How Long Is The Sinking City 2? Campaign Length & Completionist Time

Quick Answer

These figures come from the launch-window review consensus (34 critics, 79 Metascore) and early player reports; they’ll firm up as aggregate completion data accumulates.

What Changes Your Time

Unmarked navigation is the wildcard. The game doesn’t place objective markers, so time-to- beat varies more than usual: players who read environments quickly trend toward the low end, and there’s no shame in the alternative — our walkthrough and safe codes pages exist precisely to compress the stuck moments.

Side investigations add real hours. The eight optional cases are the game’s best content and roughly a third of a full run’s length. Skipping them saves time but skips the achievement list’s heart.

Combat difficulty barely moves the needle. Fights are short and scarce by design — lowering combat difficulty changes frustration, not duration.

Is It Short for $49.99?

The honest comparison: it’s in line with the first Sinking City and with narrative survival horror generally, but shorter than open-world detective games. Reviews (see our verdict) consistently frame the 10-hour core as dense rather than padded — whether that trade suits you is the real question, and the free demo answers it cheaply. New Game Plus adds a second, faster lap for the alternate endings.