Game Maps Size Comparison with evidence (160 Maps)

[@HowBigistheMap]

I hope you like it. It took 2 full days to make it perfect and of course it took more hours of walking, running, driving, swimming, crouching and crawling across all these maps. Thanks for all the support. And if you disagree with the list, please give me feedback. I always reply. 0:00 Introduction 2:28 Biggest Maps Top 160 16:34 The Number One 18:10 About Guild Wars Nightfall 18:56 How I made this Top 160 Music that's playing while showing the number 1 at 16:34 is made by How Big is the Map.

[@HydroActive]

I have a new one for you, but it came out in 2018 you can pick it up on allkeyshop super cheap too. It is called Boundless on Steam and Playstation. And I have a feeling it would fall in between Minecraft and No Man's Sky.

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@HydroActive Yeah, I have that game in my long long list. It's from 2018. Maybe one day I'll do that one. Thanks for the tip.

[@mancamiatipoola]

Who else watched this video just to see those 160 games?? I laughed my ass off when you bumped into people or were attacked by random enemies. How did you deal with that? Did you stop your timer when you were fighting? Great video mate. GG!

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@mancamiatipoola Thank you!! No, I don't stop the timer when I'm in a fight. But there aren't that many fights in my videos. When you walk a straight line like I do, you miss a lot :)

[@Darskul]

@@HowBigistheMap I don't mean to be rude but do you not feel that it can extend the time in that case? I saw you get attacked in Dragon's Dogma and in a game like that it's a bit hard to get away from confrontations while walking in comparison to other games.

[@laksh_ayy]

This guy is seriously underrated and cracked in the brain to do these things.

[@HowBigistheMap]

An insanely underrated channel

[@laksh_ayy]

@@HowBigistheMap Yup, i suppose that's what it is. Keep doing this man, one day you'll get what you deserve.

[@mancamiatipoola]

The "cracked in the brain" line really CRACKED me up. XD

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@laksh_ayy Thanks Lakshay, I'll keep doing what I'm doing :)

[@r3dbullbbs]

Underrated youtuber!! Love the dedication and the content

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@ogulcanzorlu]

You are one of a kind.

[@joseluismendez2501]

What i don speak english

[@rocketrooster2410]

The only channel that really apreciates the work put into the Games settings

[@dorukstar7377]

Nobody: The guy who walked for tens of hours in a fu*king game: *I AM THE PATİENCE*

[@Aaronreacher]

The incarnation of patience

[@Nakilon]

This is the "channel I didn't know I need".

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks Nakilon!

[@hyper6500]

Such dedication! Hopefully this gets the views it rightfully deserves.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Would be great. Thanks!!

[@Doc.O.K.]

You sir are a shining beacon of perseverance, patience and hard work. Respect

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thank you very much!

[@doicaretho6851]

Commenting for exposure. I've been subbed a long time, you deserve way more subs my man

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thank you! I'm just curious: do you remember what the first video was you watched on this channel?

[@doicaretho6851]

@@HowBigistheMap I think it was the Daggerfall series. I remember really wanting to play the game, and being surprised how big the map was when I saw your videos. Since then, I've liked seeing how big maps are, especially from your channel.

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@doicaretho6851 Thanks for letting me know. Ah yes, Daggerfall. I wish there was another game like that so I can have that same experience. It was an awesome challenge.

[@El_Presidente_5337]

Oh, my lad still makes videos and he even talks now. How nice :) When watching a map comparison video recently I noticed that the Spiderman New York is supposedly smaller than GTA IV even thou there are a lot more streets in the Spiderman game.

[@HowBigistheMap]

I don't know yet. I still have to do some Spiderman games.

[@harmonyqueue]

Seriously, you deserve this to precede any other video on this topic.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks Josh!

[@mancamiatipoola]

And now it's his channel preview video. Tnx Peter!

[@Blake4014]

So many games, many Ive never played or seen, brought 2 games based on this video, thanks man. dedication. So many crappy old games too!! you've got serious patience!

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks!!! Glad to hear that!

[@WhizzarD44]

Vanaf de eerste seconde weet ik dat je Nederlands bent. Het is zo'n specifiek accent. Je spreekt perfect engels, maar het is onmiskenbaar. Wat een leuk thema heb je op je kanaal! Heel origineel. Ik ga al je filmpjes kijken.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Dat is een enorm compliment voor mij: "Je spreekt perfect Engels". Dank je!! Ja, Nederlanders herkennen hun landgenoten meteen als ze Engels spreken. Leuk dat je wat filmpjes gaat bekijken!! Thanks!!

[@SMABSYSTEMS]

Eyyy echt episch ;P

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@SMABSYSTEMS Dank je, Smab!

[@smallpotato667]

3:47 for a sec, i thought it was oblivion😅

[@HowBigistheMap]

Haha. Yes, Two Worlds looked a lot like Oblivion. That same castle in the center of the map.

[@Nakilon]

@@HowBigistheMap btw, I didn't notice Oblivion in the list.

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@Nakilon It's there somewhere. I walk on a narrow wooden bridge in that part.

[@samfisher5106]

@@Nakilon 6:24 There there

[@AlextheguitarFreak]

As someone who finds games with huge maps to be the most interesting I truly appreciate this video. I always wondered how long it would take to drive from one corner to the other in fuel, and I'm now even more impressed by hunter call of the wild, all the maps are the same size in that game and I believe there are a total of eleven maps at the moment. As for no man's sky well I'm impressed that you walked around even one planet as I truly thought that would take far more time than what you put on screen. It's one of, if not my favorite game(s)

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks for this awesome comment! Yeah, that guy from Hello Games told us that planets would be as big as real planets, but that wasn't true :) Great game though.

[@travisstewart182]

Now this is what I call dedication Awesome video

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks!!

[@ADcrackerjack]

Really appreciated the dedication behind this video. Thank you.

[@HowBigistheMap]

You're welcome.

[@tidepodeater9368]

Damn, I been subbed to this channel since you said you might do something for charity with walking so about 3~ years. Nice to see you growing. I would never have the patience to do something like this

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks for being a sub for so long!

[@marinfrombratia]

between 2013 and 2018 I made a passion for trying to measure gaming maps using various methods. Here are the maps that I managed to measure with good accuracy. GTA V: 52.5 km2( plus or minus 4 km) GTA San Andreas: 35 km2 Skyrim: 35 km2 GTA: IV 18 km2 RDR 1: 25km2 RDR 2: 60 km2 ( but big parts of the map you can't access both at the edges and even in the middle of the map.) Real playable area of RDR 2 is more like 42 km2. Watch dogs 1: 25 km2 Gta vice city 9km2( but if you take a way the water between the islands and the huge beach, the map is around 5.5 km) Gta 3 6km2

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks for the information! Looks accurate. I still have to do RDR1 by the way.

[@marinfrombratia]

@@HowBigistheMap There are many maps that the devs/people claim to be a lot bigger than they actually are. For example the witcher 3 is said to be 136 km2 when in reality is nowhere near that. I did not measured the witcher 3 wild hunt maps with accuracy, but I measured good enough to be able to say that it's AT MOST 60 km2

[@nykrev]

My man you’ll go down in history

[@juanitoalcachofa7896]

Great video my Man.... Keep the good job

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thank you!

[@arifefekoktas6162]

I didn't know I had to watch something like this before I watched this.

[@TheRebelTitan55]

3:59 Stormtrooper: FOR THE EMPIREEE!! 8:52 That's crawling, not walking 9:43 That's crouching, not walking

[@HowBigistheMap]

Oh no, one mistake in this video already! I crawled there, that's true!! You're very observant! :)

[@TheRebelTitan55]

@@HowBigistheMap *2 mistakes

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@TheRebelTitan55 NOOOOOOOO!!!!! I had to double check the video before I uploaded it!! I'm always so impatient!!!

[@jonathanpilcher337]

@@HowBigistheMap don't you dare say you're impatient 😭

[@a7818k]

one of your few videos I've watched whole.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thank you, (you mean, you didn't watch the whole Daggerfall journey??)

[@Lazar4ee]

Another great video. Try Elite Dangerous driving on a planet (small, medium, large). Also, there will be a major update this year, so we will be able to walk too.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Yeah, the update Odyssey. I'm waiting for that one :)

[@mancamiatipoola]

The man who took Dustin Hoffman's line "HEY! Im walking here!" and made a whole YT channel inspired by it (you should see the movie Midnight Cowboy, its really good). You sir are a very patient and dedicated man. I salute you. I probably (most definitely) don;t have the patience to watch your videos, i just came here after seeing one of your comments in a AC Black Flag video and thought i would say hi. So... HI! I did a similar thing with a friend of mine in WOW when we were chasing the "Elder" achievement. Basically you had to go in every zone in WOW and say hi to the Elder in that zone during the Lunar event. So we mounted up in Winterspring and we rode across 3 continents looking for the elders. We finished somewhere in the east part of Northrend (it was during WOTLK). That was an epic journey me and my frend did and one of my best adventures from WOW. TY for doing this and GODSPEED!

[@HowBigistheMap]

Hi!!! Thanks for the kind words!!! It made my day!

[@Acrosstheunivers33]

instant like for u lord

[@HowBigistheMap]

Very kind, thank you!

[@KoiGaming]

I seriously hope you had some fun music in the background that's a lot of slow walking! But at least you got to take in the sights

[@HowBigistheMap]

I listen to the sounds of the game tbh. To really get into the game world.

[@tonyfisher6379]

You’re a mad man. Lol. Thank you for this 🔥🔥🔥

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks Tony!

[@paulsletten8985]

Nobody asked but you knocked this out of the park, my boi

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks man!

[@danj1101]

Games where the large map is actually to scale (or near enough) with actual distances are underrated. Maps like AC Odyssey or Skyrim are basically so abstracted they might as well be old-school JRPG "world maps" with how off the scale us compared to something like KC: Deliverance

[@HowBigistheMap]

I think you're right

[@chevyrupleix]

7:26 this scared the shit out of me. Thought someone was with me even I'm alone in the house.

[@HowBigistheMap]

You mean the goat?

[@nikolai1714]

This deserves 12,33 million views

[@danielpedraza6455]

This video is relaxing

[@HowBigistheMap]

I'm glad you like it

[@AKSURFS]

This is really cool ✨✌

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks AK Surfs!

[@GAMEREFERENCES2021]

Wow! Awesome video! Thank you!

[@KoiGaming]

Not sure if you recorded every inch of your journey but would be great to see the oddball things that happened in each game along the way

[@HowBigistheMap]

A lot of things happen while I'm walking. Sometimes I write it down in the descriptions.

[@QueenAnemone77]

Finally someone included the Saint Row games

[@HowBigistheMap]

Of course!! The game worlds in the Saints Row games are one of the best out there. And big enough to get in this list. Saints Row games are so funny. They need to make a new Saints Row game! Wait a minute, weren't they working on one?

[@QueenAnemone77]

Yes. It will release in August I believe. The map is Santa Illeso

[@hakan572]

Great Content , keep it up!

[@ArjunSudhakar]

Awesome video as always! If only I had the patience like you! What do you think is the biggest open world game which has considerable amount of liveliness in it like GTA? I hate when most of the games just have unused barren lands and have nothing lively there.

[@HowBigistheMap]

I think the Watch Dogs games and the Saints Row games.

[@7dayspking]

Did you mean largest map? If so didn't you watch the video?

[@ArjunSudhakar]

@@7dayspking I did watch the video. I was asking about game having the largest map with live interactions throughout the map like GTA.

[@7dayspking]

@@ArjunSudhakar That's answered in the video.

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@ArjunSudhakar The maps with the most content in it (like the GTA games) are probably the game worlds in the Watch Dogs games and the Saints Row games.

[@tryfan4705]

Got you an amazing idea, fly across the elite dangerous map

[@HowBigistheMap]

Would be great! Thanks for the tip!

[@leventeacs6371]

Thank you for your incredible efforts! While you don't have many fans, the ones you have are really grateful for your work! Since you have played so many open-world games, what not so well-known games would you recommend? I have tried Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 just because I saw your video about it and I really enjoyed that one. If you have any other hidden gems let me know.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Did you play the Saboteur?

[@HowBigistheMap]

What about DayZ? Or Scum?

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad I can make a few people happy with my content.

[@leventeacs6371]

@@HowBigistheMap I might try this one. Thanks.

[@Adam-pz7cm]

Love this guy!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🤙👌🤘

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks Adam!!!

[@likmaw]

Incredible

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thank you

[@7dayspking]

The characters are walking and running at vastly different speeds and your routes from on side to the other aren't always equivalent either. You're also using the in game speed gauges for the vehicles speeds. There's actual comparisons out there with actual evidence, this could be one of them (even keeping the footage) with minor alterations. If you had just done a test for movement speed you could have even given a rough estimation for distance and area. Instead we're comparing TIMES and not DISTANCE.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Maybe I should do something like this the next time: the walking speed that really looks slowly like in Skyrim: 2 mph. Normal walking speed as 3 mph and faster walking speed (still not jogging) as 4 mph. And then calculate. And you're right, with the driving games I used the speed meter in the screen of the game. Can you please give the links to these comparisons you were talking about, with actual evidence. Maybe I can learn something from it. Thanks for your opinion.

[@HowBigistheMap]

You did an awesome video about this subject yourself. About walking speed in games. Cool. I gave your video a thumb up! For those who are interested, here's the link to this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWHShmp-ndWEr6c

[@7dayspking]

@@HowBigistheMap I was talking about people on different game site forums who've gone and calculated map size for different games by digging into the data or finding other ways to calculate speed and distance (breaking the game worlds down into grids, chunks, squares etc and using in-game objects or character models to determine distances) I definitely wasn't referring to my video, that was lazy. Not sure why you're patronizing me, I wasn't trying to be offensive. I think you've gone through all of the hard work and then some that'd be needed to make calculations. You just need to find movement speed.

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@7dayspking I never try to patronize anybody, not even my pupils at school. I really think your video is great and I dropped the link here so others can check out your video as well. You show us the height of the character, the length of the tiles, etc. My compliments for the accuracy, for real. Why don't you make videos anymore?

[@7dayspking]

@@HowBigistheMap I was never consistently making videos. I used very quick, lazy solutions to estimate all of those things (done in a few minutes.). Not to the lengths others have. For example, I took TW3's units as metres because they seemed close enough. Which would make the Velen + Novigrad map roughly 12 km2 (slightly smaller than Kingdom Come Deliverance's game world, 1/20th the size of AC Odyssey's.)

[@wheeljack210]

Great job

[@TheRebelTitan55]

16:58 RIP Those poor dinosaurs :'(

[@HowBigistheMap]

Haha, I guess they're blind or something. Or they panic because they see me, that crazy man that walk around their whole planet!

[@MB-eb9ed]

This is interesting data but it's not the final answer. However big the maps are is the distance, not the time it takes to travel at a fixed rate. A follow-up to this video could be to calculate those actual dimensions and show side-by-sides of the maps of the different games

[@HowBigistheMap]

Yeah, maybe in the future. Thansk for the feedback.

[@shortcat]

i hope your channel will become the size of a No Man's Sky planet one day.

[@HowBigistheMap]

That's very kind. Thanks!

[@Lit_Hot_takes]

Is Test drive unlimited that island game? if it was i remember that vid you did with the other MP drivers :D

[@HowBigistheMap]

Yeah, that's the one!!

[@Lit_Hot_takes]

@@HowBigistheMap That was one of the first vidz i watched - and that one was so entertaining :D

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@Lit_Hot_takes Yeah, you were in the comments. You wish the game was on console. I just looked it up. The game was on PS2 and XBox 360. Test Drive Unlimited was out for XBox 360 and PS3. What console do you have?

[@charlymundo1439]

What's your favorite map? Mine is Ac origins and just cause 3, gorgeous looking maps

[@HowBigistheMap]

Definitely Just Cause 3!!! And also Kingdom Come Deliverance. GTA V, Saints Row games, AC Origins, AC Odyssey, AC Valhalla, and a whole lot of other ones!

[@charlymundo1439]

@@HowBigistheMap yeah Saint's Row 2 is beautifull and has a lot of secret areas

[@profchaos7289]

This should have 11mil views, not 11k

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks for the compliment.

[@matii-8821]

Enjoy

[@Eburon]

15:53 Now the real deal begins

[@HowBigistheMap]

Hahaha, yep.

[@hmarc1979able]

Never would had guessed that forza 4 was smaller than burn out paradise.

[@KoiGaming]

So No Man's SKy would take forever to walk around 1 planet. I've tried and I only got to about 1/12th of a hemisphere before I found a trade station and finally could afford a ship to fly off thank goodness too!

[@thewitchcoven]

This guy sounds like Daisuke Ishawatari

[@berkin1004200091]

You still count true crime street of LA as running but I still think it is sprinting 😂

[@HowBigistheMap]

I know. You told me that in another comment. I hesitated... Maybe in the next list I'll see it as sprinting.

[@berkin1004200091]

@@HowBigistheMap thank you bro, I just can't see it as running, he sprints I think 😂

[@Vysair]

9:30 Genshin Impact Finally Genshin Impact! And the map change as developers keep adding new country. The continent is said to be one of the smaller one too

[@Vysair]

@@HowBigistheMap Inazuma Update, which is a new region is coming up in 4 days and there will be anniversary event too coming up soon which I hope they will expand the continent more.

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@Vysair Thanks for the information!

[@klasambro]

Where is ghost of tsushima? Even on a horse it took me almost 1 hour from South to the north

[@HowBigistheMap]

I only have a PC :(

[@hakan572]

Can you tell me your PC Specs?

[@HowBigistheMap]

Of course. Here you go: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor 3.80 GHz Installed RAM memory: 32,0 GB Type: x64 Processor Videocard: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super

[@TheLoy71]

19 seconds 3 views, my personal record 😁

[@danielpedraza6455]

You forgo the biggest map in The Witcher 3

[@HowBigistheMap]

That's Skellige Islands. It's at nr. 139 (Velen is at nr. 149)

[@danielpedraza6455]

@@HowBigistheMap but the Velen map is actually 2 areas, I don't quite remember because it's been a while since I played the Witcher 3 but basically Velen is the southern area of the map but that same map also has a Northern area, I don't really think Skellige is bigger than those 2 areas combined even if you count the water in Skellige

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@danielpedraza6455 In this video I walk across all maps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpzLo6GOlqeFjLc

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@danielpedraza6455 The northern part of Velen is Novigrad. I started my walk there.

[@landofbol1098]

What about Satisfactory?

[@HowBigistheMap]

That's a good tip. I'll take a look at it soon.

[@landofbol1098]

@@HowBigistheMap Thanks!

[@hmarc1979able]

Breath of the wild was missing. I imagine it’s close to red dead 2 .

[@HowBigistheMap]

Yeah, I still have to do that one but I don't have the right console. Thanks for the comment!

[@leonova1391]

What about Elder Scrolls Online?

[@HowBigistheMap]

I didn't walk across that whole map yet when I made this video. But now I did. It took me 4 hours and 54 minutes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHXddqiMd6iZfpI

[@lonewulfmo9128]

Jesus christ on a bicycle! Did u actually walk each of these maps not sure u did bro. If so Hooooooly shit! Waaaaaah! Awesum vid. Waaah

[@HowBigistheMap]

Yes, I did. Thanks!!

[@DayaranPlays]

Holy fucking shit. That's all I have to say.

[@Leo-uu8du]

How big is the map of Valheim?

[@HowBigistheMap]

It's in the list. It took 4 hours and 41 minutes.

[@Leo-uu8du]

@@HowBigistheMap Oh thank you! I didn't have time to watch the full video, sry.

[@HowBigistheMap]

It's ok. You can find the whole journey somewhere on this channel, if you have 4 hours left XD

[@johnairhart769]

Where’s Xenoblade Chronicles X?

[@TadejSmerke]

Legend says if you comment in the first hour of video release, your comment gets pinned (to the wall of his office!)

[@Nakilon]

11:15 -- ahah, wtf

[@HowBigistheMap]

Second Life is a pretty weird game. Is it a game?

[@quentin0788]

where is assassin's creed 2?

[@HowBigistheMap]

I still have to do that one...

[@johnny5805]

I admire your the determination it takes you to make your videos knowing that people only watch the first and last 30 seconds of each, but this list is wholly ridiculous. I knew this as soon as you got to DayZ and then had Assassin's Creed Origins and True Crime directly above it, which is patently laughable. I stopped watching at that point.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thanks for the feedback. Is it because you think the map in True Crime: Streets of LA is bigger and had to be higher on this list? I also drove across that map in True Crime and it took only 10 minutes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHuXinqOgKukbas

[@pompomrick4341]

🇳🇱

[@HowBigistheMap]

Yep, I'm from The Netherlands.

[@kabirozigi7293]

Walk two lines one for length and one fore wodth

[@HowBigistheMap]

I guess that would be more accurate maybe. Thanks for the idea.

[@macobus6743]

Ok but no mans sky has loading zones entering planets, they're just hidden