Application Systems Heidelberg

Factsheet

Developer:
Studio Seufz
Based in Stuttgart, Germany

Release date:
Released

Regular Price:

USD	14,99
EUR	14,99
GBP	12,99
CAD	17,49
CHF	15,5

The Longing - Description

As soon as you start, the game inevitably counts down the 400 days - even when you stop playing and exit the game.

It is now up to you to decide what to do with your solitary existence beneath the soil. Don't stress yourself, you have plenty of time.

Choose your playing style

Start the game and simply come back after 400 days to see how it ends. You actually don't have to play the game at all. But the Shade will be even more lonely without you.

Or explore the caves and collect items for your comfortable underground living room. Just send the Shade to take a stroll - the walking speed is slow, but luckily there is no need to hurry.

Read tons of classic literature from Nietzsche to Moby Dick right in the game - or at least have the shade read them. After all, time goes by faster if you learn to keep your mind occupied. (The little Shade in the game finds ONLY English books for now.)

Ignore the king's commands and advance to the outer regions the cave. It will be a long and dangerous journey into darkness...

NOTE: The game time keeps counting down even if you quit the game or shut down your computer.

Features

Slow exploration of a vast, hand-drawn cave.
Atmospheric Dungeon Synth soundtrack.
Various endings.
Lots of well hidden secrets.

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Awards & Recognition

"Winner: Long Feature Award (A MAZE Berlin 2019)"
"Nominee: IGF Nuovo Award (IGF, San Francisco 2020)"
"Special Mention: Animated Games Award (Germany 2019)"
"Ars Technica Best PC games of 2020"
"adventuregamers.com Silver Aggie, category "So 2020""
"Winner: German Computer Games Award 2020"

Selected Articles

"I love that The Longing has imbued my laptop with this sad and eerie atmosphere, which is another of its brilliant subversions. We tend to think that computers and software should make us quicker and more efficient, that our time can always be better optimized. [The Longing] is a rebuttal of these ideas."
- Wired, The Longing is a Video Game of Transcendent Slowness
"The Longing makes a mockery of the idea that games depend upon instant gratifications. It is a minimalist game that creates ample space for the mind to wander and philosophize along with the Shade as he considers his existential condition, his loneliness and his lack of control over his situation."
- Washington Post, The Longing: Patience (and lots of it) is required, but it’s worth every minute
"In the process of playing, The Longing forces you to live in the experience of waiting, wondering, being alone with your thoughts, the unanswerable, and what it means to be content."
- Ars Technica, Ars Technica’s best games of 2020
"Why The Longing Takes Four Hundred Days to Play"
- Adam Millard, The Architect of Games, YouTube link

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