How long are your gaming sessions usually?

[Seijuro]

So I have late shifts the whole week, get off at midnight (home office though) and am contemplating right now if I should do a quick 30 min gaming session after work, either Miles Morales or Blops CW.
I'd prefer a longer session of course, but during the day I have to look after our daughter. When I do 9-to-5 or on weekends I'll try to at least get a good 2 hours gaming time in. Feels long enough to make good progress in most games and also leaves time for other activities.
How long do your gaming sessions usually last?

 

[Tagyhag]

Generally 30 mins to an hour.

Maybe once a year I find a game I REALLY like and have the time to play it for 2-3 hours at a time.

 

[Cess007]

3 hrs tops most of the time. After that I start getting tired.

I can occasionally do some a 5hrs session if my friends and I get a lot into a new MP game. Or some SP game really catches my attention (rarely happens, with Yakuza, Souls-like being the usual suspects on this)

 

[dogbox]

Holy fuck like 10-30 minutes at a time. Nothing gets much time except the Switch these days. Would love a day to marathon some stuff though...

 

[Grettir_the_Swole]

WFH has done wonders for my backlog. While I typically spend about 1-1.5 hours after my commute, that entire time has been replaced by gaming.
I'm not going to lie, I hope my office just lets us stay home forever.

 

[huggyhomer]

I typically only play games when I stream and I like to stream from 3-5 hours most days.

 

[CloudsFromSpace]

Really depends on my mood and stress level

 

[Dest]

They used to be about 6-8 hours long. Now they're averaging around an hour or two.

 

[DeliciousSunnyD!]

Nowadays, it's probably close to 1 to 1.5 hours for me. I agree that 2 hours is a pretty solid gaming session, and pretty much anything beyond 2.5 is lengthy and too long for me. After two and a half I at least have to take a break for a bit, but it's most likely that after that I won't play any more games in a day.

When I was younger, I could probably do closer to 6, but I was never a person to go beyond that really. And 6 would have been my rare max.

 

[Anddo]

These days, 1-3 hours increments before I need to take a break.

 

[The Shape]

At week days maybe 3 hours.

At weekends sometimes anywhere from 6 to 16 hours a day if I feel like playing videogames the whole day (usually Sundays).

 

[Pankratous]

Weekday: 1-2 hours
Weekend: 3-5 hours

Teenager: 16-18 hours. God I miss that.

 

[J75]

Usually 30 mins to 1 hour.

Only ever done sessions longer than 2 hours on day 1 for games I have been looking forward too a lot which aren't many.

 

[Elven_Star]

30 minutes to an hour. These days, a couple of missions in RDR2, or one run in Hades.

 

[Xeonidus]

Weekdays when I have energy, it is 1-3 hours. 3-5 on weekends.

 

[Khanimus]

If I get to play more than 3 hours of a videogame in a sitting, it's a good fuckin day

 

[KOfLegend]

Used to be 5hrs+ whenever I was free before I developed VSS. After developing it, I can only last 3 hours or so before needing to take a break, and that's on a good day.

 

[M. Wallace]

Half hour to an hour a few times a day

 

[Liquidsnake]

Used to be 5 hours a day when Destiny 1 was at its peak. Now 30 min to 1 hour. Sometimes a game will grab me and I'll play longer sessions, like Valhalla had me for 3 hours at a time.

 

[The Lord of Cereal]

Anywhere from just a couple rounds of Halo/COD to around 3 hours. Very rarely do I play for more than 3 hours at a time

 

[Th3BranMan]

In high school, easily 6-10 hours.

Now as a full timer with a wife and child, I'm lucky to get up to 2 hours on weeknights, or early AM on weekends.

Thank God for Era.

 

[Fishook]

Usually 1-3 hours per game, then I have to rotate my game when I occasionally get to play longer. I struggle to play games when I have less than a hour to play and I cannot play before I go to bed due to them effecting my sleep especially if I am up early for work.

 

[Muitnorts]

Usually 1-3 hours. But new consoles and lockdowns have bumped that up quite a bit recently…

 

[Bandate]

30mins to an hour at most. Some good days on a weekend maybe 2 hours or so. I'm sure it'll change when we eventually have kids.

 

[Stat]

1 hour. Anything else I get bored / tired.

 

[oni-link]

Normally 1 to 3 hours

Always blows my mind when streamers play for like 10 hours in a row

After a few hours I want to do something else, being stuck having to play and entertain people for 10 hours in a row sounds like hell to me

 

[Necronomicon]

This year I think I played more than when I was a child.
Coronavirus took many things but gave me a lot of free time.

 

[LightKiosk]

1-3hrs is about my average. When I was younger I'd be able to go all day, but now I find myself getting worn out after hour 3 or so unless I'm really enjoying the game.

 

[Spiderman]

It depends on the game. When FIFA21 came out I played 19 hours straight :P.

 

[nanskee]

An hour and a half tops but usually about 30 min to 1 hour. I usually just get bored and stop

 

[ElephantShell]

If I can play for 2 hours I feel that's a good session in general..

 

[Deleted member 49319]

Two hours or I'll feel exhausted soon.

 

[Old School Gamer]

3 hours on work nights. 5-8 hours when I'm off.

 

[Greywaren]

Usually 1-2 hours. I tend to get tired after that, but I've had much longer sessions when I'm playing a game I'm enjoying a lot.

 

[Last Jon Standing]

From 11pm to 4am, every two days.

 

[shaneo632]

Usually 1-2 hours. I can't do 10 hours anymore. I need to do something else like work out or watch a movie or something.

 

[KORNdog]

4-6 hours these days. Sometimes less.

 

[turbobrick]

About 2 hours on average, but I only game maybe 3 days a week.

 

[Oaklight]

3-5 hours in the morning and night is my typical gaming session when I'm really into something. After a long game I will usually play far less to recharge my human batteries for a couple days or even weeks and then I'm right back at it with a new game.

 

[smart patrol]

Average play session is probably 2 hrs. Though I can do 6-8 hrs when one of those big "event" games come out and I can't stop playing (BOTW, RDR2, Cyberpunk soon).

The meme about reading ERA more than playing games is absolutely true.

 

[Snake Eater]

after 3 hours I get tired of playing

 

[Twonny]

Lately, it's been about 3-5 hours thanks to Like A Dragon.

Normally, it's between 1.5-2 hours with other games.

 

[Rosebud]

I only sit to play if I can stay for at least 2 hours.

 

[psynergyadept]

Usually 6-9 hours on my days off. When working maybe 1 or two hours of gacha games

 

[streepmeryl]

3 hrs tops most of the time. After that I start getting tired.

I can occasionally do some a 5hrs session if my friends and I get a lot into a new MP game. Or some SP game really catches my attention (rarely happens, with Yakuza, Souls-like being the usual suspects on this)

Click to shrink...

this
small bite sized sesh's help with pacing out games that interest me

 

[N.47H.4N]

Weekends 5-10hrs, daily 2-3 hrs

 

[GK86]

Usually I game for about 1.5-2 hours.

 

[chatsquared]

Usually an hour or so at a time unless there's a game I'm hyperfocusing on, in which case multiple hours will pass and I won't notice at all. A couple days ago I was shocked to see that I pumped 11 hours into Ghost of Tsushima over two sessions. I'm thankful that I work so early in the morning and can have these huge chunks of time during the middle of the day to myself.

 

[dude]

I'd like it to be more, but I can only get about 0.5-2 hours usually (depending on the game.) But then every once in a while I get into a Paradox strategy game or some super engrossing RPG and then time ceases to mean anything I suddenly have the free time to play like 3-4 hours at a time.

 

[Reddaye]

Depends on the game, and day of the week.

I try to get in an hour or two of COD or whatever MP game I'm playing currently through the week. Weekends I might play five or six hours a day, usually in sessions no longer than two hours at a time. MMOs, RPGs, or 4x games can be longer sessions if I lose track of time.

This morning I sat down at like 8am and lost myself in AC Valhalla for four or five hours straight before realizing how much time I had been sitting there.