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The Long Journey Home

Daedalic Studio West · Daedalic Entertainment · 2017-05-30

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

IndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 14, 2018 (Xbox One), Sep 04, 2019 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 28, 2018 (Mac), May 30, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 14, 2018 (PlayStation 4)

The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?

1
playing now
59%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
58/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
17h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

The Long Journey Home is a 2017 space exploration video game by Daedalic Entertainment for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 17% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 48k–116k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,932 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$0.78-92%
GOG$0.99-90%
Humble Store$0.99-90%
Steam$0.99-90%
GOG$0.99-90%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99-90%
Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.56 at GameBillet (2025-10-30) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 136 of 185 observed days · $0.22 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

502026-08-11 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$0.772017-05-302026-08-302017-05-30 — best price $35.492017-10-27 — best price $39.992018-02-19 — best price $17.992018-06-06 — best price $28.592018-08-30 — best price $5.002018-12-13 — best price $11.992019-03-26 — best price $9.892019-07-29 — best price $7.492019-11-22 — best price $6.372020-02-07 — best price $4.792020-04-23 — best price $2.992020-07-24 — best price $29.992020-10-21 — best price $29.992020-12-23 — best price $3.002021-03-20 — best price $25.492021-05-24 — best price $1.992021-08-20 — best price $1.752021-11-01 — best price $1.592022-01-04 — best price $19.992022-03-28 — best price $0.922022-06-18 — best price $9.992022-09-14 — best price $0.892022-12-05 — best price $9.992023-03-22 — best price $0.992023-06-30 — best price $0.992023-10-09 — best price $9.992024-01-06 — best price $9.992024-04-04 — best price $0.992024-06-19 — best price $0.992024-09-21 — best price $0.802024-11-19 — best price $9.992025-04-10 — best price $9.992025-07-03 — best price $0.852025-09-02 — best price $1.002025-11-06 — best price $0.992026-02-02 — best price $9.992026-05-04 — best price $1.002026-07-28 — best price $7.892026-08-30 — best price $0.78
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2352026-05-29 — 15 pageviews2026-06-01 — 12 pageviews2026-06-04 — 13 pageviews2026-06-07 — 6 pageviews2026-06-10 — 9 pageviews2026-06-13 — 12 pageviews2026-06-16 — 13 pageviews2026-06-19 — 11 pageviews2026-06-22 — 5 pageviews2026-06-25 — 12 pageviews2026-06-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-01 — 14 pageviews2026-07-04 — 15 pageviews2026-07-07 — 19 pageviews2026-07-10 — 6 pageviews2026-07-13 — 13 pageviews2026-07-16 — 6 pageviews2026-07-19 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 12 pageviews2026-07-25 — 13 pageviews2026-07-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-31 — 15 pageviews2026-08-03 — 9 pageviews2026-08-06 — 15 pageviews2026-08-09 — 8 pageviews2026-08-12 — 15 pageviews2026-08-15 — 10 pageviews2026-08-18 — 13 pageviews2026-08-21 — 12 pageviews2026-08-24 — 19 pageviews2026-08-26 — 14 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
13%
earned "THE VICE MUST FLOW"
1.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8831%69
PS4 (PlayStation)1882%39
Xbox One (Xbox)680%38
Switch (Nintendo)120%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGIndieSpaceSci-fiStrategySurvivalAdventureDifficultRogue-like

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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