HowLongToBeat

HowLongToBeat is a game completion time database that tracks how long it takes to finish thousands of video games. Community-sourced data provides average completion times across multiple play styles including main story, main story plus extras, completionist, and all styles. The site is owned by IGN Entertainment (Ziff Davis) and does not publish an official public API; all programmatic access relies on community-built wrappers that query the website directly.

HowLongToBeat publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Games, Video Games, Game Completion Times, Game Database, and Community Data.

HowLongToBeat’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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19.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: howlongtobeat
name: HowLongToBeat
description: HowLongToBeat is a game completion time database that tracks how long it takes to finish thousands of video games.
  Community-sourced data provides average completion times across multiple play styles including main story, main story plus
  extras, completionist, and all styles. The site is owned by IGN Entertainment (Ziff Davis) and does not publish an official
  public API; all programmatic access relies on community-built wrappers that query the website directly.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/howlongtobeat.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/howlongtobeat/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Games
- Video Games
- Game Completion Times
- Game Database
- Community Data
apis:
- aid: howlongtobeat:howlongtobeat-api
  name: HowLongToBeat API
  description: Community-accessible interface to HowLongToBeat game completion time data. Provides search-by-game-name and
    game-detail lookups returning main story, main story plus extras, completionist, and all-styles average times in hours
    for thousands of video games. No official API key or authentication is required; access is via community wrappers that
    scrape or proxy the howlongtobeat.com website.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://howlongtobeat.com
  baseURL: https://howlongtobeat.com/api
  tags:
  - Games
  - Video Games
  - Game Completion Times
  - Game Database
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://howlongtobeat.com
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/howlongtobeat/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/howlongtobeat/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  contact:
  - FN: HowLongToBeat Support
    url: https://howlongtobeat.com
    email: ''
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/howlongtobeat-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://howlongtobeat.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://howlongtobeat.com
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/topics/howlongtobeat
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ign-entertainment
- type: Blog
  url: https://howlongtobeat.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://howlongtobeat.com
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://howlongtobeat.com
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/HowLongToBeat
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/howlongtobeat/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/howlongtobeat/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/howlongtobeat/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com