The descriptor “video game” covers a fairly huge umbrella of experiences, from a 4-hour jaunt by means of a horror marketing campaign to an extended, meandering journey by means of a fantasy realm. On Wednesday, Microsoft introduced a useful new instrument coming to the Xbox app on PC to assist with this actual drawback: It’s a characteristic that tells you, on common, how lengthy it takes to beat a recreation.

The announcement reads, partly: “We partnered with HowLongToBeat for a unique feature that makes it even easier to pick your next PC game — beginning today, you can view estimates for how long it will take you to complete a game in the game details pages for most PC Game Pass games.”

HowLongToBeat is a long-running group undertaking the place gamers can submit information on the period of time it took them to finish a recreation, whereas factoring in varied playstyles. For occasion, blasting by means of a recreation’s primary questline and beating the ultimate boss might take 20 hours in accordance with averages primarily based on gamers’ submissions; doing the entire aspect quests and unlocking optionally available paths can take 35, whereas taking part in the sport to 100% completion may take 50.

This is a pleasant quality-of-life characteristic to have, particularly since Xbox Game Pass has such an enormous library to sift by means of. Sometimes, you’re within the temper to settle in and feast on a 100+ hour RPG; different instances, you simply need one thing chill you can knock out over the course of a few evenings.

There are another modifications to the Xbox app on PC, together with simpler shopping and higher layouts for a person recreation’s web page. The newest replace additionally boosts the app’s efficiency and reliability, launching 15% sooner and lowering participant studies of failed downloads by almost half.