We determine the consistency strength of determinacy for projective games of length ω 2 . Our main theorem is that Π 1 n+1 -determinacy for games of length ω 2 implies the existence of a model of set theory with ω + n Woodin cardinals. In a first step, we show that this hypothesis implies that there is a countable set of reals A such that Mn(A), the canonical inner model for n Woodin cardinals constructed over A, satisfies A = R and the Axiom of Determinacy. Then we argue how to obtain a model with ω + n Woodin cardinal from this.We also show how the proof can be adapted to investigate the consistency strength of determinacy for games of length ω 2 with payoff in R Π 1 1 or with σ-projective payoff. The pointclass of all σ-projective sets is the smallest pointclass closed under complements, countable unions, and projections, where countable unions refer to sets which are subsets of the same product space. Moreover, we as usual identify R and ω ω.2 In fact, an argument as in [AMS, Proposition 2.7] with a more careful analysis of the complexity of the payoff sets (using projective determinacy) shows that these two determinacy hypotheses are equivalent. 3 We would like to thank the referee for asking whether (4) and (5) could be added to Corollary 1.2; see also [AgMu].