How Long to Beat Blasphemous: 12–18 Hours + True Ending

Blasphemous takes most players 12 to 18 hours to finish the main story. Going for the true ending and full completion — all collectibles plus the DLC — pushes that to around 25 to 35 hours.

The reason for the gap is the true ending. The default ending is reachable on a normal run, but the better one is gated behind specific items and routes you can easily miss if you don't know to look.

How long to beat Blasphemous

Goal	Time
Main story (default ending)	12–18 hours
True ending	16–22 hours
Full completion + DLC	25–35 hours
Speed run	1–2 hours

The main story is the steady part. The true ending and the free DLC chapters are where the extra hours come from.

What affects your playtime

A few things move your number:

• The true ending requirements. Blasphemous doesn't tell you how to get its best ending. It involves a specific item, a side quest chain, and a route that's easy to walk past. Players going in blind often finish the default ending first, then spend extra hours hunting the true one.
• Boss difficulty. The bosses are the time-eaters. The first game has no dodge roll, so you rely on positioning and a backstep, and a wall boss can cost you many attempts before the pattern clicks.
• Exploration and backtracking. This is a Metroidvania, so new abilities open old areas. Completionists revisit the whole map for collectibles, hidden bosses, and the Mea Culpa upgrades.
• The DLC. Blasphemous received several free content updates that added bosses, areas, and the path to the definitive ending. Including all of it stretches the game well past the base story.

The big one is the true ending. Whether you go for it is the main fork between a 15-hour run and a 25-hour one.

Is it worth the time?

Yes, if its tone lands for you. Blasphemous has a distinctive look — heavy religious iconography, brutal pixel-art executions, a grim and specific world — that nothing else quite matches. The combat is methodical and the bosses are memorable.

The honest caveat: the first game's combat is stiffer than modern metroidvanias, and the lack of a dodge roll frustrates players used to faster movement. The cryptic true-ending requirements can also push you toward a guide, which not everyone enjoys. If you want fluid, forgiving action, this isn't it.

How it compares to similar games

If you're sizing Blasphemous against the games it sits next to:

• Hollow Knight is longer — roughly 25 to 30 hours for the main story — with a bigger map and more optional depth, though a similarly grim tone.
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps is shorter and far smoother, around 8 to 12 hours, trading Blasphemous's heavy combat for fast, flowing movement.
• Curse of the Dead Gods is in the same range for a first clear, around 8 to 12 hours, but it's a run-based roguelike rather than a single connected world.

Want to know if it's worth your time? Our is Blasphemous worth it verdict breaks down the combat, the cryptic quests, and who should buy. If you've already finished the original, Blasphemous 2 is slightly longer and fixes most of the friction from the first game.

Blasphemous sits in the middle of the Metroidvania length scale, with a tone and difficulty that are more demanding than most. If you want more picks with the same grim, methodical feel, our games like Blasphemous roundup has the full list.

If dark aesthetics and methodical metroidvania exploration are your thing, KUTO: The Lock of Time is worth watching. It's a time-bending Metroidvania where time powers are literally breaking the world — every ability you unlock is one more lock off the thing that ends everything. Wishlist it on Steam so you don't miss the launch.