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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest…

62 17 April 2006

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is an adventure developed by Funcom, released 17 April 2006 on Xbox 360, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 13.5 hrs to finish.

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What Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is an adventure game developed by Funcom and released in 2006. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on Xbox 360, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Shark 3D.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ten years past the inexplicable technological collapse of 2209, in a renewedly rallying future world, twenty-year-old Zoë must set out for a journey to help a friend expose an ultimate conspiracy that may be connected with the recurring visions she have been seeing lately.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 3 points below the year average. Players rate it 72, 10 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 13.5 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz or AMD Sempron 2800+ or higher required. Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 3500+ Recommended, 512 MB RAM and 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 128 MB with latest drivers.. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB.

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What it launched against

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey launched on 17 April 2006, within three weeks of Ōkami, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All, OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast and Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Ōkami, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All, OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dreamfall: The Longest Journey yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey — frequently asked questions

When did Dreamfall: The Longest Journey come out?
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey was released on 17 April 2006 for Xbox 360, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Dreamfall: The Longest Journey?
At minimum, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey needs Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz or AMD Sempron 2800+ or higher required. Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 3500+ Recommended, 512 MB RAM, 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 128 MB with latest drivers. graphics, 7 GB free disk space of storage.
How long does it take to beat Dreamfall: The Longest Journey?
The main story of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey takes around 13.5 hrs.
How many GB is Dreamfall: The Longest Journey?
The PC version needs about 7 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("7 GB free disk space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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