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The Longing

Initial releaseMarch 5, 2020

Genres

Action Adventure
Indie
Puzzle
RPG
Simulation

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An image of the words Ask RPS on an off-white background

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What's the worst thing you've done for an achievement?

Fachewachewa Asks RPS

March 15, 2023Katharine Castle

125 comments

A close up of the little goblin-y fella in The Longing

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Why real-time idle adventure games have "radical potential"

The developers of The Longing and Time Bandit on temporal experiences in their weird, cool games

Feb. 24, 2023Nic Reuben

29 comments

Two screenshots from The Longing and Ghost On The Shore

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At long last, RPS premium supporters can now claim their next free game key

Sorry also for the tardy nature of this so-called reminder post

July 18, 2022Katharine Castle

9 comments

Two screenshots from The Longing and Ghost On The Shore

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RPS premium supporters can now pick up their next free game on Monday, July 18th

The bug has been quashed

July 15, 2022Katharine Castle

24 comments

A composite image showing, on the left side, the Shade from The Longing sitting in his underground cave home, and on the right a female ghost looking as a male ghost walks away in Ghost On The Shore

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RPS premium supporters can choose The Longing or Ghost On The Shore for free this week

Codes are first come, first served

July 12, 2022Alice Bell

16 comments

A close up of the little goblin-y fella in The Longing

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The real beauty of secrets in games like The Longing is to share them

Longing for answers

June 10, 2020Henry Ewins

5 comments

I have finished the sad tamogotchi game that is The Longing

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I have finished the sad tamogotchi game that is The Longing

The last, long wait

April 2, 2020Alice Bell

16 comments

The deep darkness of caves and mushrooms in The Longing

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The deep darkness of caves and mushrooms in The Longing

Not mushroom to breathe

March 12, 2020Alice Bell

6 comments

A close up of the little goblin-y fella in The Longing

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The Longing released today, inviting you to wait 400 days to escape a cave

Long for The Longing no longer

March 5, 2020Imogen Beckhelling

8 comments

Making strange friends and tripping on mushrooms in The Longing

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Making strange friends and tripping on mushrooms in The Longing

Going underground

Feb. 13, 2020Alice Bell

9 comments

The first week of The Longing: depressing royalist art and talking walls

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The first week of The Longing: depressing royalist art and talking walls

Click to very slowly move

Jan. 13, 2020Alice Bell

17 comments

Gamescom's best of the rest: the coolest indies round up

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Gamescom's best of the rest: the coolest indies round up

Throw your hands up at me

Sept. 5, 2019Alice Bell

18 comments

The best games from A Maze Festival in Berlin

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The best games from A Maze Festival in Berlin

A-mazing

April 24, 2019Giada Zavarise

2 comments

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