The Longing is an indie point-and-click adventure idle video game, released on March 5, 2020 by Studio Seufz. The gameplay of The Longing revolves around a real-time countdown of 400 days as the player character, called a Shade, waits to awaken his king. Interaction with the world is slow-paced by design, with the Shade’s movement speed being significantly slow. The gameplay consists mostly of exploring caves, gathering resources to furnish the Shade’s home, and other time-wasting activities such as reading and drawing. Many aspects of the game are time-dependent, for instance, roadblocks which require the player to wait a certain amount of time before progressing. The game is intended to, at least in part, be played idly, enabled by features such as idle reading and a bookmark system, by which the player can direct the Shade to automatically walk to a previously saved location, his home, or randomly wander around.
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