How long is Hillthorn?

A two-hour review and a one-hour guide can both be honest. One person is reading cards and backing out of dead ends. The other is following a route that already knows the manor arrows. gamehowto's own page holds both "about 2 hours" and "6 to 10 hours" for several endings, so even a single site refuses to be one clock.

HowLongToBeat had no submitted main-story time when I opened it. An empty box is not a zero-hour game. If you want the route those short guides assume, start at the walkthrough. If you want every ending, the ending order adds later cycles for the bear mask and the paradox.

Midnight resets objects. Knowledge, passwords, and shortcuts stay. Reviews call that loop the main reason a short mystery stretches: Loot Level Chill's 7/10 review names the repetition as the drawback. Five completed cycles is its own achievement, Running in Circles. I do not turn "five cycles" into a minute count.