The Longing takes 400 days to play. Not like, in-game days, I imply 400 full rotations of our precise real-life planet. The game launched at the moment, so if you happen to make a begin proper now it is best to have it completed by Friday ninth April 2021. It’s a type of journey/idle game the place you take care of a Shade trapped underground whose solely purpose is to attend.
There’s numerous issues you are able to do within the game aside from wait, after all, you’ll be able to discover, make your Shade a little bit dwelling, paint, and even attempt to escape if you happen to’re feeling courageous. Alice Bee is doing a Diary Of The Longing and, in her most up-to-date entry, she made her poor Shade (who she named Burnsy) journey out on mushrooms.
“Today Burnsy ate a kind of mushroom that made them have a hallucinogenic trip/vision quest. They saw an old man and a young, red-haired child with a tail, raising water from a well on the surface. This is, I’m sure, a clue to help Burnsy in their escape!”
Time will go within the game even if you happen to’re not enjoying it, so that you don’t must verify in in your Shade every single day if you happen to don’t wish to. There are some issues you are able to do to hurry time up, Alice found that just spending time in the Shade’s living room will do that.
I like to recommend giving these diaries a learn when you have an opportunity. While a game like this doesn’t actually attraction to me personally, experiencing it vicariously by way of Alice’s writing is simply as (if no more) entertaining. Here’s a little bit snippet from her fateful first day:
“A Shade achieves a lot in their first day! Mostly, it consists of walking, and discovering areas we can’t reach yet. The palace halls are a weird mix of ruined grandeur and damp, earthy caves that haven’t enjoyed any renovations at all. Lumps of coal regularly fall from the ceiling with a sad little echoey noise, and I collect them in the hope of making a fire soon. I briefly worry that we might enter a kind of The Descent scenario, encountering Bad Gollums, but that much excitement goes against the principle of the game.”
Apparently, The Longing relies on a real-life German legend, too, the Kyffhäuser legend, during which “a King under a mountain is waiting for the right time to awaken”. You may learn real-life books in-game, drawn from the general public area archives of Project Gutenberg.
The extra I hear about this game the extra intrigued I develop into – I can’t wait to listen to what occurs when somebody manages to flee.
If all this has left you eager for The Longing, you’ll be able to seize it on Steam proper now for £13/€15/$15.
