THE LONGING
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 16.3h
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1024MB VRAM, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $10.49. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 75 in the 7 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beholder: Conductor ($4.19, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance ($9.99, scores 65).
79 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 568 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
16.3 hours to finish it, 51 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
53% start to 35% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
42 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 00:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A truly one-of-a-kind game. With it's truly glacial pacing, it's not for everyone. However, if you have the patience and curiosity for it, you might find yourself surprised with how invested you can get as the world opens up to you, bit by bit. As far as the concept goes, I'd say the execution is great. Puzzles aren't a huge focus in this game but they're well made and pretty subtle at times It lives up to the...
It's very hard to actually recommend this game, but I feel like not recommending it would be considered a negative review, which I don't want to give either. This is an exploration game of choice and the pace is very very slow. So if you're looking for a point and click game with puzzles or a lot to do, this is definitely not what you're looking for. The gameplay is mostly walking and waiting. You will find things...
I would have probably played this game a lot longer, but it would keep him in his longing at the same time. I will be thinking about him for the rest of my life :)
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
THE LONGING scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/893850/the-longingReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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