himself. Players can venture into the cold wasteland alone and switch between available characters, or take part in a co-op adventure with 3 other friends.

4 Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes

Completion: 28.5 hours

• Developer: Atari Interactive Hunt Valley Studio
• Publisher: Atari Interactive
• Release date: September 16, 2003

Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes is only found on Xbox, which has somewhat limited its impact on the gaming world. Although it is a D&DA hack-and-slash game with RPG elements as opposed to an adaptation of a traditional tabletop campaign.

The player can fight the wizard Kaedin alone or recruit three friends to join their party. Character choices are based on pre-rolled options consisting of Dwarven Cleric, Elven Wizard, Half-Raven, and Human Warrior. Each of them has a story that makes the story personal on some level and has a unique ancestral weapon to help them destroy the evil wizard.

3 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance

Complementary: 42 hours

• Developer: Strategic simulations
• Publisher: Strategic simulations
• Release date: June 1988

Pool of Radiance was originally released as an MS-DOS game, and although it was also on the Mac and Amiga in 1990, the only console that ever carried a version of it was the NES console, which was released in 1992. A novel about Forgotten Realms with the same setting and plot, it was released in 1989 as part of the Publicity franchise.

There is a higher level of character customization in this title than in others of the same era, often giving players a choice of characters with already decided races and classes. Six races are offered along with four classes, but only non-humans are allowed to multiclass and moral alignment choice is mandatory.

2 Lords of Waterdeep

Complementary: 58 hours

• Developer: Playdeck
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
• Release date: November 21, 2013

Lords of Waterdeep transforms the tabletop module of the same name into a digital form and has both an offline version for solo play and an online version for traditional play with friends. Originally an Apple game, it is now available for Android and Windows and is a popular digital version of the D&D tabletop game on every platform.

The plot of this game isn't defined by a series of quests or an overall evil to defeat, but by which character best fills the role of the Masked Lord. This is Waterdeep's secretive ruling class, the merchants and politicians who control the port city, and victory is more about planning than fighting.

1 Dungeons & Dragons: Tactics

Completion: 59.5 hours

• Developer: Kuju entertainment
• Publisher: Atari
• Release date: August 14, 2007

At the heart of it are two dragons fighting for the prize of godhood D&D game, a tactical role-playing game limited to only one platform, the PlayStation Portable. The rules are firmly based on the 3.5 edition and it is a single player game where the main character can choose different companions to join them.

The game allows the player to choose between the usual 11 classes with two additions unique to this mod, Psion and Psychic Warrior. Those who would rather get into the game can browse a library of pre-rolled options that cover virtually every possible combination.