Is The Order: 1886 too short? "We're not going to comment," says developer

Ready at Dawn, developer of The Order: 1886, has said it won't comment directly on the length of the game.

The new PS4 exclusive is being criticised for lasting for less than six hours in total despite it being a full-priced release.

Speaking to Eurogamer, CEO of Ready at Dawn Ru Weerasuriya refused to clarify average playtime for the game, and said his team was not going to discuss length despite videos on YouTube showing the entire game completed in 5 hours and 30 minutes.

"At the end of the day, we're not going to comment on it," he said. "We can't stop people from writing the things they do. And we're not going to jump at every single mistake that is made out there.

"Every time somebody has the wrong impression of something we made, or somebody writes the wrong thing about what we did, it would be a full-time job to be like, oh no, that's not right. We make games. We do what we do for the players. And, ultimately, that's where I want to leave it."

Weerasuriya said he understood the concerns about value for money in the single-player game, but he believes the games business should offer diverse experiences.

"To tell you the truth, that's something we always keep in our heads. We know people want to be entertained and have things they can play longer.

"But the industry has always had diversity. You go back 10 years, there were a lot of games that were just single-player, one time play. There were some games that were single-player and you could jump back in and get more. That's what we did in our game. You can jump back and get other things out of it."

"Gameplay length for me is so relative to quality. It's just like a movie. Just because a movie is three hours long, it doesn't make it better," he added.