Steam's Most Intriguing Slow-Burn Adventure Game Takes 400 Real-World Days to Finish

Rebecca is a scientist-turned-storyteller and professional ghostwriter who enjoys forgetting common English words and making up her own in their stead. She's probably stuck between two basically-the-same dialogue options in a Larian game as you read this (there's so much at stake, obviously!!!). Rebecca currently lives with two gigantic puppies, a toddler consistently LARPing as Lara Croft, and her Halo-playing husband in Detroit, MI. You can find her past work at Zelda Universe and Verily Magazine. Time, patience, and a very lonely goblin. Somewhere on your hard drive, a small, wide-eyed creature named Shade will keep standing alone in the dark, waiting on a ticking timer to go down, whether you’re there, watching as well, or not. After you download The Longing, this will be your fate (and Shade’s) for over one real-time calendar year. Shade serves an underground king who has fallen into a 400-day sleep to recover his lost strength. Shade’s only job, and his entire reason for existing, is to wake the king when the time comes. He’s a sentient alarm clock, and now, so are you. In The Longing, an adventure/idle game from Studio Seufz, as your king sleeps peacefully, you’ll spend much

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