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The Long Journey Home is a space exploration video game by Daedalic Entertainment.

The Long Journey Home
Developer(s)	Daedalic Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Daedalic Entertainment
Writer(s)	Richard Cobbett[1]
Platform(s)	macOS, Windows, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release	WW: May 30, 2017
Genre(s)	adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Plot

The player controls the crew of Earth's first jump-capable starship. The game begins after a jump to Alpha Centauri goes wrong, leaving the misfit crew stranded on the far end of the galaxy.[2] As the crew journeys back home, they meet aliens who offer them various quests.[1]

Features

The goal of the game is to return home after being lost in space.[2] The player navigates a procedurally generated universe,[3] which is randomized to make the experience of exploring more open-ended and diverse.[4]

The physics of ship movement are realistic, as the player has to use gravitational slingshot to navigate.[1] There is a steep learning curve to be proficient to travel.[1][5]

The player will encounter aliens who offer them quests. The player can choose to help, ignore, attack, or even betray the quest-giver.[2] For example, when an alien asks a player to transport a box, the player can decide to open the box and steal what's inside of it.[3] Each alien has their own culture, which creates challenges around cultural misunderstanding.[5]

Development

Daedalic was a game studio known for point-and-click adventure games with a narrative focus.[4] The team has described the game as a roguelike space role-playing game, drawing its main inspiration from Star Control II and Starflight.[2] Where Star Control II described many aspects of the alien cultures through dialog, writer Richard Cobbett pushed to improve on this by making this culture more visible and interactive.[2]

The team strived to maximize player choice, allowing them to break or ignore quests, or attack even friendly encounters.[2] Quests were designed to encourage forward momentum, and also illustrate the different alien cultures and personalities.[3] This led to what Cobbett described as "a lot of writing", which was organized in spreadsheets using proprietary tools.[3] A goal for the game's writing was to create feelings of loneliness, vulnerability, and desperation.[2]

Initially, the game featured a trade system, but this was simplified in favor of credits.[2] A month after the game's release, The Long Journey Home was updated with an easier story mode.[6]

Reception

The reception to The Long Journey Home has been mixed. Its aggregate Metacritic score is 68/100.[7] Adam Smith of Rock Paper Shotgun compared the game favorably to the openness of No Man's Sky with the short minigames of Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, but felt that there was "not quite enough here to win me over completely".[8] Polygon, giving the game a 55% rating, explained that it was "extraordinarily difficult to navigate" and "infuriating," concluding that the game had failed to live up to the promise of a "truly narrative-driven roguelike."[9] Giving the game a 6/10, PC Games N praised the characters and setting, but criticized the different minigames as tedious.[10] IGN, which gave the game a 6.4, complained of "the weight of frustrating and tedious minigames" that were "often unfair."[11] Kotaku dismissed the game as built upon "a poorly-implemented version" of Lunar Lander, "an infuriating experience" and "a poorly thought-out homage."[12]

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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[de] The Long Journey Home

The Long Journey Home ist eine Weltraum-Erkundungssimulation mit Roguelike-Elementen von Daedalic Entertainment für Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4 und Xbox One. Es ist das erste veröffentlichte Spiel von Daedalics Studio West in Düsseldorf und kam erstmals im Mai 2017 auf den Markt.

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- [en] The Long Journey Home (video game)

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[ru] The Long Journey Home

The Long Journey Home (с англ. — «Долгий путь домой») — компьютерная игра в жанре приключенческого боевика, разработанная и изданная Daedalic Entertainment для ОС Windows и macOS в 2017 году.

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