The Long Journey Home
The Long Journey Home combines the endless freedom of space with a new open questing system that always leaves you in command. Deliver the stranded Glukkt to his homeworld as he asks, or to your new slaver…
The Long Journey Home is an adventure developed by Daedalic Entertainment, released 30 May 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac. It currently starts at $0.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What The Long Journey Home is
The Long Journey Home is an adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Long Journey Home combines the endless freedom of space with a new open questing system that always leaves you in command. Deliver the stranded Glukkt to his homeworld as he asks, or to your new slaver friends? Attempt to make allies with everyone, or pin your hopes on the tougher races, and hope they never turn on you? Jump by jump, make hard decisions and live with the consequences, in a universe that is never the same twice.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 69 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Long Journey Home holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $0.99, that works out to about $0.06 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3 GHz Dual Core CPU, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 650 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 7790. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 16GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.99 at GOG, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Long Journey Home launched on 30 May 2017, within three weeks of Injustice 2, Tekken 7, RiME and WipEout Omega Collection. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Injustice 2, Tekken 7, RiME, WipEout Omega Collection.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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