The Longest Journey
Worth it · RPG · 2007
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 17.7h
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Windows only.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was January 2013. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 70 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Dreamfall Chapters ($24.99, scores 62) and King's Quest (free, scores 79).
Of the 401 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 279 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A jewel in my Steam library. Easily one of the best adventure games ever created. If you love good story telling and can overlook dated graphics, this is absolutley worth playing.
The questing part could be hard and some of the narrative choices are weird, but overall is one of the greatest games within the genre. It's got that catchy visual juice and has an immense soul. My bet is that it actually got really close when tried to predict the future. I could see that coming upon us.
This is one of the most compelling and well written stories ever told, if your on steam deck clean install, and use Proton 8.0-5, when the white box pops up bring up the keyboard and press Y for yes or N for no. Dont miss out on this classic just because your on steam deck
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Longest Journey scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/6310/the-longest-journeyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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