The Long Journey Home

A punishing resource and repair system gets in the way of The Long Journey Home's characterful exploration.

When The Long Journey Home focuses on interactions with a diverse and entertaining cast of aliens across its procedurally generated star systems, it's possible to find a degree of wonder and personality that many roguelike seldom achieve. Unfortunately, such interactions take a back seat to a barrage of frustrating minigames with rewards that rarely match the risks. The experience as a whole suffe...

Disclosure: Richard Cobbett wrote the words and has a regular column on RPS that I edit most weeks. The fact that I have to look at so many of his words as part of my day-job and actually enjoyed playing a game that was stuffed with even more of them could probably be seen as a compliment.

The Long Journey Home is a roguelike sci-fi survival simulator fueled on hope and hopelessness. Bring them home, commander. But be ready to die a hundred deaths before that ever happens.

The Long Journey Home had so much promise but Daedalic forgot to make it playable. They focused on the big picture, on the huge epic universe, without realizing that it’s the small stuff that’s important. We like the look, the ideas, just not the implementation of any of it. Movement in space is frustrating and imprecise with the narrow field of vision and pathetic map ensuring that it’s when, not...

Games set in outer space always have a peculiar charm around them. Whether it's for the feel of adventure, or for the desire to discover if there's life out there, these type of games manage to keep players engaged even when they're not exactly the best games around. This is definitely the case of Daedalic's The Long Journey Home, a roguelike featuring plenty of interesting ideas and mechanics tha...

PC gamers could embark on The Long Journey Home last year, but now those on console can join them. RPGamer sees whether it can bring its crew safely back from the cold reaches of space.

All in all, The Long Journey Home is an incredibly complex game. It’s controls take the patience of a saint in order to get used to. Its core, intriguing elements are weighed down by the repetitive and frustrating mini-games you are forced to slog through. The Long Journey Home isn’t a bad game by any stretch – underneath all that is a story that yearns to be told, and is worth sitting through. Un...