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The Longing video game review


The Longing is deliberately slow and tedious, but I can't stop playing

The Longing feels like a troll. It's a game that takes 400 real-world days to finish, and it moves at a pace that could only generously be described as glacial.

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 Reviews - Metacritic

Turns out it isn't, and The Longing is one of the most inventive experimental games I've played. It captures the depths of crushing loneliness and isolation, ...

'The Longing' Is a Video Game of Transcendent Slowness - WIRED

Its 400-day playtime, a cocktail of intense boredom and occasional triumph, has the effect of conjuring the surreal sense of time many of us ...

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 real time.

The Longing: Review - Sprites and Dice

The Longing is an experimental exploration/idle game that may just be the longest game ever made, yet require the least play time to beat.

The Longing Review (Switch eShop) - Nintendo Life

It's a beautifully simplistic game with an art style that is dark, lonely-like and richly detailed. I like that everything and anything could be ...

The Longing Review - Gamecritics.com

Remappable Controls: No, this game's controls are not remappable. There is no control diagram. Author; Recent Posts. Brad ...

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: 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 - Jump Dash Roll

This is a game requiring thoughtfulness and patience. It is perhaps better to describe The Longing as an avant-garde experience designed to make ...

The Longing Review | This is going to take forever! - YouTube

... The Longing has a few tricks to make the game move quicker and I cover all that in this video. Buy ▻ https://store.steampowered.com/app ...

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 (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 – an ambient game in the purest sense

As a game, The Longing is almost absurdly simple. Playing as a small, Gollum-like character called the Shade, you must wander the caverns where ...

The Longing Review - Russell Troxel

The developers even point out that the player can start the game and then not play again for 400 days, but I decided against that option since ...

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 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 Review - Rapid Reviews UK

You can explore or immediately turn off that game and never touch it again. That would be quite easy, but also a bit boring. Despite you ...

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.