The Longing

Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH

4.09

677 reviews

50,000+
Downloads

$4.99

A legendary slow idle-adventure where your task is to wait... for 400 days.

Not recently updated — last update was on 2023-12-20. This app may no longer be actively maintained.

About The Longing

The Longing is an adventure app developed by Application Systems Heidelberg Software GmbH.

Download Statistics

The Longing has been downloaded 80 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.1 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 adventure apps.

User Ratings

The Longing is rated 4.09 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 680 ratings.

App Information

The Longing costs $4.99 to download. The last update was on December 20, 2023.

Technical Requirements

The app has a content rating of Low Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play December 2023.

Description

The Longing 400 day game
In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.
Play as a lonely Shade, the last servant of a king who once ruled an underground kingdom. The king's powers have faded and he falls asleep for 400 days to regain his might. It is your duty to stay in the earthen palace until he awakens.
As soon as you start, the game inevitably counts down the 400 days - even when you stop playing and exit the game.
It is now up to you to decide what to do with your solitary existence beneath the soil. Don't stress yourself, you have plenty of time.

Choose your playing style
Start the game and simply come back after 400 days to see how it ends. You actually don't have to play the game at all. But the Shade will be even more lonely without you.
Or explore the caves and collect items for your comfortable underground living room. Just send the Shade to take a stroll - the walking speed is slow, but luckily there is no need to hurry.
Read tons of classic literature from Nietzsche to Moby Dick right in the game - or at least have the shade read them. After all, time goes by faster if you learn to keep your mind occupied.
Ignore the king's commands and advance to the outer regions the cave. It will be a long and dangerous journey into darkness...

Features
• Slow exploration of a vast, hand-drawn cave.
• Atmospheric Dungeon Synth soundtrack.
• Various endings.
• Lots of well hidden secrets.
• Time-based puzzles.
• A lonely but cute protagonist.

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More data about The Longing

Price	$4.99
Total downloads	80 thousand
Recent downloads	2.1 thousand
Rating	4.09 based on 680 ratings
Ranking	Highly ranked
Version	N/A
APK size	N/A
Number of libraries	?
Maturity	Low Maturity
Ads	NO ads

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The Longing has been downloaded 80 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 69 downloads per day.

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Comments on The Longing for Android

★★★★☆ Dinosaur Isrex · Sep 8, 2025

This is a really good game, It does take 400 real life days to complete so the other reviews saying it's "slow" obviously it's supposed to, it's a waiting game, but you need patience to play this, especially since the shade walks super freaking slow lol

★★★★★ Flinch Fu · Feb 19, 2026

Five. This is intriguing and philosophically relatable. It dawned on me when a stalactite finally fell after several days... I wonder if there's an animation for it happening (my imagination wants to believe there is) and how rare it would be to actually be there and see that animation at that exact moment. It's a game about neglect or patience. You choose. A month and a year of waiting in real time for the ending... with or without you.

★☆☆☆☆ A K · Apr 26, 2025

Extremely slow. Download once you're in a retirement home, so you can pass time doing absolutely nothing.

★★☆☆☆ Brandon May · Apr 22, 2025

I'm 100% convinced I have no idea the point of this game. Which makes a negative review difficult. Problem is, as a developer you have to understand that your audience hasn't a clue about your game starting out. Which, confusion may well be the point of the game. I came back to this game so many times and just couldn't... figure it out. So for that alone, I have to give the developers a 1, but I'll give the creative process a 3. For a total of 2 stars.

Google Play Rankings for The Longing

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Rank	Country	Category	List
32	United States	Adventure	Top Paid
71	Austria	Adventure	Top Paid
71	Switzerland	Adventure	Top Paid
71	Indonesia	Adventure	Top Paid
71	Netherlands	Adventure	Top Paid
71	Slovakia	Adventure	Top Paid
72	India	Adventure	Top Paid
72	Norway	Adventure	Top Paid
73	Czech Republic	Adventure	Top Paid
73	Poland	Adventure	Top Paid

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