When Grand Theft Auto VI finally arrives in November, Kai Cenat wants to sit down and not get back up until he has seen everything Vice City and Leonida has to offer.
In a clip that made the rounds earlier this month, Cenat said he does not know when he will end the stream once the next Grand Theft Auto drops, only that he is going to marathon GTA 6 until it hits 100 percent complete, and he went out of his way to emphasize that he's talking about more than just the main story of Lucia and Jason. This isn't new for him either. He made the same promise back in early 2025, when the game's release window was still a moving target, and he has now reaffirmed it with the November 19 launch actually confirmed and final.
Although not impossible, it's also much easier said than done. Full completion in a Rockstar Games open world means the story and a never-ending laundry list of everything else, from the collectibles to the random events, the hobbies and side missions, the quiet checklist of odd little tasks the game tracks in the background, and everything else in between. In Grand Theft Auto V, chewing through that entire 100 percent checklist takes most players somewhere around 80 to 90 hours. In Red Dead Redemption 2, the amount it takes to complete everything doubles, and streamers tend to run slower because they are chatting, dying, getting lost, and stopping to read donations the entire way through.
Rockstar Open-World Completion Times vs. Kai Cenat Marathon Benchmarks
Game / Marathon | Main Story | Main + Sides/Extras | 100% / Completionist | Notes on Continuous Streams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
GTA V | ~31–32 hours | ~51–55 hours | ~80–90 hours (median ~80h; avg closer to 89–98h) | No major high-profile continuous 100% livestream documented. Story-focused marathons exist (e.g. ~48h by other streamers). |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | ~50–51 hours | ~84–89 hours | ~186–200 hours (often ~190–193h) | Standard player averages. |
Kai Cenat – RDR2 Marathon (2024) | ~50–56 hours | — | — | Continuous stream to finish main story only (thematic cowboy setup, emotional ending). Did not pursue 100%. |
GTA 6 (estimates) | ~35–50+ hours (common range; some unconfirmed leaks higher) | ~60–90+ hours | Likely 100–200+ hours (speculative; denser than GTA V, potentially near or above RDR2 scale) | Kai plans open-ended marathon to full 100%. Expected to be one of his longest pure gaming challenges if completed. |
Kai Cenat – Elden Ring Marathon | — | — | ~166–172 hours | Continuous stream until the base game was beaten (heavy death count, multi-day endurance). |
Kai’s other long runs | — | — | — | Multiple multi-day Souls-like titles, Minecraft Hardcore (collaborative), etc. Shows he can sustain long streams with short rests/naps rather than pure zero-sleep. |
How long 100 percent completion really takes in a Rockstar open world and Kai Cenat's history with gaming marathons.
Nobody outside Rockstar knows just how long it will take to finish GTA 6, but the game's location and setting alone is widely expected to be bigger and denser than Los Santos. What Cenat is describing viewed from this perspective is something closer to a week and a half of near-constant play at the low end, and potentially a lot more. Because of that, the "24/7, no sleep, until it's done" marathon won't happen. Cenat's own history also says as much.
Back in 2024, Cenat's famous Red Dead Redemption 2 run was about 56 hours, and that nowhere near 100 percent. His Elden Ring marathon stretched closer to 170 hours, but he spread it across days with food, rest, and sleep. He has pulled off a month-long streaming event before, so stamina definitely isn't the issue. Rather, it's that nobody streams for ten straight days without sleeping. Whatever this turns into, it will have breaks in it. It has to.
There is also a real chance the goalposts changes. "Until it's 100 percent complete" is an enormous, open-ended promise to make about a game nobody has touched yet. He could easily turn it into a "the launch marathon" that clears the story and then trails into normal-length sessions. If Kai Cenat pivots towards this, it wouldn't make him a fraud. It would make him a guy with a body and a schedule, like everyone else. It's also one of the best things GTA 6 will have going for it if it happens.
A launch-day marathon from one of the biggest streamers alive is the kind of organic hype no marketing budget can manufacture, off the backs of a studio who has quietly followed a small army of streamers ahead of the August 27 Netflix reveal.
Ultimately, Cenat does not need Rockstar's blessing to do any of this, and Rockstar does not have to lift a finger to cash in on it, which is the entire gist of what's about to happen in a couple of months. Everyone with an audience already has a GTA 6 plan, from an energy drink company operating with a skeletal staff on launch day to a car tuner taking the entire day off, and all of those plans double as free advertising for Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive.