Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Completion Guide – How Long it Takes to Beat it

Developer DON’T NOD’s recent title, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, is a haunting new adventure set in a New England Colony set in the year 1695. It follows the journey of two Banishers, Red and Antea, as they investigate a haunted community called New Eden.

Being a choice-based game, players will make various decisions that’ll have consequences. But it’ll also affect the game’s playtime. Luckily, there is an estimate, which will give players a clear idea of how long they’ll be spending in this haunting world.

1. How long does it take to beat Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden?

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden takes around 20-25 hours to complete for the main story. Doing both main and side missions will take around 25-30 hours, while a completionist run of the game will take around 30-40 hours on average.

Judging by the playtime, it’s a pretty meaty game. You can shorten your playtime by lowering difficulty or skipping dialogues, but we don’t recommend the latter. Take all the time you need to complete it, and make sure you don’t miss anything.

2. How to 100% complete Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden?

A completionist run of Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden means completing everything that the game has to offer and here’s everything players need to do to achieve that:

1. Complete the Main Story
2. Complete all Side Quests
3. Complete all Haunting Cases
4. Collect all Collectibles and complete all Open World Activities:
   1. Alters
   1. Shelters
   1. Haunted Grounds
   1. Cursed Chests
   1. Locked Chests
   1. Lost Chests
   1. Collectibles
   1. Soul Grabbers
   1. Equipment
5. Unlock all Trophies / Achievements

The game has a lot to do, so make sure you’re prepared for the completionist run. There are plenty of choice-based trophies in the game, so if you don’t pick all the right choices in your first playthrough, you can always run it back.

3. How hard is Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden?

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden offers five difficulties for players to choose:

1. Story
2. Easy
3. Normal
4. Hard
5. Very Hard

Story is the easiest difficulty, while Very Hard is the hardest, and each of them affects enemy health, damage, the number of decoctions earned, and the timing of exploration puzzles. We suggest starting with the Normal difficulty for a balanced experience.

If you think the difficulty you’ve chosen is too hard or too easy for you, you can change it by:

• Going to Settings
• Choosing Difficulty mode in the Gameplay Tab
• Using the directional arrows to change the difficulty
• Lastly saving the desired difficulty by pressing Square (Playstation) or X (Xbox)

4. How many endings does Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden have?

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden features four different endings for players depending on how well they respect the Banisher’s oath and how they solve the hauntings:

1. Ascend oath fulfilled
2. Ascend oath partially fulfilled
3. Resurrection oath fulfilled
4. Oath failed

Without getting into spoilers, the main choices that ultimately determine which ending you’ll get depend on whether you choose to either Banish or Blame the subject of every haunting. The game will keep testing you and will give you an outcome according to the actions you take.

5. All Main Missions List

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden features a total of 16 chapters following the journey of Red and Antea:

• New Eden Town
  • Landfall
  • Death to the Dead

• The Dark Woods
  • The Ends of the Earth
  • Hungry the Hunters
  • The Woodfolks
  • The Beast

• The Mire Marshes
  • Old Acquaintances
  • The Swamp Witch

• Mount Pleasant
  • Isolation
  • A Flame in the Dark

• The Harrows
  • Witchfinders
  • The Inkwell

• Return to the Mire Marshes & New Eden Town
  • Grief and Rancor
  • Love Finds A Way
  • Of Days Gone By
  • Homecoming

6. All Haunting Cases List

Haunting Cases are basically a type of side quest that involves a living settler being haunted by a dead person from their past and there are plenty of them:

• The Dark Woods
  • The Flesh is Weak
  • Hammer and Tongs
  • Prudence in All Things
  • A Picture of Health
  • Fortune Favors the Bold
  • Trade Secrets
  • The Apple Rots by the Tree

• Mount Pleasant
  • No Love Lost
  • The Stench from the Trench
  • Through a Glass Darkly

• The Harrows
  • A Hellbound Heart
  • Saints and Sinners
  • Misery Loves Company
  • Hanging Time
  • Germs of Discord

7. All Side Quests List

In addition to Haunting Cases, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden also feature some side quests:

1. Bible Studies
2. Distended Ties
3. Exorcism
4. Forge and Forgive
5. Iron Shortage
6. Missing Feathers
7. Peace of Mind
8. Spirit Unbounding
9. The Enemy Within
10. The Fugitive

8. About Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a third-person action role-playing game. In the game, the player assumes control of a pair of ghost hunters named Antea Duarte and Red mac Raith. The pair goes on a mission to investigate a small but haunted community named New Eden.

The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 13 February 2024. Upon release, it received generally positive reviews from critics.