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2020PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified92 % positive14.99 €

You play a small shade servant who must wait 400 real-time days for his king to awaken. You can spend the time exploring a vast cave, reading, crafting or simply doing nothing, making it an unusual, meditative experiment about patience and solitude.

  • Emotional impact
  • Lots to discover
  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Fantasy setting
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Longing special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Book of Hours

90 %Match

2023PC, Steam Deck verified89 % positive24.50 €

Brings what grabs you about The Longing: a cosy mood to unwind, a calm pace and lots to discover.

You tend a mysterious occult library in the mountains, reading arcane books, arranging cards and slowly uncovering secrets. There is no combat, just a calm, melancholy mood and the joy of discovery.

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Wytchwood

Fantasy setting

As an old witch you gather ingredients, brew spells and work through macabre fairytale requests in a hand-drawn, gothic and whimsical world. A calm crafting adventure with puzzle-like recipe chains and dark humor.

The Unfinished Swan

Emotional impact

You splatter paint across a blank white world to reveal shapes and spaces as you chase a swan through a surreal storybook kingdom. A short, inventive, fairy-tale experience built on discovery rather than combat.

Strange Antiquities

Cosy, great for unwinding

You run a shop of occult antiquities in the gloomy yet charming town of Undermere, identifying mysterious artefacts and using them to solve the townsfolk's strange problems. A relaxed puzzle adventure with a mystery atmosphere and a cat to pet.

Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth

Emotional impact

A gentle winter adventure in Moominvalley where you play as Moomintroll, exploring the cold season, solving light puzzles and meeting characters from Tove Jansson's stories. It favours soothing atmosphere over challenge.

Röki

Emotional impact

A fairytale point-and-click adventure in which Tove travels through a forgotten Scandinavian folklore world, solving puzzles and meeting strange creatures to save her family. Its hand-crafted look and emotional story define the experience.

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