Games like THE LONGING
If THE LONGING is your kind of game, the closest matches are Legends of Savvarah: Children of the Sun, Diary: White and Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and hypnotic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →THE LONGING is an Indie adventure RPG by Studio Seufz, released in 2020 at $14.99 and verified on Steam Deck. Players engage with environmental crafting, idle progression, procedural exploration, and resource management as they navigate a subterranean setting. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, contemplative, and melancholic. Players highlight how the gameplay adapts to real-life rhythms and how crafting a cozy refuge for a shadowy companion becomes unexpectedly compelling. The game received a 92% positive rating from over 3,800 Steam reviews and a Metacritic score of 79. Players note that time feels like a presence rather than a resource, and that this poetic melancholy lingers long after playing.
About THE LONGING: 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.
Players who liked THE LONGING also play
Steam players who put hours into THE LONGING also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Legends of Savvarah: Children of the Sun
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with THE LONGING.
Top pick for THE LONGING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
A fantasy interactive story (visual novel) where the mysteries of ancient gods, enigmas of bygone eras, magic, and the complex relationships between various beings are intricately woven together.
Diary: White
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for THE LONGING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
Diary: White is a 2D psychological horror adventure game. Explore from a collapsing school to a gloomy house, and collect clues to solve mysteries. Hide from dark entities, survive terrifying hallucinations, and make a final life-or-death choice to determine your own fate.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with THE LONGING.
Third-strongest match for THE LONGING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
A Line Held Tight
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for THE LONGING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.
Project Looking Glass
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for THE LONGING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
1963. A classified experiment. A grieving mother. A signal that won't stop transmitting. Step through the Looking Glass — a first-person psychological horror told through the static of a Cold War-era apparatus that peers into places mankind was never meant to reach.
VT Harmony
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for THE LONGING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
Play as VT, a lonely TV-boy who seeks solitude until the sudden message from a strange bunny named IV. Discover the different endings of this cozy visual novel.
Gray Skies, Dark Waters
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for THE LONGING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
What does it mean to truly disappear without a trace? This modern interpretation of centuries-old folktales drops you into a world of secrets, unanswered questions, and (just maybe) the supernatural. Search to reveal the truth—or, at least, your version of it.
Flawless Abbey
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for THE LONGING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
You are a dreamseeker. At least, that's what she wants you to believe. Play every role, open every door, and delve into cosmic debates with dolls that seem to know far more than they should. But remember, above all - don't break her heart.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below THE LONGING at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under THE LONGING on Steam right now. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under THE LONGING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with THE LONGING.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under THE LONGING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under THE LONGING on Steam right now. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under THE LONGING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under THE LONGING on Steam right now. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under THE LONGING on Steam right now. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under THE LONGING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with THE LONGING.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with THE LONGING.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with THE LONGING.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about THE LONGING
- Is THE LONGING verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — THE LONGING is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does THE LONGING cost?
- THE LONGING is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to THE LONGING?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside THE LONGING are Legends of Savvarah: Children of the Sun, Diary: White, Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut.
- Who developed THE LONGING?
- THE LONGING was developed by Studio Seufz and published by Application Systems Heidelberg.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on THE LONGING.
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