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The Longing

In utter loneliness, miles below the surface, it is your task to... wait. For 400 days... in real-time.

70 5 March 2020

The Longing is an adventure developed by Studio Seufz, released 5 March 2020 on Nintendo Switch, Android, Linux and Mac.

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What The Longing is

The Longing is an adventure game developed by Studio Seufz and released in 2020. It was published by Application Systems Heidelberg. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Longing 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 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Longing launched on 5 March 2020, within three weeks of Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Black Mesa. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Black Mesa.

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When did The Longing come out?
The Longing was released on 5 March 2020 for Nintendo Switch, Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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