The Long Journey Home (2017)

Developer: Daedalic Studio West, Daedalic Entertainment
Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment, Daedalic Studio West
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Rating: 2.9 of 5, 13 player ratings
Main story: about 17 hours
Where to get it: Nintendo eShop

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How it feels

A tense, strategic space journey where every jump brings hard choices and uncertain consequences.

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About

The Long Journey Home combines the endless freedom of space with a new open questing system that always leaves you in command. Deliver the stranded Glukkt to his homeworld as he asks, or to your new slaver friends? Attempt to make allies with everyone, or pin your hopes on the tougher races, and hope they never turn on you? Jump by jump, make hard decisions and live with the consequences, in a universe that is never the same twice.

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