Elden Ring Sets Strange Record: Most Completed and Abandoned Game of 2022
Elden Ring is the most completed game of 2022 according to HowLongToBeat.com. At the same time, FromSoftware's work was also the most abandoned game of the last twelve months.
Oh, Elden Ring. It would seem that everything has already been said and written about the latest game by FromSoftware. Meanwhile, new tidbits appear from time to time, which completment the picture of the game's success. These certainly include the fact that Elden Ring is simultaneously the most completed and abandoned game of 2022..
This is the conclusion drawn by Kotaku when analyzing data from HowLongToBeat.com, a website which enables you to check, among other things, how long it takes to complete a given title. The data it contains is based on information provided by users who play particular games. In general, their number is so large that the average time generated from this data can be considered reliable. This prompted Microsoft to partner with the website, thanks to which game completion times are displayed in the Xbox PC application.
In the case of Elden Ring 54.5 hours is required to complete the main storyline alone. This data is an average drawn from the times declared by more than 5.5 thousand users of HowLongToBeat.com. Is that a lot for a new game? Yes. By comparison:
- Completion of God of War: Ragnarok was declared less than 2,000 Internet users (the availability of the title only on PS4 and PS5 must have played a role here);
- Dying Light 2 - less than 700 people;
- and the short Stray nearly 3.8 thousand.
However, as I mentioned earlier, Elden Ring also reigns supreme in another stat. It is simultaneously the most abandoned game of 2022. The discontinuation of the game was reported by 284 HowLongToBeat.com users. Does this number seem small? Nevertheless, it really is quite a lot - especially compared to the competition.
- God of War: Ragnarok was abandoned by only 13 Internet users who use the website;
- Dying Light 2 - 56 people;
- while Stray - 66 users HLTB.com.
One is left to ask whether these results may come as a surprise. First of all, it should be remembered that Elden Ring is FromSoftware's first work to achieve global success - 324 game of the year titles provide undeniable evidence to support this thesis.
Therefore, it can be assumed that many gamers who had no previous experience with the Japanese developer's games decided to check out its latest "child". Perhaps they were tempted by the popularity of the title, or perhaps by its relative affordability, about which much has been said. Most of them liked the game, and some did not - which, of course, was to be expected.
