Days Gone Will Have 6 Hours of Cutscenes

We have a little over a month until Days Gone finally releases. Now, we know a little more about the game’s campaign, specifically the hours of cutscenes we can expect to sit through.

Developed by SIE Bend Studio, Days Gone is a post-apocalyptic survival horror that follows protagonist Deacon St. John. Set in the ever-changing landscape of the Pacific Northwest, zombies known as “Freakers” roam the world, and the surviving humans like Deacon have learned to adapt, while trying to find reasons to keep living.

There has been a tight lid on Days Gone since its announcement at Sony’s E3 2016 conference. While the game was pushed back from its most-recent release date of February 2019, it’s suffered no major leaks in the last three years, and we have only seen a handful of trailers- both cinematic and gameplay.

Thanks to a recent interview with Denmark-based site GameReactor, we know that Days Gone will feature six hours of cutscenes, which is twenty percent of the game. Twenty percent cinematics and eighty percent gameplay strikes a good balance, and isn’t a surprise given the narrative-heavy games that Sony’s first party and indie developers have been making the last few years.

Of course the thirty hours will vary, depending on how slowly or quickly you move through the game, and because Days Gone is open world, SIE Bend Studio expects the game will take longer. Last year the developer said, “The golden path is going to take you about thirty hours, but it’s going to take you a lot longer than that because things are going to happen to you along the way depending on how careful you are and how much you pay attention.”

Days Gone will release exclusively for PlayStation 4 on April 26th.