The Longing Reviews
The Longing is the closest thing to a perfect game I've ever seen
The sound and visuals are absolutely fantastic, as you said. Even the small bit of fancy, regal music in the game feels painfully ironic when ...
The Longing is deliberately slow and tedious, but I can't stop playing
The Longing is, at its core, a game about killing time. There's no explicit goal other than ...
The Longing Reviews - Metacritic
The Longing uses isolation, open space and freedom of choice to send players on a year-long exploration of loneliness, identity and meaning in real time. It won ...
'The Longing' Is a Video Game of Transcendent Slowness - WIRED
Set in a virtual cave, this Tamagotchi-like waiting simulator is a riff on a German folktale that captures 2020's sad and surreal lockdown energy.
The Longing Review (Switch eShop) - Nintendo Life
It's essentially a (very) long gag – screen after screen of rooms, full to the brim with quite bizarre text. It takes what feels like hours to make it through.
The Longing review | Adventure Gamers
The Longing uses isolation, open space and freedom of choice to send players on a year-long exploration of loneliness, identity and meaning in ...
The Longing Review - Gamecritics.com
This game is rated E10+ and contains Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, and Violent References.
The Longing video game review - The Washington Post
“The Longing” is a point-and-click game about waiting based on an old German legend about a ruler who goes to sleep in an underground cave.
The Longing: Review - Sprites and Dice
The thing you have to understand is that The Longing plays in real time. The time from when the Old King falls asleep to when you can wake him ...
Buzz · "A very original and atmospheric gaming experience and a fascinating experiment." · "[...] we wish to accompany the Shade throughout his life, and he will ...
The Longing mobile review | Pocket Gamer
The Longing is a quirky cross between an idle game and a point-and-click adventure, spliced with rich narrative tidbits in between and presented with a ...
The Longing (Switch) Review - Nintendo World Report
The Longing is really a game about comfort and perseverance. You play a character called The Shade, who looks like a combination of a black cat ...
The Longing Review - Jump Dash Roll
The Longing is a unique game in the sense that it is part puzzler, part adventure game, and part Tamagotchi, all revolving around time as a concept.
The Longing Reviews - OpenCritic
The Longing is rated 'Strong' after being reviewed by 23 critics, with an overall average score of 76. It's ranked in the top 33% of games and...
The Longing - The Elite Institute
The Longing is less of a game, and more of an insight into the human soul. If you come into this expecting a game, heck, if you even come in expecting fun, you ...
The Longing Review | This is going to take forever! - YouTube
The Longing converts idle game mechanics into incredible exploration mechanics even if they're incredibly slow! It's always nice to see ...
The Longing Review: Decorating to Distract From Being Deep ...
The Longing, developed by German animation and video game developers Studio Seufz, centers on a rock king's last-ditch effort to stay in ...
“The Longing” Review - SmashPad
While The Longing is successful in communicating feelings of boredom and languishment throughout, I'm not entirely convinced that makes it a ...
Dale Yu: Review of The Longing (PC Game on Steam)
The Longing has been an intriguing balance of exploration, napping, lounging, reading, and simply waiting.
The Longing Review - Gaming Respawn
The Longing is a slow-paced idle adventure game that involves a lot of waiting. You will need the patience of a saint to play this game.