The Long Journey Home
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An indie game option for budget-focused players, The Long Journey Home launched in 2017 at $9.99. Its Steam footprint is 1,929 reviews with 59% positive, a mixed signal, and it was published by Daedalic Entertainment from developer daedalic-studio-west.
Overview
The Long Journey Home is a 2017 Indie game developed by Daedalic Studio West and published by Daedalic Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 1,327 player reviews, 59% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Daedalic Studio West with publisher Daedalic Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 52,000 to 121,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Long Journey Home can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,327
Positive
59%
Steam appid
366910
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.052K to 121K
units (median: 86K)
≈ $295K to $689K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_59% | -10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Long Journey Home at roughly 52,000 to 121,000 copies, with a median around 86,000, derived from its 1,327 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $492K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
6 observed days · window low $0.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.99 to $0.99. The tracked-window low was $0.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -90%$0.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming -90%$0.99 Buy
- GOG.com -90%$0.99 Buy
- Humble Store$9.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$10.26 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 05:48 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Long Journey Home sold?
- indielist estimates The Long Journey Home has sold between 51,753 and 120,757 units (median 86,255), derived from its 1,327 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Long Journey Home?
- The Long Journey Home was developed by Daedalic Studio West and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
- Who published The Long Journey Home?
- The Long Journey Home was published by Daedalic Entertainment, developed by Daedalic Studio West. See Daedalic Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The Long Journey Home released?
- The Long Journey Home was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does The Long Journey Home have on Steam?
- The Long Journey Home has 1,327 Steam reviews, of which 59% are positive.
- Is The Long Journey Home worth playing?
- Steam players rate The Long Journey Home 59% positive across 1,327 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The Long Journey Home can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Daedalic Studio West's other releases and Daedalic Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Long Journey Home sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Long Journey Home page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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