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Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined (DQ7)

Game Length: How Long to Beat

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How Long to Beat

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined (DQ7) can take between 40 and 50 hours to beat, depending on your speed and difficulty settings. Read on to see what contributes to the game's length and how to speed your progress!

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How Long to Beat Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined

Estimated 40 to 50 Hours to Complete Main Stories

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Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined presents a more streamlined version of the original Dragon Quest 7: Fragments of the Forgotten Past experience, and should take between 40 and 50 hours to clear the most critical story events.

By comparison, the original PlayStation game and its Nintendo 3DS remake were famously long RPGs, with average completion times exceeding 70-80 hours to start, before adding time for side content.

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Detailed Guidance Reduces Confusion

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Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined features a high level of guidance compared to the original games, with handy quest markers and the ability to consult with your party about the next steps needed.

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Difficulty Settings can Speed Progress

Normal and Hard Difficulty

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined can also smooth your progress through freely adjustable difficulty settings, allowing you to weaken enemies, do more damage, and improve battle rewards according to your preference.

These settings can reduce the amount of grinding you'll have to do to surpass the game's combat challenges and speed up your progress through the story.

Best Difficulty Settings and Differences

Around 70-80 Hours for a Completionist Run

Completionist Run Requirements
・Clear all Main Story Arcs.
・Collect all Stone Tablet Fragments.
・Master every Vocation.
・Defeat every monster on the monster list.
・Defeat all Menacing and Vicious enemies.
・Collect every Mini Medal.
・Collect all Items.
・Gather up a good amount of Gold (at least 300,000G).

A completionist run of Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined can take between 70 and 80 hours to accomplish, and will involve fully clearing all of the game's optional challenges and obtaining all its listed collectibles.

These should result in unlocking the game's Platinum Trophy on PlayStation and its equivalent Achievements on Xbox and PC.

Trophy Guide and Achievements List

8-10 Hours to Complete Demo

Demo End

The playable demo of Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined contains the first 8-10 hours of the main game, from the prologue in Pilchard Bay to the party's first adventure in Ballymolloy. This section can take between 8 to 10 hours to complete at an average play speed.

Playing the demo should give you a good taste of what the game has to offer, and can also unlock a free DLC costume fro Maribel!

Demo Guide: Demo Length and Features

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