Dragon’s Dogma 2 Completion Guide – How Long it Takes To Beat

While journeying through the vast and dense kingdom of Vermund and Battahl, you’ll have your plate full in Dragon’s Dogma 2. From main quests to side activities to bosses, you’ll embark on your journey to seek out The Dragon and reclaim what’s yours.

In this open-world RPG, every nook and cranny can impact your journey. To explore it in its entirety, you’ll have to allot a good amount of hours to the game. Safe to say, it won’t be difficult for you to get completely immersed in it.

1. How long does it take to beat Dragon’s Dogma 2?

Dragon’s Dogma 2 takes approximately 30 to 35 hours to beat if players are focused on the campaign. However, to complete the game 100%, which includes doing all the side activities and exploring everything this game has to offer, it will take more than 110 hours to beat. 

This tracks as its predecessor, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, takes approximately 33 hours to beat and 110 hours to obtain 100% completion. With the map being four times larger, Dragon’s Dogma 2 is guaranteed to take much longer to complete. 

2. How to 100% complete Dragon’s Dogma 2?

To achieve 100% completion in Dragon’s Dogma 2, players are required to beat the main story and complete all side missions as well as obtain every trophy/achievement available in the game. There are 55 trophies or achievements in the game:

• The True Arisen (Platinum) – Collect all other Dragon’s Dogma 2 trophies
• Full Marks (Gold) – Found a solution to every conundrum posed by the goddess of riddles
• Master of the Maisters (Gold) – Acquired every maister’s teaching
• Closure (Silver) – Experienced the end of the cycle
• The Guardian (Silver) – Led the people to safety in the unmoored world
• The Hero (Silver) – Overcame the trials of the unmoored world
• An Eye for an Eye (Silver) – Petrified a medusa
• Getting a Head (Silver) – Acquired a preserved Medusa head
• Reaper’s Scorn (Silver) – Accomplished a miracle for several people all at once
• First Taste of Freedom (Bronze) – Escaped the bonds of slavery
• Arisen (Bronze) – Regained your memories of receiving the Arisen’s charge
• Seat of the Proxy (Bronze) – Arrived in Vernworth
• Across the Border (Bronze) – Passed through the gate at the border
• Dragon’s Dogma 2 (Bronze) – Witnessed the unmoored world
• Peace (Bronze) – Became Sovran of Vernworth
• I, Talos (Bronze) – Helped the gigantus walk again
• Versatile (Bronze) – Changed your vocation
• Duo Destinies (Bronze) – Changes your vocation to mystic spearhead
• Trickster of the Trade (Bronze) – Changed your vocation to trickster
• Arrows and Incantations (Bronze) – Changed your vocation to magick archer
• Jack of All Trades, Master of… All Trades (Bronze) – Changed your vocation warfarer
• An In-Tens Adventure (Bronze) – Went camping
• A House? In This Economy (Bronze) – Purchased a dwelling of your own
• One Speed Only (Bronze) – Boarded an oxcart
• The Savior (Bronze) – Used a Wakestone to restore the dead to life
• Just a Stone’s Thow Away (Bronze) – Used a Ferrystone
• A Badge of Honor (Bronze) – Acquired a pawn badge
• Gigantus, I Hardly Knew Ye (Bronze) – Defeated the gigantus in a short span of time
• Off with It’s Head (Bronze) – Decapitated a medusa
• The Specialist (Bronze) – Reached the maximum rank in a vocation
• A Pawn of Many Talents (Bronze) – Taught your pawn a specialization
• Wish upon the Rift (Bronze) – Set a pawn quest
• Myrmecoleon Delights (Bronze) – Entered the Rose Chateau
• The Collector (Bronze) – Collected 80 Seeker’s Tokens
• The Philanthropist (Bronze) – Earned the affection of 50 people
• Affinity and Beyond (Bronze) – Raised a person’s affinity to the maximum
• Dragon Forged (Bronze) – Strengthened a weapon in wyrmfire
• This’ll Cure What Ails Ye (Bronze) – Soaked in the hot spring
• Cyclops Abridged (Bronze) – Crossed a cyclopean bridge
• Harpy Joyride (Bronze) – Summoned a harpy, grabbed hold and took flight
• Quit Playing Dead (Bronze) – Revived two pawns simultaneously
• Dragon’s Dogma (Bronze) – Obtained Dragon’s Dogma
• The Barbecue-Maister (Bronze) – Grilled every type of meat during the night and day
• Nobles’ Night Out (Bronze) – Attended a palace masquerade in formal raiment
• Thought I’d Lost You (Bronze) – Restored the dead to life at a morgue or charnel house
• Before Dawn Breaks (Bronze) – Defeated the headless horseman
• The Tourist (Bronze) – Discovered 50 locations
• Are We There Yet (Bronze) – Boarded the phantom oxcart
• The Regriffining (Bronze) – Took flight on griffin wing a second time
• Back Where It All Began (Bronze) – Returned to Agamen Volcanic Island
• Plenty Arisen to Go Round (Bronze) – Witnessed a brawl break out in your dwelling among your admirers
• Roost of the Dragon (Bronze) –Reached Dragonsbreath Tower
• Hope You Brought a Lantern (Bronze) – Reached Drabnir’s Grotto
• To the Victor Go the Spoils (Bronze) – Reclaimed your items from the scavenger who stole them from you
• I’m In (Bronze) – Used illicit means to pass through the gate at the border

Some of these trophies are easily missable so be aware of that when you’re trophy hunting.

3. Does Dragon’s Dogma 2 have multiple endings?

Akin to its predecessor, Dragon’s Dogma 2 contains multiple endings that depend on the decisions taken by the players throughout the main campaign. Currently, there are three known endings to the game:

• Good Ending: Defeat the Dragon during the main quest ‘Legacy’ and accept the throne.
• Bad Ending: Choose to not face the Dragon and run away during the main quest ‘Legacy’.
• True Ending: Defeat the Dragon, speak to The Pathfinder, stab yourself with the Empowered Godsbane Blade, and escape the cycle.

Out of these three endings, the True Ending opens up new areas to explore, new quests, and side activities to complete, and new bosses to defeat. However, the catch is that you’ll be on a timer, and when it runs out, a red fog will eat up the map and force you to summon The Dragon to go back to the normal world.

4. How many main quests are there in Dragon’s Dogma 2?

There are 18 main quests to complete in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Here’s a full list of the main story quests in the game:

• Gaoled Awakening
• Tale’s Beginning 
• In Dragon’s Wake
• Seat of the Sovran
• Monster Culling
• Disa’s Plot
• The Caged Magistrate 
• An Unsettling Encounter
• The Stolen Throne
• The Arisen’s Shadow
• The Nameless Village
• Feast of Deception
• Nation of the Lambent Flame
• Flickering Shadows
• Convergence
• A New Godsway
• The Guardian Gigantus
• Legacy

Completing all the main story quests will roughly take around 30 hours, depending on how you progress through the game.

5. How many side quests are there in Dragon’s Dogma 2?

There are 40 known side quests in Dragon’s Dogma 2, with more being discovered daily. Here’s a list of all the ones that have been discovered:

I. Borderwatch Outpost

• The Provisioner’s Plight
• Ordeals of a New Recruit

II. Moonglow Garden

• Claw Them Into Shape
• Beren’s Final Lesson

III. Harve Village

• Scaly Invaders
• Trouble on the Cape

IV. Eini’s House

• Spellbound

V. Melve 

• Medicament Predicament
• Brothers Brave and Timid
• Nesting Troubles
• Readvent of Calamity
• Home Is Where the Hearth Is

VI. Venworth 

• Oxcart Courier
• Vocation Frustration
• A Place to Call Home
• The Heel of History
• The Gift of Giving
• Gift of the Bow
• Saint of the Slums
• Masked Correspondence
• A Trial of Archery
• Dulled Steel, Cold Forge
• A Veil of Gossamer Clouds
• The Phantom Oxcart
• Tensions on the Highroad
• A Case of Sculptor’s Block
• Till Death Do Us Part

VII. Bakbattahl

• Welcome to Battahl
• Shadowed Prayers
• A Poisonous Proposal
• Short-Sighted Ambition

VIII. Checkpoint Rest Town 

• The Sorcerer’s Appraisal
• Hunt for the Jadeite Orb
• Prey for the Pack
• Mercy among Thieves

IX. Ancient Battleground

• Tolled to Rest

X. Mountain Shrine

• A Game of Wits

XI. Agamen Volcanic Island

• Put a Spring in Thy Step
• The Sotted Sage
• A Candle in the Storm

That’s all you need to know about the completion for Dragon’s Dogma 2. For more completion guides, check out the link down below:

6. About Dragon’s Dogma 2

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a 2024 action role-playing video game developed and published by Capcom. The sequel to Dragon’s Dogma (2012), the game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on March 22, 2024. Upon release, it received positive reviews from critics. Gameplay Dragon’s Dogma 2 is an action role-playing game played from a third-person perspective.

The player takes on the role of a character called the “Arisen”, a hero marked by a dragon whom they must defeat. The player explores the world they live in, taking on quests, and fighting monsters, while being caught up in a geopolitical conflict between two kingdoms. To assist in this, the Arisen relies on allies called “Pawns”, non-playable characters who join the player’s party.

These characters are AI-controlled, but function like player-controlled avatars, able to assist in fights, provide information on enemies, and give guidance to active quests. Players can each create and customize their avatar and their own Pawn character with different genders, appearances, and race. In addition, players can recruit two additional Pawns that have been created by other players.