How long is Pragmata?

Pragmata Hugh and the crew on a spaceship headed for the moon — (Image credit: Capcom)

How long is Pragmata? You can beat the story in under 15 hours as it isn't a very big game, featuring five large levels. Although, the main thing that's going to determine how long it takes to beat is the extent to which you engage with Pragmata's abundant resource collecting and gear upgrading mechanics. So, whether you stick to the main path or rummage through every nook and cranny, here are my estimations for how long it takes to beat Pragmata based on how long it took me and other members of the GamesRadar+ team.

How long does it take to beat Pragmata?

Pragmata Hugh and the crew and a humanoid robot clearing a path — (Image credit: Capcom)

You should expect Pragmata to take roughly 12 hours to complete, but your completion time will vary depending on how you play:

Critical path only: 9-10 hours
Main quest and exploration: 10-14 hours
100% completion: 16+ hours

If you keep exploration and resource-hunting to the absolute minimum across the game's five main sectors and play on easy difficulty, you might just get through Pragmata in 10 hours or under. However, that's not really the ideal way to play as you need to regularly spend your Pragmata resources on upgrading your weapons and abilities to match the power of the enemy robots. In fact, our Pragmata tips may help you be a bit more efficient with how you spend your time and resources.

That all means a bit of exploring is essential. You don't need to find every resource in every level to be appropriately powerful, but being reasonably thorough, backtracking a little, and going back to the Shelter to spend resources means you'll likely complete Pragmata in around 12 hours, give or take an hour or two - I completed the game in around 14 hours having been very thorough in every level.

But if you're after that 100% completion and want to gather every collectible, unlock every upgrade, and complete every training simulation, you'll be spending over 16 hours or more doing so, particularly with the Pragmata Unknown Signal post-game content to play through as part of this. You might even want to play the whole game again in Pragmata New Game+ or the hardest difficulty, all of which unlock after completing the game.

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