How long is your PC game? The Windows Xbox app can tell you

The following time you go digging via your PC’s Xbox app for a recreation to play, chances are you’ll discover one thing fascinating: an estimate of how lengthy the sport will take to finish.

Microsoft has partnered with HowLongtoBeat to supply estimates of how lengthy it’s going to sometimes take a participant to finish every recreation. The estimate will seem on the backside of the display, offering a time (in hours) of how lengthy the principle recreation will take to finish, however any extra DLC content material. There’s even an estimate on how lengthy it’s going to take to finish every part within the recreation, also referred to as “100%” or “completionist,” which is what HowLongtoBeat makes use of.

To date, this characteristic seems to be solely a part of the Xbox app for the Home windows PC, moderately than the Xbox console.

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The Xbox app is Microsoft’s gateway into its gaming ecosystem for the PC, competing with Steam, Epic, GoG Galaxy, and different gaming libraries. It’s additionally the entry level for Sport Cross and Sport Cross Final, a month-to-month subscription that acts as a “Netflix for video games” by offering rotating entry to a big library of PC video games. (Although Microsoft costs $14.99 monthly for Sport Cross Final, there’s a trick to enroll in it that permits a implausible low cost.)

Microsoft additionally mentioned it had up to date the pace and reliability of the Xbox app itself.

“We’re dedicated to persevering with to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the app,” Jason Beaumont, companion director of product administration, participant experiences and platform, wrote in a weblog put up. “With the latest replace, the app now launches as much as 15 p.c sooner, and we’ve additionally made some fixes for total higher responsiveness while you work together with key experiences within the app. We’ve seen crash-free classes enhance to 99.9 p.c, and participant reviews of video games that didn’t obtain or didn’t set up efficiently diminished by practically half. We’ve additionally centered on elevated relevance for search outcomes, and getting outcomes again is now as much as 20 p.c sooner.”