The Long Journey Home Reviews

The Long Journey Home is ranked in the 23rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
68 / 100
May 31, 2017

A savage, sometimes frustrating space exploration game that succeeds because of beautiful design and a compelling universe.

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Leif Johnson
Top Critic
6.4 / 10.0
May 31, 2017

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 suffers for it.

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5.5 / 10.0
May 29, 2017

The Long Journey Home promises much more than its punishing gameplay can deliver on

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Unscored
May 30, 2017

There's not quite enough here to win me over completely, but there's more than enough to make the numerous trips I've made worthwhile, and part of the charm is in never knowing if there's anything left to discover.

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6 / 10
Sep 6, 2019

The procedurally-generated nature of each jump warrants countless replays – you’ll just have to deal with a game that’s often doing its best to scupper its own best characteristics.

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6 / 10.0
Oct 10, 2019

The Long Journey Home has some great ideas. But ultimately it is a victim of its grand ambition. Repetitive, often frustrating gameplay further mar the experience.

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6.5 / 10.0
Jun 8, 2017

Daedalic has created a very brave space roguelike that features strategy elements and a huge universe to keep us in front of our screens.

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54 / 100
Oct 2, 2019

The Long Journey Home is bound to drift to the far left side of my Switch home screen, but I hope it’s not forever. I will keep my eyes peeled for an announcement promising “drastic changes.” In the meantime, I will dream of a better game.

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6 / 10.0
Jun 2, 2017

The Long Journey Home is a roguelike that tries to do things differently but it still fails to become accessible enough to a wider audience. While there are some interesting mechanics and features, the bad controls for both ship and lander and the lack of precise information will put more than a few players off.

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8 / 10.0
May 29, 2017

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.

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7 / 10
Jun 20, 2017

The Long Journey Home is a nice spatial game that suffers repetition.

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8 / 10.0
May 29, 2017

The Long Journey Home is an interesting exploration game that succeeds in a lot of ways, but never really seems to shine.

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4.4 / 5.0
Jun 7, 2017

Space the final frontier... this is the attempt to return from that frontier.

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6.5 / 10.0
Jul 1, 2017

The space adventure of The Long Journey Home it's hard, a journey into the galaxies that requires a lot of patience. Not a bad game, but not for everyone.

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4 / 10.0
May 29, 2017

More like Wasted Journey

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Dec 12, 2018

If you’re looking for an strange little alternative to No Man’s Sky then look no further than The Long Journey Home

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7 / 10
May 29, 2017

I spent many moments cursing its name in frustrating due to consistently dying. However, the game has grown on me, and I am excited to take different paths and play different ways. Fairly priced, The Long Journey Home provides some comedic relief in a dire and stressful time. The game's atmosphere is beautiful and the exploration into the game provides a vast amount of space adventure.

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7.5 / 10.0
Jun 14, 2017

It's slow moving, but that's mainly because you're trying to conserve fuel. If you're awful at resource management, then you'll find The Long Journey Home takes longer than it should. There's quite a bit to do and see, and kill, but if you want a time sink then this will be right up your alley.

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Olivia Falk
Top Critic
4 / 10
Jul 13, 2017

The Long Journey Home is a painful war of attrition. It feels at odds with itself: it wants to incorporate randomization to encourage replayability, yet that randomization makes the critical resource-management components even more frustrating. It could have seriously benefitted from some restraint on the part of the developers; if fewer systems were left up to pure chance, this could have been an expansive, exciting new exploration game. Instead, it's an overpriced curiosity that buries some great ideas under a planet-sized mound of bad decisions.

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7 / 10.0
Jun 29, 2017

The Long Journey Home on paper is a game that is very much for me. It is a game about the exploring space, seeking out new life and interacting with fascinating civilizations but the fact that it is a rogue-like takes away from all that.

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