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"How's The Longing"
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The Longing is a game about a little guy in a cave
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the king of the mountain has gone to sleep for 400 days
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you must wake him up once the time has passed
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until then you have no instructions
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other than to not leave the caves
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but the caves are vast
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and you must find ways of improving your living situation
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to pass the time faster
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I have found the Halls of Eternity
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time does not pass here
time does not pass here
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but I found some curtains
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Are they nice?
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they match my armchair
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I looked up the mechanics of the halls of eternity
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as you walk to the right, you might discover an item every 60 seconds of walking
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a few items are unique, but you can keep finding sheets of paper infinitely
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but
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however long you walk to the right
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you have to walk all the way back to the left to get back out
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OK this is enough of eternity
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I think I'll go home and read moby dick
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well, I successfully passed about 2 hours
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only 399 days and 22 hours to go
dragon time
oh that sounds nice
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the timer keeps ticking while offline
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so in theory you could get... an ending by just
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firing up the game
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putting it down for a year and change
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then opening it and going to wake up the king
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oh, real time
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sort of - upgrades to your home make time pass faster
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as does doing stuff
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reading any page of a book for the first time eats up a minute
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that does sound neat
Makimerry🤶
Question. Would you consider this suitable for true idle play when you are legitimately doing something else and just reach over to click a few buttons once every fifteen minutes, or is it better if you have the game in your hands the whole time? You mention walking around for several minutes for example, was that manually controlled?
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honestly I would
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er, I'd consider it to be good for both
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you can't miss things due to time out unless the game takes you 400 days and possibly even then
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regarding walking around - the protag is very slow but you can also set like waypoints
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and you click one and he'll just walk slowly all the way there
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and you can tab away while you wait
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as we speak, my guy is reading moby dick, at one page per minute, in realtime
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so he'll probably be done when I fire the game up tomorrow
Makimerry🤶
Thank you so much...! I'll probably get it for PC then rather than switch. Idle play is my lifeblood and there'd be less of a memory management concern