The Biggest & Longest Switch Games Actually Worth Completing 

@1:02: @1:09: Disgaea 5 Complete @1:33: Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age @2:22 Sid Meier's Civilization VI @3:14: Factorio @4:00: Stardew Valley @4:41: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy @5:25: Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ @6:15: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III @6:52: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild @7:44: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition @8:47: @9:05: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 @9:59: Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society @10:45: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV @11:15: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 @12:13: @12:14: Motorsport Manager for Nintendo Switch @12:58: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim @13:28: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom @14:19: Persona 5 Royal @15:08: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Complete Edition) @16:08: SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays @16:47: Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate @17:49:

All three Xenoblades + Torna make the Switch worth it alone tbh. Years and years of playtime between them.

Octopath Traveller and Octopath Traveller 2 are enormous, and I highly recommend both.

My first playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom took me around 160 hours ... and I didn't even do the last sage. Game is ridiculously massive.

Monster Hunter GU is my perfect game because I can pick it up whenever I'm in the mood, do a quick hunt, then put it away for days, weeks, or months. There's no real story to remember, so it's easy to jump into whenever the mood hits.

The Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy plus all three DLC expansions is easily one of the best trilogies in gaming and EXTREMELY highly recommended. Seriously DON'T skip these!

My first playthrough of the original Xenoblade Chronicles was 100 hours long and remains possibly my favourite JRPG ever still

You should do Funnest & Short Switch games actually worth completing. Voting for Arzette and the Jewel of Faramore. (3 hours for any% and 4 to 5 hours for 100% without walkthrough)

I’m surprised not to see Fire Emblem Three Houses.

I spent something like 40 hours in chapter 3 of Xenoblade 3 alone, and now I'm horribly overlevelled. It's great.

A long game that's tons of fun but not worth completing is Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition

Chained Echoes, Triangle Strategy, the Octopath Traveler games, TWEWY + Neo TWEWY

I'm going to guess Dragon Quest XI is on here based on the music. I'm 70 hours in and still can't see the end.

oh my god. i played a lot of xenoblade chronicles X and chronicles 1. And only 2 and 3 are on this list. I will never be able to have a life outside of work again. It's never ending

Alex seems to be in great form!

Xenoblade Blade Chronicles 2 becomes really good around the 30 hour mark. Hang in there.

I got 1085 hours on Factorio, on Steam. Mods make for new experiences....

I personally ended up putting 450 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles 2. When you understand the battle system and dig into the end game content it's freaking fantastic.

Just like Luigi in the background, you could say these games have (sexy) Legs

I have to say my first playthrough of P5R was right about 120 hours.

Did somebody say Xenoblade? I see Mio, I clicked. Simple as that. ❤

I cant imagine diving into Trails with CS3 and CS4. As far as titles on Switch go, do Trails Through Daybreak or Trails From Zero first

Can we have indexes back or table of contents skip points please?

No Unicorn Overlord?!? 14:15 I'm an idiot, but same thing can be said to people who haven't played Unicorn Overlord.

I’ve been going through the Xenoblade series over the last year and boy, am I happy I did. Just completed 2 and Torna last month and now I’m resisting immediately diving into 3 and playing some shorter experiences in between.

XC 3: do it for dehydrated water cat girl finding water in wasteland. "Wa? Wa'ah? Wa'ah!!❤"

Xenoblade might be one of my top 3 favorite series ever.

I really enjoyed Zelda Tears but I would have to say that the Xeno trilogy on Switch was def my favorite by far. I beat 23 games and got back to Sparks of Hope which is easy over the last 6 years. sparks of Hope I did 15% in 2 days.

Why no Monster Hunter Rise? Its easily got the 2nd most content on the switch.

DQ11 and XC3 are huge games. Money well spent.

Played skyrim over 1000hrs in multiple playthroughs and multiple systems for more than a decade

- Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Persona 5 Royal My holy trinity of JRPGs on Switch.

Xenoblade 2 is simply a masterpiece. 3 is amazing, 1 laid the groundwork, but 2 is the true peak of the franchise. So so good

SMTV (the first version) took me over 120 hours to beat. I /just/ beat Tears of the Kingdom, doing 95% of what the game had to offer and I came in at 280 hours. Absolutely massive.

He really said that he hasnt completed Xenoblade Chronicles 3... stop posting videos and go finish peak my brother in christ

I just finished the marathon that was the Xenoblade trilogy and their DLC’s. Far out that took up my life far longer than it should’ve. Onto pikmin at the moment …but lord Xenoblade requires a lot of your time. I got Xenoblade X…but I need a break lol one day I’ll get around to playing that one.

Suprised dragon quest builder 2 wasn't on this list

DQ11, 89hrs? Hold my 🍺. I played the demo for 80 hrs while waiting for the game.

I'm late to the party for Civilization 6, as I only ended up convincing myself to buy it when it was on sale for $12.99 for the Anthology (the definitive edition) but hot damn, if I didn't spend 300+ hours on here already! It's just been a month too! It's exhaustingly addictive.

I played some of these games. They are much longer than those hours. For example I highly doubt that you can finish dragon quest under 90 hours in normal difficulty. I skipped most of the side quests and my time was way more longer than that. That 3rd act was completely unnecessary. For totk I did all dungeons, side quests apart from few like taking photo of everything, all shrines. I opened entire map. I did not even try to collect all korok seeds. I don't know whether I completed all armor sets, and schemas or not. It took 290 hours. For XC2 and XC3, they are around 160-180 hours. For XC2 I did not do most of the side quests. Just did some blade quests. For XC3 I did almost all side quests. Persona 5 Royal 180 hours, Witcher 3 Wild Hunt wilt all dlcs 200+ hours. Those hours given in the video are quite conservative tbh.

Factorio definitely easily can go for hundreds of hours. I easily lost 3 days not realizing it. They should rename the game to Cracktorio.

appreciate the xenoblade bgm

Trails into Reverie seems longer to me than cold steel 3 and 4. Was it not reviewed? Is the endgame considered completionist instead of extra?

I think I'm close to 300 hours on Xeno 3? Truly one of my favorite games of all time, and I've been gaming since the NES. I'm trying to not touch it for a decade so that when I return to it, it feels as fresh as it can be.

Take a shot everytime a youtuber highlights Dragon Quest XI's long title

Getting an S rank on every game mode of Tetris Effect Connected is a good chunk of hours, and online multiplayer is infinite fun. It's all connected!

About Dragon Quest 11S, if you do miss the retro graphics and random encounters, you can enable that, as it has a mode you can turn on to make the game more akin to older Dragon Quest games, pixelart graphics and random encounters and all.

Surprised Fire Emblem Three Houses isn't on the list. To get all the story you have to play it 4 times! I'm on my 3rd play through and don't even want to look at how many hours I've put in 😅

A "Look Around You" reference? Niche ha

I don’t know if this counts, but to get the entire story of fire emblem three houses you really need to play through every house at least once black Eagles you need to do either a second play through or just have a save halfway through that run but to get the entire story, I was it Around 400ish hrs

First of all Disgaea 5 is the absolute best, love that you included it. I’m 200 hours in to 5 and still loving the grind

Fire Emblem Three Houses 3 routes is 271+ hours. 4 routes is probably 300+ hours Rune Factory 4, just 1 playthrough is 150+ hours. I love it so much more than Stardew Valley or Harvest Moon or Story of Seasons

Hello there lovely Alex and all in Nintendo Life I really like there is Luigi from Super Mario 3D World with a long legs on the screen when i'm thinking about The BIGGEST and LONGEST Switch games actually worth completing are these AWESOME games: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild & Tears of the Kingdom, Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, 2 & 3 and Pokémon Legends Arceus I list this small because I wanted to list the Nintendo Switch Exclusive games I know there is a lot more, but there was games that came to my mind first defienitily Botw & Totk and all Xenobalde games that I have Botw and Totk and Xenoblade games only 2 so I need to buy 1 and 3 defienitily 3 because Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is one of the BIGGEST and BEST Nintendo Switch games of all time with even a dlc and it's sad 3 is the last Xenoblade Chronicles game I sould LOVE to see Nintendo make more Xenoblade this video would be so good because it's about the Switch games thank you Nintendo Life and happy last Gamescom 2024 day sunday everyone! 😊❤

I'm glad that you put twoTrails on this list. Now I can die happy XD

Nice shirt, Alex!

I was unemployed when TOTK came out and for the first couple days my online friends saw the number of hours and were intrigued "is it that good?", 2 weeks in my friends were concerned "did u sleep?"😂😂 I mean I played till I drop repeatedly so yea it's good😂😂

I rarely hear people talk about Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. It's a massive game, has Dark Souls kinda atmosphere. Has all the elements of an RPG and has one of the best gameplay mechanics imo. You could easily sink 80+ hours when completing the base game and it's DLC. 100+ hours when you're a completionist. 9/10 game for me.

Galleria the Moon society is sooooo good. I bought the physical when it launched and I absolutely love this game. (Come to think of it I have physical copies of almost all of these games.) I’m still on my first play through of Galleria but it’s definitely a banger.

Dragons dogma, fire emblem three houses just to add on as these two are my absolute favs

I'm 232 hours into "Tactics Ogre: Reborn" and I'm tecnically at 80% of the game's story mode

I love your first choice! Such a big fan of the game!

Glad to see Isaac getting some love.

My one playthrough of tears of the Kingdom clocks in at over 220 hours. I made sure to do pretty much everything possible that I discovered. That means dozens of side quests. All of the light Roots and shrines.

How is the Apollo justice trilogy so long? I adore the series, but I never thought the games were all that long. Also, every mention of Divinity Original Sin 2 should be accompanied with the fact that it's one of the few switch games that supports cross save with PC.

These long games are a main reason my backlog is so large. I’ve been playing Breath of the Wild since last December and I still haven’t finished. I might take a break when I finally finish and play some shorter games, then I’ll probably try out one of these.

Nintendo Life, I love your channel so much, I just had to subscribe!

I highly recommend getting The Binding of Isaac: Repentance it includes Rebirth, Afterbirth and Afterbirth+ expansions

Alex has superb taste in games

Xenoblade Chronicles X REPRESENT!!!

"Hello, and welcome to the middle of the film." -Nintendo Life and Monty Python

88 hours of Disgaea 5 sounds like you've got plenty to do beyond that. I love the game, currently on 140hr and still playing it. Most of my team at around level 1,000.

I'd personally argue that civ6 is incompletable especially with all of the dlc added. Also that seems low number for Skyrim.... Most players have easily added in well over 200 and are still playing it

Daybreak took me 130 something. It passed Xenoblade 3 in hours played.

Hollow Knight, Crosscode, Dead Cells, Slay the Spire, Celeste and so many other games are missing from this list. I have more than 100 hours in each of these. Sure, you don't need 100 hours to beat each of them, but it's very easy to pass that mark. For Hollow Knight specifically, if you ignore the pantheons, your first 100% should be around 40 hours. The pantheons add many hours tho, cause they are basically very hard challenges which take time.

I love your humor and energy!

Ok the end of that was genuinely funny 😂

Was thinking, “Omg how is Hades not on this list that game is AMAZING” and then realized that game probably takes way less time to complete for most people 😂 I played it for about 120 hours somehow though - there is so much content (especially if it takes a while to get good at combat like me I guess lol). But they included P5R which is my absolute fav, so can’t complain

You should also put Trails into Reverie and Trails Through Daybreak

Well actually Alex it’s pronounced Xenoblade Chronicles X (“Cross”) 🤓

A great list indeed, here are a couple more that might fit on the list too, though some will really chew up your time, you have been warned... : Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen, No Man Sky, Terraria, Minecraft, Dragon Quest Builders 2, Red Dead Redemption, Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age, SubNautica + SubNautica Below Zero, Dying Light Platinum Edition, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Nier Automata. Last time I checked, I must have sunk like a couple thousand hours into these games... which come to think of it, is quite scary...

1,000 hours on MHGU.

Any Disgaea game is so much worth it. They are the best SRPGs in that style out there. The gameplay is just on another level, trying any other feels clunky in comparison.

"It would be odd to discount 9s and 10s." I love your sense of humour Alex.

I have 950+ Hours in MHGU. It would have reached 1,000 if Rise came out a few months later.

3 Houses is very big. Either they have it a 7 or below, or they only counted 1 route for timing, but is still like 60+ hours for 1 route

I was kinda waiting to see No Man's Sky mentioned at the end. Not sure how long people stick with that game, but I'm definitely well beyond 100h, counting ps4, pc and recently the Switch. Good list, though. Will definitely save some of those suggestions.

God I wish we got that Twin Snakes boxart for NA\

Isn`t the title Dragon Quest XI Echoes of an Elusive Age S and that `S` there indicates a definitive edition? I thought this was the case.

I'd love to see the same concept but applied to the shortest games that are worth playing !

Didn't expect to see Gundam Cross Rays there.

I just completed P5R and was completely underwhelmed. It makes me worried about playing others on this list (Xenogears/DQ11/Trails) since they are also well reviewed and super long.

I think warframe should have been on the list you can get thousands of hour of play time and it’s free

I was real dissapointed to find out that Trails of cold steel 3&4 bundle pack was ps5 exclusive. If collections get a pass that one would have rocketed up the list. For the other collection on there with the ace attorney games, I end up playing those like reading a bedtime book. It's not several hour gaming sessions on weekends but more an hour or so before bed every night for 3 months until I get to the "certainly this must be the end" and accidentally play until 4 in the morning.

Currently playing Apollo Justice now! I picked the perfect year to become a huge Ace Attorney fan lol. Started with The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, then the OG trilogy and now Apollo Justice :)

Fun to watch! And because of watching this I'm now going to buy Xeno 3 👍😀🌞

SnowRunner: been playing it since mid-June for an hour and a half daily average playtime, sometimes 3-4 hours, maybe 4 days I took time off. I’m still in the first region (Michigan) and have advanced it 80%. But there’s many more regions… I dunno… 15 total with DLC (3 base game)… and I’ve yet to cross the 7% GLOBAL progress bar (I’ve got all the DLCs), plus there more DLCs coming and and there’s two other spin-offs and a successor has been announced (RoadWork)…. and, and, and … phew! Look it up and enjoy! Don’t get me started with No Man’s Sky….

If BOTW has an “ending” then Animal Crossing has one as well and should be included on the list like Stardew Valley. The story basically ends once K.K. Sliders starts touring the island. 😊

maybe im slow, but breath of the wild took me 160hrs and i did only like 20% of the game, im way past 200h on tears of the kingdom and still not in the end, 45hrs on xeno3 and I just liberated like 2 colonies (like 100 left still), i think these playtime hours are for people who doesn explore... the only one i agree is persona 5 im 120hrs in and im in the final boss fight

My BOTW playtime is around 300 to 400 hours and TOTK is around 500

92 hours civ6? What?