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The Longing

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The Longing
The Longing cover
Developers
Studio Seufz
Publishers
Application Systems Heidelberg
Engines
Former Unity 5[Note 1]
Unity 2018[Note 2]
Release dates
Windows March 5, 2020
macOS (OS X) March 5, 2020
Linux March 5, 2020
Reception
Metacritic 79
OpenCritic 76
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Persistent
Perspectives Side view
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Idle
Themes Fantasy
The Longing on HowLongToBeat
The Longing on IGDB
The Longing on MobyGames

The Longing is a singleplayer side view adventure and idle game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Studio Seufz\The Longing\
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Studio Seufz\The Longing\saveData.txt
macOS (OS X)
Linux .config/unity3d/Studio Seufz/The Longing

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game title bar settings.
In-game title bar settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Stretches horizontally in fullscreen. 21:9 resolutions not available in options.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

In-game controls.
In-game controls.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Able to mute music or all game sounds. No sliders - binary choice.
Surround sound
Stereo.[3]
Subtitles
No spoken audio, only text.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

In-game language selection.
In-game language selection.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
In-game books are only available in English.[4]
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Korean
Japanese
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Input InControl

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.9
Processor (CPU) 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 16.04, SteamOS
Processor (CPU) 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) 1 GB of VRAM


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 5.6.5p3[1]
  2. Unity engine build: 2018.4.36f1[2]

References

  1. Verified by User:Faalagorn on 2020-03-07
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2023-04-02
  3. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2020-03-22
    Tested with Special K.
  4. THE LONGING on Steam - last accessed on 2020-03-22
    "The little Shade in the game finds ONLY English books for now."