THE LONGING

Waiting won't change anything. It's better to walk. Walk in a Hall of eternity. Some say walking there is only a fool's road. Well i am such a fool. Until you get bored and sleep 365 days. I missed my birthday :( and didn't get the achievement. This game is an experience.

The Longing is an experimental point and click game that is known for the 400 days that are (on the surface) required to beat the game. The dungeon you’re trapped in is really interesting to explore, and the character you pilot has a lot of subtle charm. It’s a perfect game for quiet evenings.

I was not prepared for how attached I would get to this game, or how much I love it. Really unusual, but excellent.

An unforgettable experience. I played this quite a while ago now, but I ended up really enjoying the game. It starts off INSANELY slow, but if you put in the time, it just gets more and more interesting as you play it. I will probably never experience something like this again. It is a wholly unique, and extremely artistic masterpiece. This game is not traditionally "fun" to play. But it sends an incredible message entirely through the vehicle of it's exhaustingly slow, and deeply nuanced gameplay. As you gradually map out the world, and learn its secrets. The story of this world, and the Shade, begin to unravel, bit by bit. Revealing the true "HEART" of The Longing, and the purpose of all this waiting. You may have a seemingly endless amount time ahead of you. But when you take a break from all the busyness that floods your daily life. You will look back, wondering where all that time went.

Not only does this game have an interesting concept, it executed that concept in a fun and engaging way.

Amazing game highly recommend although some of the puzzles can be difficult I'd say the sweet sweet ending is worth it

Longing is a new style of game for me that I found very funny and entertaining. A game that wasn't made to be played quickly will always take a few days even if you have everything to speed up the time. In this game, you have to be really crazy.

Love this game. It gives an unsettling but comforting feeling throughout the entire thing.

Be ready to wait. The game is slow. But it drives the point. As the sahde says "we have all the time in the world". Highly recommend. This is a gem. I understand not everyone will appreciate it since it's more arts than most games today. It isn't action packed. It isn't full of ennemies to bash up. It isn't even here to entertain you. It's here to make you think about what value your time really has. And how happiness isn't coming from the ether. You have to work for it daily. And i too shall slowly walk to my happiness in the future.

Not an experience all will enjoy, but it is unique. I felt so many emotions playing this game: joy, sadness, loneliness, curiosity...and longing, to name a few. I loved the theme and solving the puzzles; Although, I had to lookup a more than few solutions. I recommend anyone who plays this to restrain themselves from looking up solutions for as [i]long[/i] as you can without giving up on the game entirely. [spoiler]A new longing begins.[/spoiler]

I wish I could have an "informational" recommendation. The game does a lot correctly and is VERY experimental - but I wouldn't consider it "good", "deep", "fun" or interesting. The game is an extremely atmospheric adventure game where you bask in the vibe of being a little creature in a big cave. It's purposefully slow and boring - but if you can get past that - you might enjoy it. Instead of playing this, play Pathologic - it does a lot of the concepts better.

nice and chill to have running while doing other stuff, or even other games :)

while somethings like moving decorations when you have a large amount of them can be annoying it's a good game despite it's flaws.

its a chill relaxing game to come back every now and then and you can run it while its in the backround.

[h2]This Isn’t a Review of the Game. It’s a Review of Why I Couldn’t Play It.[/h2] THE LONGING is probably one of the most unique, fascinating concepts I’ve ever seen in gaming. A real-time countdown of 400 days. A lonely, passive, melancholic experience meant to be savored in slow, deliberate pieces. I knew exactly what I was getting into. I was ready for the patience. I wanted to sink into it. What I didn’t expect was that the game would be literally unplayable on my machine unless I was willing to dive into config files or dig through forum threads to get basic functionality working. You get two options out of the box: Full screen—which, for a game this slow and passive, is absurd. I don’t want my entire monitor locked up for hours by a glacial existential cave-crawler. Windowed mode—which on my system was so tiny I could barely read the text, with no way to resize it. Not by dragging the edges, not through settings. Just a postage-stamp-sized cave and unreadable UI. I’m sure there’s an .ini file somewhere that fixes it. I’m sure some saint on a forum has written up the workaround. But I have a rule: if a game’s whole premise is “do nothing slowly,” then the least it can do is let me see what I’m not doing. And that’s the shame. Because from what I could see, I thought it was brilliant. I liked the tone. I liked the atmosphere. I liked the concept. It’s one of the only idle-style games I’ve ever been interested in playing. So this thumbs down? It’s reluctant. I respect what this game is doing, and I absolutely see why it connects with people. But I can’t recommend it to anyone without at least warning them: depending on your setup, this game may be literally unplayable without technical tweaking—and it gives you zero help getting there.

game are just problems to be solved and everything between. there are no problem here

[i]As long as there is time, there will always be longing. And once all longing has ended, the world will no longer need time... And those without longing will no longer need the world.[/i]

"As long as there is time, there will always be longing. And once all longing has ended, the world will no longer need time.. and those without longing will no longer need the world. But this is the tragedy of being; each triumph may be a veiled defeat. And for each defeat, there is a hidden triumph, lingering in the dark." The Longing Has Ended. worth every cent. I am sure I made the Shade's Longing easier - at least as much easier as the Shade made the years pass by.

I only played for 10 hours before I stupidly woke up the King. I want to play again and free Shade.

My game randomly restarted and im mad.

very long

Waste of time