The Long Journey Home

wasnt even worth the 80% off prize more like a mobile 2 d game. the game is just lunar lander side scroller with awfull controls and some text menus posing as adventure supposedly a 40 euro aaa game? make a mental note never to buy from daedalic ent. games ever again apperently they prefer to pay youtubers then game devs, avoid like the plague . looked at gogs refund, but you cant get a refund once you tried it for the first time so bad this game is.

You start off with the option to go through the tutorial, which fortunately I did. There you discover that the keyboard is unpractical to control your ship, and hit a bug right off the start; actually, the first orbit around Earth (while looking at the interface) shifted on its own (no thrust applied) and the ship bounced off Earth and moved away at random... Travel mechanics could have been ok, if celestial bodies did not travel so unrealistically fast. There is a display for an ideal path, but this is like playing an arcade game on steroids.. There is no pause, no option to slow down time, no save feature to attempt to travel by trials and errors. I give 1 point because the review cannot be validated with 0....

This game is mostly about fighting with the controller to get your ship or lander to go where you want it to go. Also most interaction with the world is just text on the screen. For the current price this game is very disappointing.

At all times you will be hanging by a thread, any of your actions can at any moment and in disaster - with no recovery or second chances. Constant tedious grind to gather fuel with ever-present danger of losing the lander. Repair kits are few and far between. Alliances are convoluted with no why to track who wants what.

It doesn't take terribly long to tire of this game, because it simply lacks variety and interest. It almost seems like it will be good. Variety of choices to set out with, big universe to explore, lots of random replayability, multiple alien encounters, etc etc. But what happens with all those great ideas is a mediocre implementation and poor follow through with random failure. It turns into a wash rinse repeat of the same thing over and over: make a jump to a decent system, make a drop to get resources. And that's it. You don't really get to appreciate the few places they actually put graphics, boggle at how such a minimalist game can use 11gb of drive space, tire of bland pointless chats with alien races, puzzle at seemingly random messages from species, fume at the badly implemented physics of piloting, and lament that the special missions and encounter outcomes are so woefully unremarkable you're still bored after 30 min. Definitely not worth the price, even on deep sale. It feels like a 500mb game from 25 years ago that was badly done.