The Long Return is an adventure developed by Max Nielsen, released 2 October 2019 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Long Return is
The Long Return is an adventure game developed by Max Nielsen and released in 2019. It was published by Ultimate Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A beautiful third-person puzzle adventure game telling the story of an orphaned cub that retraces his steps from the last journey he took with his mother. Along the way you will be challenged by fun and unique puzzles, explore amazing scenery full of life, and relive past memories of your mother.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Long Return 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 2019 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
The Long Return launched on 2 October 2019, within three weeks of Disco Elysium, Borderlands 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Disco Elysium, Borderlands 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019), The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
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