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2020 · Point & Click · Walking Simulator · Idler

How long is:THE LONGING:?

20 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 6.5 hours and 45 hours

:THE LONGING: cover

:THE LONGING: among the 20 idle games here

The whole tier list
CPlayed tier

#15

of 20

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

50%
got past 2 hours
−11 on the kind's 61%
20%
past 20 hours
−3 on the kind's 23%
68%
launched it
−6 on the kind's 74%
40
libraries own it
1 in 62 of the 2,472 read here
:THE LONGING: ↓
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32% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Often bought, rarely played: 33% of the owners here never launched it, more than for 17 of 19 idle games.

Does :THE LONGING: hold up?

Holds steady

Holds up seal

At least 92% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 200 hours played.

Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.

Do the first two hours of :THE LONGING: tell you?

In the first two hours76%recommend it

After that94%recommend it

8 in 100 said no: 6 after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 20 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6.5 hours and 45 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 7,530 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It holds steady: between 93% and 96% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.

9% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 76% of those recommend it. After the window, 94% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 72% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 11 hours in.

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When would you get there?

20days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 20 hours on Thursday, December 3.

Half of its reviewers had played between 6.5 and 45 hours: Nov 20 to Dec 28 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

How far do players get in :THE LONGING:?

Launched it 100%

Earned its most common achievement 54%

Earned a typical achievement 32%

How this is counted

Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.

Is :THE LONGING: worth it?

Is :THE LONGING: worth it? Mostly.

  • Fair price

    About what a typical idle game charges: 75¢ an hour

  • Loved

    94% recommend it after the refund windowmost idle games: 91%

  • Often left unplayed

    67% of owners here have played itmost idle games: 86%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 20 hours come to 75¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of :THE LONGING: costs about what the typical one of 82 idle games here charges 66¢.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (idle games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play :THE LONGING: today?

On Android, Switch and PC

Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.

  1. todayPC2020
  2. todaySwitch2021
  3. todayAndroid2023
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines :THE LONGING: came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like :THE LONGING:?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like :THE LONGING:, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long :THE LONGING: would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with :THE LONGING:?

  • 1 in 605

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like :THE LONGING:

  1. 1

    Myst

    :THE LONGING:, but in VR, and a quarter of the hours

    Liked · 89%Games like Myst

  2. 2

    The Exit 8

    :THE LONGING:, but a psychological horror game, and a tenth of the hours

    Loved · 93%Games like The Exit 8

  3. 3

    Sable

    :THE LONGING:, but open world

    Liked · 86%Games like Sable

  4. 4

    The Council

    :THE LONGING:, but historical, and episodic

    Liked · 84%Games like The Council

  5. 5

    Marie's Room

    :THE LONGING:, but free to play, and a tenth of the hours

    Loved · 93%Games like Marie's Room

  6. 6

    Pentiment

    :THE LONGING:, but an investigation, and historical

    Loved · 95%Games like Pentiment

All 30 games like :THE LONGING:, and which you already own
How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from :THE LONGING:: a kind of game it is that :THE LONGING: is not, a feature its tags carry that :THE LONGING:'s barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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