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Limited Time Bundle Promotion

[h2]Idle Games Variety Bundle[/h2]
A celebration of the variety among idle games, which are sadly often not seen as "real" games. Check out how different the world of idle games can be and play these games or just watch how they play themselves and stare at them.

[h2]Cookie Clicker[/h2]
Cookie Clicker is a game about making an absurd amount of cookies. To help you in this endeavor, you will recruit a wide variety of helpful cookie makers, like friendly Grandmas, Farms, Factories, and otherworldly Portals.

[h2]The Longing[/h2]
An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.

[h2]Placid Plastic Duck Simulator[/h2]
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/34557

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 needed), the plushie will be produced. Else, everyone will get a refund.

The campaign will start today (Friday the 27th) and will run for three weeks. Time is ever fleeting, so is the Shade plushie. After the campaign ends, there will be no way to buy them anymore.

Here's the link to the shop:
https://shop.makeship.com/3H3OuQ4

Let's hope we can make it, or even get to 400 Shades!
Edit: We have over 400 orders already, so the Plush is definitely going to be made!

-Anselm

Below you can see some photographs of the plushie prototype:

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 the game. Big thanks to the fans Jakub (OD-Jake), Michał and Filip who have invested a lot of time to make that happen!



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 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

Digging the Earth Bundle

[h2]Digging the Earth Bundle[/h2]
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/

[h2]Mutropolis has launched[/h2]
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: