When you’re favorite game ends, it's difficult to know where to go next. While starting a whole new adventure is always a good option, sometimes you just want to stay in the same world with the same cast of characters you’ve come to know and love. Fortunately, thanks to expansive expansions and delightful DLC, there are a plethora of ways to continue your favorite games.

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Most games offer a short piece of story DLC that barely hits the three-hour mark. However, there is a handful of lengthy DLC that considerably adds to your overall playthrough. With experiences offering perilous encounters with all-new villains and expansions that add entirely new areas for you to explore, these DLCs are absolutely worth your time.

These games are presented in no particular order.

Updated October X, 2023 by Jacqueline Zalace: We've added a few more games with lengthy DLCs to this list, giving you tons of content. Additionally, we've included spec boxes for many of the games included, providing information on platforms, launch dates, and developers.

22 Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Monster Hunter World

Action RPG Released January 26, 2018 Developer(s) Capcom Platform(s) PS4, Xbox One, PC Powered by Expand Collapse

Monster Hunter World takes roughly fifty-odd hours to beat if you’re not dealing with any of the side content. It’s a beefy game filled with beefy monsters and even beefier swords. There’s a lot of beef. So, when an expansion was announced, players were correct in thinking it too would be a beefcake.

Fortunately, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne does not disappoint. In fact, it’s truly enormous. Featuring new locations, monsters, stories, and more, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne can take you anywhere between 35 and 120 hours to complete. For those just looking to spend hours fighting giant monsters and exploring gorgeous locations, then Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is for you.

21 Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

Monster Hunter Rise

Action RPG Released March 26, 2021 Developer(s) Capcom Platform(s) Switch, PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One Powered by Expand Collapse

While we’re on the topic of Monster Hunter, it feels pertinent to discuss Monster Hunter Rise. Just like Monster Hunter World, Rise takes players a very long time to see its end credits roll. There’s so much content packed into this phenomenal Nintendo Switch experience, that it has rightly deserved its title of being one of the best games on that platform.

For those who want even more monster-slaying greatness on the go Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak adds an enormous amount of content. This DLC features new locations, missions, monsters. However, it goes above and beyond adding follower quests and a slew of much-needed updates. For most players, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak will take around 30 hours to beat.

20 Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion

Splatoon 2

Third-Person Shooter Released July 21, 2017 Developer(s) Nintendo EPD Platform(s) Switch Powered by Expand Collapse

Splatoon 2’s single-player offering was fantastic at launch. It gave players a series of ingeniously designed levels centered around its core mechanic to blast through at their own pace. However, it was over before you knew it, and was in dire need of additional content. Fortunately, the Octo Expansion greatly expanded upon the single-player content with 80 new levels.

Filled to the brim with varied content, exciting set pieces and challenging bosses, the Octo Expansion really brought together the best elements of Splatoon 2. It expanded upon the lore considerably and featured more cutscenes than ever before. While not nearly as long as the Monster Hunter DLCs, Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion will take you roughly eight to 12 hours to beat.

19 Prey: Mooncrash

What makes Prey: Mooncrash such an incredible piece of DLC is just how different it is from the base game. Where the base game offers a detailed and engrossing immersive sim, Prey: Mooncrash instead gives players high-octane roguelike gameplay. While the setting and visuals remain mostly the same for the most part, these two games couldn’t be more different.

Prey: Mooncrash is also interesting for essentially being Deathloop before Deathloop was released. As both games were developed by the same studio, many feel that Prey: Mooncrash was the developers testing the waters to see if this time loop style gameplay could work. Coming in at around ten hours Prey: Mooncrash provides hours of entertainment.

18 The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion - Shivering Isles

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

RPG Released March 20, 2006 Developer(s) Bethesda Platform(s) PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Powered by Expand Collapse

The Elder Scrolls games have had their moments of strange fantasy. However, for the most part, their worlds, characters, and stories follow the tropes of high fantasy to a tee. Well, that is aside from Oblivion’s incredibly well-received piece of DLC, The Shivering Isles.

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This incredibly long piece of DLC sent the player off to a bizarre and colorful land wherein the Daedric Prince of Madness, Sheogorath, lies. The new world you get to explore is truly massive, around 25 percent of the size of the base game, taking you roughly 12 hours to beat.

17 Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - Fate Of Atlantis

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Action RPG Open-World Released October 15, 2018 Developer(s) Ubisoft Quebec Platform(s) PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, Stadia Powered by Expand Collapse

If you thought that the base Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey experience was missing an injection of the wonderfully bizarre Greek mythology, then its incredibly long piece of DLC, Fate of Atlantis, is absolutely for you. Featuring the Greek Gods, the Underworld, Elysium and of course, Atlantis, this DLC is packed with references to Greek mythology.

There’s a lot more to this DLC than initially meets the eye as it explores a considerable amount of Assassin’s Creed lore. The DLC is of course quite long; it comes in at around 15 hours across all three episodes, so you’ll definitely have a lot to sink your teeth into.

16 The Witcher 3: Blood And Wine

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

RPG Action Adventure Released May 19, 2015 Developer(s) CD Projekt Red Platform(s) Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S Powered by Expand Collapse

Blood and Wine is The Witcher 3’s critically acclaimed second and final expansion. It is by far one of the most ambitious DLCs ever created, offering an enormous experience on top of the base game’s staggeringly long main story. In Blood and Wine, you’ll get access to a whole new region called Toussaint as well as a 15 to 30 hour story.

Exploring a vibrant new region brimming with color and wine, you’ll get to meet a brand-new cast of characters, experience new gameplay mechanics, collect additional Gwent cards and fight new monsters. Its story captures the magic of the base game, offering an equal parts mysterious and thrilling narrative filled with the incredible writing the series is known for.

15 Dragon Age Inquisition: Jaws Of Hakkon

Dragon Age Inquisition is an incredibly long, ambitious, and fantastical game. It’ll take you anywhere between 50 to 90 hours to beat the main game, depending on how much of the side content you interact with, which is an already impressive amount. However, the game had three additional pieces of DLC, all of which combined would take you another 30 hours easily.

By far, the best of the bunch is Jaws of Hakkon. Filled with fearless warriors, a genuinely captivating story and one of the best regions in the game, Jaws of Hakkon expands on Dragon Age Inquisition in the best ways possible. For fans of the base game looking to lengthen their playthrough, this ten-hour DLC will offer you a satisfying Dragon Age experience.

14 Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna, The Golden Country

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

RPG Released December 1, 2017 Developer(s) Monolith Soft Platform(s) Switch Powered by Expand Collapse

It's rare for a JRPG to get such a massive story expansion, with very few of them ever receiving DLC beyond new costumes. However, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 got an enormous 18 to 25 hour-long expansion. Set hundreds of years before the base game, it explores a region of the world of Alrest that was previously mentioned but never seen.

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While the brand-new area is enormous, the DLC even takes you to locations featured in the base game that are significantly different due to the time difference. Suffice it to say, this is a phenomenal DLC that offers a captivating story that even those who haven’t played the base game can enjoy, as well as several regions that are incredibly exciting to explore.

13 Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Action RPG Released February 28, 2017 Developer(s) Guerrilla Games Platform(s) PS4, PC Powered by Expand Collapse

Like all good long DLC, Horizon Zero Dawn’s The Frozen Wilds adds a brand-new area, bosses, monsters, characters, and story for you to engage with. Exploring the Cut adds a whole new level of challenge to the game, and will test your skills in more ways than one. The new story brings a greater layer of depth to Aloy as well as expands on the lore and cultures featured within the base game.

With the masterful writing, plot, characters, and world of Horizon Zero Dawn to compete with, The Frozen Wilds had to condense those elements into a shorter experience. Fortunately, it succeeded, and it swiftly became one of the most memorable DLCs available. Averaging at around 12 hours, this will take you some time to complete, but it is absolutely worth it.