Разработчик: Studio Seufz
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"The Longing – игра (кстати, номинированная на IGF Awards 2020 в категории «новичок»), которая не стремится развлечь, но предлагает очень интересную идею, заставляет немного задуматься и даже недолго погрустить. Чтобы проникнуться ею, нужно принять ее концепцию и настроиться на ее волну. И уметь ждать – король проснется еще не скоро."
8/10 - cubiq.ru"Players can expect one of the most unusual video games of the year with The Longing from Studio Seufz"
- heise.de, Germany"A very original and atmospheric gaming experience and a fascinating experiment."
82/100 - PC Gamer, Sweden"[...] we wish to accompany the Shade throughout his life, and he will accompany us even in our absences."
90/100 - , Spain"The Longing shows beautiful art and unhurried gameplay."
4.2/5 - , Brazil"The only flaw I can find in this little pearl is that we will hardly replay it, but it was created as a unique experience and so it will be for all those who buy it. You will not regret."
95/100 - pcguru.hu"The Longing is a fascinating adventure as long as you remember that it is not intended to be played in one, or even ten, sessions. "
80/100 - , Finland
Об игре
Необычная смесь приключения и неторопливого хождения.
Играйте за одинокого Теня, последнего слугу короля, некогда правившего подземным миром. Силы его иссякли, и он впал в глубокий 400-дневный сон, чтобы восстановить свою мощь. Ваш долг — ожидать его пробуждения в земляном дворце.
Игра начинает отсчитывать 400 дней с момента запуска и не перестает, даже когда вы ничего в ней не делаете или выключаете ее.
Так что лишь вам решать, как влачить это одинокое существование под землей. И не надо переживать, времени у вас предостаточно.
Выберите свой стиль игры
Начните игру и просто включите ее снова через 400 дней, чтобы посмотреть финал. Вам вообще не нужно в нее играть. Но без вас Теню будет совсем одиноко.
Исследуйте пещеру и собирайте предметы для вашего уютного подземного жилища. Просто отправьте Теня на прогулку — ходит он небыстро, но и нам спешить некуда.
Прочитайте огромное количество классической литературы, от Ницше до "Моби Дика" прямо в игре, ну или пусть хотя бы Тень их почитает. Ведь время идет быстрее, если занят делом. (В данный момент все книги доступны ТОЛЬКО на английском языке.)
Ослушайтесь приказов короля и исследуйте дальние части пещеры. Это путешествие во тьме обещает быть опасным и долгим...
Особенности
- Медленное исследование просторной нарисованной от руки пещеры.
- Атфосферный подземный синт-саундтрек.
- Различные концовки.
- Множество тщательно спрятанных секретов.
- Загадки на время.
- Одинокий, но милый главный герой.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, german, french, portuguese - brazil, russian, italian, spanish - spain, korean, simplified chinese, japanese, polish
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7 SP1+
- Процессор: 1.2 GHz
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: 1024MB VRAM
- Сеть: Широкополосное подключение к интернету
- Место на диске: 5 GB
Mac
- ОС: Mac OS X 10.11+
- Процессор: 1.2 GHz
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: 1024MB VRAM
- Сеть: Широкополосное подключение к интернету
- Место на диске: 5 GB
Linux
- ОС: Ubuntu 16.04+, SteamOS+
- Процессор: 1.2 GHz
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: 1024MB VRAM
- Сеть: Широкополосное подключение к интернету
- Место на диске: 5 GB
Отзывы пользователей
soothing, meditative, something nice to come home to after a long chaotic shift. covering my home in spider paintings as we speak.
моя любимая игра. грустно, что уже 200-какойто день. не хочу, чтобы она заканчивалась. Тенюшечка лучший ^_^
A wonderful game. Definitely not everybody's cup of tea, but a great way to appreciate the things you have in life and to have patience in things that you can't always control.
It's a unique point and click / sort of idle game. The setting is very dark and mysterious. Your character walks around slowly, which is fitting since the goal of the game is to wait 400 days, plus it will let you soak in the nice music and visuals. Some tasks can be done by leaving the game idle for a few minutes. Other tasks require waiting longer amounts of time, such as a week or a month, but these events can be sped up by returning Home and making some improvements which will make time go by faster. I was easily able to achieve a 7x time multiplier at home after just 4-5 hours of play (no wiki required, I just explored a lot). At that point, you can close the game while your character is Home and you can wait an in-game week in 24 real hours, allowing access to new areas faster. It's definitely not a game for everyone. I saw it a few months ago (if not a year or more) on youtube but didn't feel like I was ready to buy it until today. It's one of those things that just keep coming back to you and you'll enjoy more if you wait for the right moment, which I thought was the perfect fit with the theme of the game. I don't recommend this as an impulse purchase because you will inevitably get bored of it and forget about it, missing out on the content since the timer keeps going even while you're not playing. I recommend letting the idea of playing it slow burn in your mind and if it stays there for a long time, it means you are ready for it.
This game is strange. Strange in the way that I will play it some time later in my life and I will understand it more. I liked it.
i thought the hall of infinity was a big waste of time.....two hours later i got the magic light ring...totes worth it
Um belo jogo, joguei na quarentena em 2020/21 e foi o máximo.
Uma experiencia perfeita !
you can read mobey dick yes the book all of it i have no clue why a person would read all of it but hey who knows
10/10
Very excited to see how the game is going to play out. Definitly already fallen in love with it.
good game, but don't end it unless you 100% complete it because you can't replay it (technically you can but it's highly not recommended)
Didn't think I'd like it so much, but it's pretty cute. Glad people have taken the time to write some achievment guides cuz in-game explanation is a little lacking but it adds to the atmosphere so overall, it's interesting.
It's a truly special game that I recommend going into with as few spoilers as possible. I'll only be mentioning the core gameplay concept, which is waiting. You control perhaps the slowest character in video game history on his journey to serve as a living alarm clock for a king. Your task is to wait 400 real-life days and wake him.
Most people will be able to tell if they have the patience to play a game like this within the 2-hour refund threshold, but if you're diligent, It is a genuinely unforgettable experience.
I'll avoid saying anything more to avoid spoilers, but I do have a suggestion to all those who play that really made the game click for me: hand-drawing a map of the world as you explore it. Not only does this help you navigate the labyrinthine tunnels of the underground, but it also fills the travel time. Your character is so slow that you can draw his real-time path. It effectively adds an extra gameplay element, making your journey more full, less frustrating, and more rewarding. I can't draw at all, really, but I highly recommend giving this a try.
Speedrunners hate this game and I love it. Picture if you will, a frail shadow of a creature, trudging slowly from room to empty room. No aim beyond watching the long days pass. The drip of water, the echo of soft music. Time becomes a tangible thing, cold and suffocating. They dream of grass, of sky, of sun…
It’s hard to think how Studio Seufz could have grasped the pestilential zeitgeist more firmly than with The Longing, their point-and-click boredom simulator. What seemed unimaginable only a few months ago – whole populations restricted to their homes – is now daily life and The Longing, a game about loneliness and interminable waiting, feels almost too close for comfort.
As a game, The Longing is almost absurdly simple. Playing as a small, Gollum-like character called the Shade, you must wander the caverns where you live for 400 days. At this point, the king of your underground home will awaken and, assumedly, your caretaking tasks will be complete. How you pass the time is up to you. If you leave the Shade alone it will simply sleep but chose to take control – left mouse button to walk, right mouse to interact with the world – and you can start to explore the otherwise-empty corridors, tunnels and more unusual spaces of the Shade’s environment.
The Shade is an unhurried character who walks slowly – the soft slapping of their bare feet on rock becomes strangely soporific very quickly – and it takes some time to actually reach anywhere of interest, “interest” being a rather vague concept in The Longing. Finding a scrap of paper, let alone a lump of coal which you might use to draw on that paper, becomes a major event. The discovery of a book – one of the many real-life books, like Moby Dick or Thus Spoke Zarathustra, that can be found and read in-game – is almost heart-stopping. Time, even as it ticks away from the ever-present counter at the top of the screen, begins to feel impossibly vast.
Eventually, though, you reach the edges of the Shade’s domain and mine shafts become dead-ends or stairways have crumbled away, leaving impassable gaps.
So you do the only thing left to you. Wait. Perhaps start to gather the mushrooms and moss that grow in the darker caverns. Read books. Sit and stare at the wall. Close your eyes.
Until even the environment begins to suffer the ravages of time; the mine workings collapse and an ancient stalactite drops to bridge the stairway. New paths to wander. New dead-ends revealed.
It’s hard to call The Longing a game. There isn’t much to do and, in all honesty, it’s as much fun as walking a sprite slowly from room to room can ever be. Yet it’s also something quite beautiful. Aesthetically, the hand-drawn backgrounds and the Shade itself are delightfully reminiscent of children’s fairy tales; I’m reminded of The Moomins and Eyvind Earle’s background landscapes for the darker Disney films. The soundtrack of ambient drones and minimal Dungeon Synth from the likes of Erang and Spectral Kingdom fits perfectly and, through its use of looping melodies, adds to the curiously somnambulant mindset The Longing creates in its players.
Of most interest to me, however, is how The Longing questions what it even is to be a game. You can, by all accounts, complete The Longing simply by starting it and then closing it down. Time passes for the Shade even if the player chooses not to experience it and, once 400 days are over, the Shade’s work will be done. The Longing, in fact, is as much of a game as the players wants it to be. Beyond playing the game in its most basic state – clicking the “walk to a random place” button and letting the Shade wander wherever it will – a number of communities have sprung up to solve the many subtle puzzles in the game and create background lore from hints found around the game-world. The Longing, if it is a game at all, is an ambient game in the purest sense.
Brian Eno, in his liner notes for the Ambient 1: Music for Airports album, stated that “whereas the extant canned music companies proceed from the basis of regularising environments by blanketing their acoustic and atmospheric idiosyncrasies, Ambient Music is intended to enhance these. Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities.
Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think”. Which is precisely what The Longing does; it is the precise opposite of the constant stimulus of games like Call of Duty in that rather than creating sensation, it creates a space for sensation to happen within. I’ve sat for more time than I can think is sensible, simply listening to the drip of water or a particularly haunting piece of the soundtrack as the Shade sleeps on the floor. Is this a game? Does it matter?
Whether this experience will last or The Longing is simply an interesting idea, a way for a developer to experiment with an unusual mechanic, will take me just over another 389 days to find out. Yet even if the game does start to pale with time there is, perhaps most importantly, something quietly joyful in spending time with the Shade. It is never gloomy nor despondent, even when waking from dreams of death, but finds quiet, childlike pleasure in discovering a different-coloured crystal or a new type of mushroom. And it’s hard not to share in some of that pleasure.
Verdict: 9/10
I am emotionally attached to this Shade and I want the absolute best in life for him.
Doesn't quite take 400 real days though if you actually play the game, which is fine, but I was prepared for it and now I'm on day 260 and it's only been 3 weeks and I'm kinda sad xD
What a game.
Worth playing if you have the patience to play it. It's not like any other games.
I love this game so much. It's better if you don't look up anything (except for wait times) and just walk around and explore. Every single time I log on, I'm finding something new.
played for 3 hours
forgot about the game
almost 2 years later
redownload game and play
win
no but seriously im gonna restart and try again and this time im actually gonna remember to play
good game
其实某种程度上算是一种对时间的投资 玩家可以试着在这四百天内和这个游戏一起发生变化 学习累了进游戏看看书也挺不错的 也很适合把游戏挂着听BGM学习
I bought this game because I heard the central mechanic was to sit around and wait, which sounded so ridiculous to me I had to try it. Fortunately the game makes this mechanic pretty interesting, and it can even be fun sometimes in its own weird way. The art and sound design are also both excellent. My only complaint is that I ran out of things to do pretty early on, but I didn't mind since time can be sped up significantly so the game doesn't take anywhere close to 400 days to complete .
Absolute banger game, especially fantastic if you're having patience issues.
boring but in a good way. very charming
I enjoy logging in to just see what, if anything, has changed as i wander the dark waiting for day 400.
Whenever the shade sits down and reads, I like to read with him and pretend we're in a little book club together.
Unique concept that really stands out. The right balance of teaching you patience without being completely obnoxious.
The game is very slow (like almost too slow) but for some reason I really enjoy that. It's so cozy and beautiful, better than I expected. Really recommend!
cave goblin: check
lonelyness: check;-;
play time: check check CHECK!!!!!!!!
I will admit that to begin with i did enjoy this game. I was intrigued by the timer countdown and enjoyed just sitting and reading the real books as time slowly passed in the shades home. There are things to do in the world, like explore and collect more books, and some locations are time locked so that you cant get to everywhere immediately.
The problem comes with the fact that you are basically finished with the game by approximately day 50. You will have every book and will have explored everywhere. There will be no incentive to reopen the game until the timer runs out at this point, making the timer basically irrelevant beyond that point. You just put the shade to bed and close the game for a month, reopen it and then finish the game. Defeats the purpose a bit when almost a year of the longings days will be spent in bed and forgotten about by 99% of completing players, and for that reason the whole theme of longing is kind of lost on me. You dont really care by the time that point comes.
Love - Especially having him chilling, while i go and do things. Love and more love, love my little depressed dude
Only one complaint ; That time can pass faster. I dont like it, i would much prefer that the 400 days ARE 400 days.
I've heard the developer describe this game as a detox for the high-energy stimulation we get from most games nowadays. That's an excellent description. I love this game.
its very calming and slow which i find nice just started but i enjoy it so far
This is a cute introspective game. Shade is an endearing character that you can't help but try to do what you can to get that smile on his face. Waiting is the strategy in this game.
The Longing? More like The PEAKing
After years of playing the prologue (waiting to buy the game), I can finally start playing with my shade friend!
While my play time is absolute rookie numbers in the grand scheme of things, this game has been one of the most profound and meditative experiences I've had as of late. I ran out of meds and this has affected me by a lot when it comes to my mental state and anxiety management. Not saying that this game is essentially a replacement for those, but I can't doubt that having the humble little shade do tasks at their own pace alongside me is comforting. Its a lovely reminder to not rush things and that a lot can be done in such relatively little time, including being mindful of things.
This is the only game that makes me say "I can wait to finish it"
one of my favorite gaming experiences ever and one that really encapsulates the time in which it came out. i've played it more than once but i wish i could experience it for the first time again. 10/10 patience, compassion and hope
Very nice, very slowpaced, love it!!!!
Checking in on my little shade every other day has become something I look forward too. I want to know how he is doing, if he finished a book while I was away and if there is anything new to discover.
If you like games that make you feel things, that are about the experience not the win, I recommend this one.
I have ADHD, and when I started the game, I was driven a tiny bit insane by his slow pace haha. I have settled into the feel of the game, it's now a quiet place to calm my mind or something to have running while I do other tasks and then check in to see what my shade has found.
This game is so awesome, it has cool animation and lots of places to discover and explore.
i did go through a time when it was a lil boring because i had to wait for a few things to happen, but besides that i really love this game.
animation and lore is also awesome!
Game is really fun so far, relaxing and so slowly paced to enjoy, will continue exploring, much time is ahead
A game about waiting. Such a unique concept and I am genuinely impressed so far.
My little guy already has some running water, a few books, a cosy fire and a musical instrument. We have explored the caves a lot in those 4 hours and I have found a few things I needed to pen down in my irl planner so I can get back to it on time.
On one hand, the game is VERY SLOW. And obviously by design. The game's purpose is for you to slow down and be more mindful and it works if you're open to it.
It checks if you cheat, so no mods to make the shade walk faster. Just Adjust to their pace and let's see how far we can get together.
This is a game for the very patient. Probably find something else to do while you play, like knit, or watch a movie. Still, I am quite fond of the Shade and I've enjoyed exploring the tunnels and improving my tiny cave home.
Interesting experience.
Less an action focused explosion filled spectacle but a piece of art that gets you reflecting and thinking.
Can't play a single player game without internet connection. 0/999
My prof. saw me playing this in class and when I told him about it he said he'd have to check it out and now before every class he tells me excitedly about all the new features he discovered.
Me, waiting 12 real life hours for a mushroom to grow and then accidentally eating it. I love this game. Why do I love this game? Oh, right, because I'm the shade Irl.
I feel somewhat betrayed by the end of the game. I think the game is a very unique experience and a work of art, and I will be replaying it. With that said... I feel so extremely let down. I seemingly did all of the things that were encouraged only to be left feeling extremely hollow at the end. I do still recommend the game, but I encourage people to think and explore for themselves and not to expect everything to go "well" because you "did everything seemingly right". There isn't really a "right" or "wrong", just different things (much like life). I encourage you to explore as much as possible and decide how to spend the 400 days wisely.
Man. Since i don't know how long since i played this game. I still feel like i have a friend in here. Getting bored, needing company. Hate you guys for making the game this way. Love you for a masterpiece.
A game like no other I have ever played. The little shade is so endearing you want to hang out with him. It's a bit like an interactive aquarium, you want to be absorbed in it, in spite of not much happening.
It's good. Definitely not for everyone, but I liked it. Was quite sad when it was finally time for the longing to end.
Like slow-cooked food, The Longing offer a slow gaming experience with great atmosphere. Instead of stressing, take your time to explore the magical kingdom for up to 400 earth days.
bought on release. "played" 95 hours just for my save got corrupted, the dev responded but no resolution. 11/5/2024 im going to go for another play though, i wish i had sooner. ill update my review if i can recapture my interest. so much time has passed, im in a place in my life which is unreconizable from march 2020, i wish i has completed this game at some point.
This game is art. I've played through it twice (once on Nintendo Switch, and now a second time on Steam). If you have patience I would wholeheartedly recommend this game.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Studio Seufz |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 79 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 93% положительных (3355) |