The Long Reach
At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it's a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.
The Long Reach is an adventure developed by Painted Black Games, released 14 March 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What The Long Reach is
The Long Reach is an adventure game developed by Painted Black Games and released in 2018. It was published by Merge Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it's a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Long Reach holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i3 2.6GHz, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000 or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
The Long Reach launched on 14 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Into the Breach. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Into the Breach.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Long Reach yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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