THE LONGING
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Adventure built around point-and-click, walking simulator, choose-your-own-adventure, idler, and 2D tags. THE LONGING launched in 2020 from developer studio-seufz, published by application-systems-heidelberg, with 7,347 Steam reviews at 92% positive and a $14.99 initial price.
Overview
THE LONGING is a 2020 Adventure game developed by Studio Seufz and published by Application Systems Heidelberg. On Steam it has gathered 6,918 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Studio Seufz with publisher Application Systems Heidelberg is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 353,000 to 823,000 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 LONGING can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,918
Positive
92%
Steam appid
893850
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0353K to 823K
units (median: 588K)
≈ $3.0M to $7.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
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 LONGING at roughly 353,000 to 823,000 copies, with a median around 588,000, derived from its 6,918 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.0M 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
50 observed days · window low $11.24Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $11.24 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $11.24 on 2026-06-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Point & ClickWalking SimulatorChoose Your Own AdventureIdler2DUndergroundMultiple EndingsExplorationAtmosphericChoices MatterHand-drawnStory RichRPGPuzzleSingleplayerMysteryDarkAdventureIndieExperimental
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has THE LONGING sold?
- indielist estimates THE LONGING has sold between 352,818 and 823,242 units (median 588,030), derived from its 6,918 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed THE LONGING?
- THE LONGING was developed by Studio Seufz and published by Application Systems Heidelberg.
- Who published THE LONGING?
- THE LONGING was published by Application Systems Heidelberg, developed by Studio Seufz. See Application Systems Heidelberg's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was THE LONGING released?
- THE LONGING was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does THE LONGING have on Steam?
- THE LONGING has 6,918 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
- Is THE LONGING worth playing?
- Steam players rate THE LONGING 92% positive across 6,918 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 LONGING can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Gorogoa, Beholder: Conductor, OneShot, Sally Face - Episode One, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Studio Seufz's other releases and Application Systems Heidelberg's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where THE LONGING 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 LONGING page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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