The Longest Journey is a third-person graphic adventure in which you play the role of April Ryan, a struggling student artist in the year 2209, recently arrived in the big city of Newport. April is afflicted with strange nightmares, but her nightmares are starting to affect her waking world as well. Only the strange old man Cortez seems to know what's happening. He sends April to another world where magic is real. There, April learns that what she thought were nightmares are real, and that she must save not just one, but two worlds.

The Longest Journey is a huge game, spanning 13 chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue, spread out over 4 CDs. All the usual graphic adventure elements are present, including lots of fairly challenging inventory-based puzzles, pages of dialogue, and bunches of places to explore. To help keep track of things, the game includes a diary, where April records her thoughts about important events, and a conversation log that records the text of every conversation.

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Alternate Titles

"Бесконечное Путешествие" -- Russian title
"TLJ" -- Informal abbreviation
"The Longest Journey: Najdłuższa Podróż" -- Polish title
"The Longest Journey: D'un monde à l'autre" -- French title
"Den lengste reisen" -- Norwegian ttle
"Den längsta resan" -- Swedish title

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The Press Says

Aventura y Cía	Aug 15, 2001		100
UHS (Universal Hint System)	Jan 28, 2001		100
Adventurearchiv	Jul 20, 2005	97 out of 100	97
PC Gamer	2000	90 out of 100	90
Game industry News (GiN)	2001		90
Retrogaming.it	Jan 22, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Svenska PC Gamer	Jan, 2000	90 out of 100	90
Puntaeclicca.it	Apr, 2000	8.5 out of 10	85
JeuxVideoPC.com	Apr 22, 2006	15 out of 20	75
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 07, 2001	74 out of 100	74

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Trivia

The main character's name is April Ryan, just like Ryan in the game Dreamweb, also published by Empire Interactive Entertainment. And the plots of both games have some things in common (the hero who suffers from nightmares and must save a world he/she didn't even know existed in the first place)

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by andyhat

(1953) on May 13, 2000.