THE LONGING

Studio Seufz · Application Systems Heidelberg

Released: Mar 5, 2020
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Last updated: 16 Sep 2026, 05:21 GMT

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19 May 2026Developer post
New Studio Seufz game
Dear inhabitants of the caves, here's Anselm, creator of The Longing. As some of you might already know, The Longing took me over 4 years to make. After it was finished, I was sure that the next project would turn out much smoother... in a way I was right, but also very wrong. Lo
09 Jul 2024Developer post
A Shade Plushie Returns + New Pins
Dear inhabitants of the caves, Due to high demand for the original plushie, Makeship was kind enough to bring it back, again for a limited time only. They also started a campaign for new enamel pins of the Shade. Personally, I like the small pin of the Shade very much! The shippi
15 Jun 2024Developer post
Maintenance Update Completed
Dear cave inhabitants, The maintenance update that was previously accessible only via the beta branch is now available to all players. It mainly consists of small bug fixes accumulated over the last few years. We have also improved the anti-cheat system and removed the online-onl
22 Apr 2024Developer post
Maintenance Update
Dear cave inhabitants, it has been some time since we released a maintenance update, for testing is always a complicated affair with this game. There have been a lot of small bug fixes accumulated over the last years, especially since the game was released for mobile devices and
09 Feb 2024Developer post
Upcoming Studio Seufz game
Hello folks, as many of you have noticed, Studio Seufz has been working on a new game for a few years now. For anyone interested, I'll talk a bit about what I and the studio have been up to: First off, The Longing was a very personal project of mine, where I handled all the game
03 Jan 2024Developer post
New Shade Plushie
Dear inhabitants of the caves, I received many demands to make a new plushie. Today is the day! The new one is almost the same as the old plushie, with one major change: It's the happy version of the Shade, sporting its trademark smile. Alternatively, if you already own the previ
27 Jan 2023Developer post
A Shade Plushie
Dear inhabitants of the caves, I received many demands for Longing merchandise over the years. We have now partnered with Canadian company Makeship to finally produce a Shade plushie! It will work a bit like a Kickstarter campaign: If enough people pre-order (200 pre orders are n
08 Jul 2022Developer post
Full Steam Deck support and Polish translation
The Longing on Steam Deck! Great news: The Longing is now fully compatible with the gamepad of the Steam Deck and all necessary adjustments for font readability and playability have been made. The game can also be played with touch. Furthermore, a Polish translation was added to
13 Jun 2022Developer post
Game Update and Steam Trading Cards
It has been a while, since the Steam version of THE LONGING has received any updates. This was mainly due to the fact that the game was ported to other platforms, like the Nintendo Switch. When I first started making the game I used ancient technology like Unity 5, so our publish
It has been a while, since the Steam version of THE LONGING has received any updates. This was mainly due to the fact that the game was ported to other platforms, like the Nintendo Switch. When I first started making the game I used ancient technology like Unity 5, so our publisher ASH had the terrifying task to overhaul the game technically in many aspects, making it smoother to play and hopefully fit for the future on PC as well! To add something more fun to this update, I also decided to finally add trading cards, since they actually fit quite nicely with the waiting concept.
Here are all of the updates listed:

Controller support added. In case you always wanted to walk through caves with a joystick.
Small UI update for menues and the waypoint selection, since they didn't work with a controller before.
Japanese added as a new language. After all, we owe a lot to them.
1.5 GB reduction in file size due to better compression. This is also the main reason for the relatively big download size of the update, but it will actually save disk space on your machine.
Support of many different aspect ratios, like 4:3 or 16:10 and support of 4k full screen resolutions.
Steam Trading Cards, for the weary at heart.
Various bug fixes and probably new bugs as well.
Dreaming doesn't skip an extra hour any more to prevent lock-ins inside the hidden door.
Overall better performance.
This update will not change your experience with the game in any significant way, but it will fix some technical issues and hopefully make for a pleasant addition in combination with the trading cards.
So long!
Anselm
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22 Feb 2021Developer post
Digging the Earth Bundle
Digging the Earth Bundle In The Longing, a Shade digs his way through an underground cavern labyrinth. He's taking his time. Why? Because he's got 400 days of real time to hand. Despite living in the 50th century, Henry (Mutropolis) is old-fashioned and prefers a good old trowel
Digging the Earth Bundle
In The Longing, a Shade digs his way through an underground cavern labyrinth. He's taking his time. Why? Because he's got 400 days of real time to hand.
Despite living in the 50th century, Henry (Mutropolis) is old-fashioned and prefers a good old trowel for his archaeological adventures. But rare treasures are not all he will dig up!
Buy the bundle here: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18084/Digging_the_Earth_Bundle/
Mutropolis has launched
MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned.
After five years of hard work by Bea and Pablo (Pirita Studio, Madrid) the new mystery point & click adventure Mutropolis finally has launched. Here are some reactions by the press the product has received:

one of the best adventure games that have appeared in recent years - 100/100 itc.ua, Yuri Melkov
An enjoyable adventure and a first class debut for Pirita Studio - 85/100 ragequit.gr, George Dembegiotis
Exciting detective story with great characters and lots of love for archaeology. - 75/100 4players.de, Maja Verfondern
Mutropolis is an absolute recommendation for any point-and-click lover. - 8/10 indieplanet.de, Christina Knauf
interesting puzzles, good humor and a good audio/visual setting 9/10 forum.przygodomania.pl, Urszula Kuchmistrz
a good choice for all fans of point-and-click and logic games 92/100 omegascopio.com.br, Julia Barcelos
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25 Nov 2020GamingOnLinux
340 or so days later and I am still lost in The Longing
Remember the unique mix of point and click adventuring with an idle game in The Longing? It's supposed to have taken people 400 days to finish. Read the full article here:
22 May 2020Developer post
The public library has opened
Book Converter After the release, we promised to have translations of the books and finally we have found a solution: Players can now upload and download custom books via the Steam Workshop of The Longing. This doesn't change the number of books in the game, but you can replace t
04 Apr 2020Developer post
Content Update and Soundtrack Release
Dear players, I am quite impressed with the reception of the game so far. When I started it in my cave back in 2014, I made it just for myself. But it's quite heartwarming to see so many people enjoying the game for what it is. As a result, I got motivated to add some more stuff
05 Mar 2020GamingOnLinux
The Longing is out today so you can begin your own 400 day adventure
The Longing is highly unusual, a game that takes 400 real-time days to come to a conclusion. As soon as you load it up, a timer will start counting down even when you're not in the game.
13 Jan 2020Developer post
Release Date and IGF-Nomination!
After a few hundred days of waiting, we finally have a release date for the game: It will be the 5th of March, which is in approximately 52 days. We are also proud to announce that the game has been nominated for an IGF Award in the "Nuovo" (innovation) category. Oh, and you can
13 Sep 2019Developer post
400-day anniversary and FAQ
Today marks the 400-day anniversary of this Steam page. A good date to post some news: First, we like to announce that THE LONGING now has a publisher , namely Application Systems Heidelberg ! This cooperation will result in more in-game languages (soon-to-be added), ports to Mac

Updates & announcements

The Longing on Steam Deck!

Digging the Earth Bundle

Mutropolis has launched