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.

deeper than expected. You will have to leave the game alone for a bunch of time, and it's slow. However, it's beautiful, muisiscs serve the atmosphere well. Some choices won't please all players (sorry, I have to be vague). You can be very active in this idler though, to understand the riddles of this dark, dark world. To those fallen in darkness, [i]I see you[/i].

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.

This game was the first one I ever bought on steam and I am very happy with my choice. It is an amazing concept that is executed brilliantly. I love all the different parts of the cave along with the little comments the 'Shade' makes while exploring. What you must understand before purchasing this game is that after you have gotten everything you can to decorate you house, there isn't much else to do. However as long as you don't immediately try to acquire all the things to decorate your home and take the game at the slow pace it is meant to be played at, you will have a very enjoyable time playing it! Would 100% recommend this game, especially to people that like the more relaxing games with not much progression or aim.

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

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.

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.

You get what you think it is, wait 400 days. But it helps you to slow down and it is a beautiful experience to see where were you 400 days ago

I played the game once with a disappointing ending. I played it in short breaks between other games. I'll come back to it after some time with some experience...

This game is surprisingly fun! When I first played last year, I wasn't all about the slow games. I didn't like the noise in my mind, but when I was younger, I loved doing nothing. The Shade has allowed me to find peace in doing nothing again. The game is less about patience and more about being in the moment. I loved watching the Shade walk to places I'd explored, and I loved exploring and figuring out places I needed to go to. The drawing, reading, watching, waiting...The Shade has taught me, doing nothing is healthy. Doing nothing isn't nothing, it's part of self care. The game is meant to be played once, but the secret is you can play again, and that's exactly what I plan to do. When I need to be reminded that I can just do nothing, I plan on playing again. And again. And again. This game has easily made it to my top 10 favorite games, and that's not a list that's easily broken.

This is a really unique idle game. The atmosphere is great, and exploring the cave is a fun in a chill patient way.

Fun 'game', awesome artwork. I destroyed the pickaxe first time around - and didn't log in for most of the days. But great all the same.

[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.

This game will change your perspective of your life

My game randomly restarted and im mad.

Honestly I have no clue why I have played so much of this game.

I love this game. And I hate this game. I definitely recommend it.

really peaceful

Waste of time

very long

This is just not fun

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