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The Longest Five Minutes

Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. · NIS America, Inc. · 2018-02-13

SteamAmazon

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 16, 2018 (PlayStation Vita), Feb 16, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 13, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A hero faces his greatest foe, the Overlord. But there's one problem: Why can't he remember anything!? In the midst of battle, his allies' words and the Overlord's taunting trigger flashbacks, slowly rebuilding his memories. Will our hero remember everything before he falls to the Overlord?

74%
positive of 62 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
87/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

"Our hero faces the origin of all evil, the Demon King himself, but suddenly loses all memories of his adventure. His finishing moves, the name of his hometown, and even the reason he's trying to defeat the Demon King in the first place, all gone. Our hero feels as though he's letting his allies down... In the midst of battle, his ally's words and the Demon King's taunting triggers flashbacks, bringing his memories back piece by piece. Our hero tries to regain his priceless memories before it's too late, but the Demon King stands before him, his power unyielding! What can happen in The Lon(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 64% of 16,321 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.6k–3.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 62 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2026-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420182026Week of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$3.992018-02-132026-07-092018-02-13 — best price $35.992018-04-20 — best price $39.992018-07-06 — best price $39.992018-09-15 — best price $19.992018-11-21 — best price $14.992019-01-29 — best price $19.992019-04-22 — best price $14.992019-06-25 — best price $11.992019-08-22 — best price $11.992019-11-12 — best price $19.992019-12-20 — best price $9.992020-03-03 — best price $10.002020-05-01 — best price $19.992020-07-08 — best price $9.992020-09-23 — best price $4.002020-12-31 — best price $9.992021-03-08 — best price $3.992021-05-24 — best price $3.992021-10-11 — best price $3.992021-12-02 — best price $19.992022-02-05 — best price $19.992022-06-06 — best price $3.992022-08-26 — best price $19.992022-12-12 — best price $3.992023-03-18 — best price $19.992023-06-30 — best price $3.992023-11-01 — best price $3.992024-01-05 — best price $19.992024-05-06 — best price $19.992024-08-22 — best price $19.992024-12-13 — best price $4.002025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $3.992025-09-29 — best price $3.992025-12-06 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Player tags

RPGJRPGAnimeAdventurePixel Graphics

Census log

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

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