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playthrough

playthrough

3 5.0
A complete session of a video game from start to finish
  • noun
  • /ˈpleɪˌθru/
  • Jargon
translation icon : partida completa
  • After completing my first playthrough of the game, I discovered many hidden secrets I had missed.
  • the first playthrough

I don't know of anything really, apart from watching Harry Potter, Hogwarts Legacy playthrough videos on YouTube.

Examples

  • A Place of Infinite Beauty is designed for a single playthrough.

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  • His first playthrough took 10 hours, and mine took 74.

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  • I started playing this right after a playthrough of the first game.

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  • Definitely worth the playthrough, I would say it's the better of the two.

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  • Well, the first several levels, arguably the entire first playthrough, are pretty easy to begin with.

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  • And yet, I'm not finished with this new playthrough after 20 hours.

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  • I'll figure it out on one of my playthroughs, I'm sure.

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  • I'm actually exploring for the first time since my first playthrough because of it, and I'm finding a ton of things.

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  • His playthrough of NV was 10 hours (and his Skyrim playthrough was 7), but was he doing something wrong?

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  • I remember tearing through Halo 3 on Legendary in a single playthrough, yet Halo 4 was absolutely brutal at points.

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Synonyms

long-play
vsplaythrough
  • Jargon
6.8

A full recording of someone playing a video game from start to finish

is the neutral term for a complete session or recording from beginning to end

How Complete

playthrough
  • Jargon
3 5.0
session
663 2.5
run of play
  • Jargon
1 6.1
clip
526 1.9

Surface Forms

playthrough singular
playthroughs plural

Morphology

playthrough = play (transparent) = through + play

Common gaming compound meaning completing a game; components directly indicate 'playing from start to finish'. [Postprocessing: moved 'through' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Playthrough joins play ('play a game') and through ('to the end'), so it is like playing a game all the way through, often as one long session or recording. That's why a playthrough means a full game session or recorded run from start to finish.