April Ryan is a struggling student artist in the year 2209, recently arrived in the big city of Newport. Lately she has been seeing strange, life-like dreams. Somewhere in the mountains, a mysterious white dragon talks to April, calling her the "mother of the future". When April wakes up, she dismisses the vision as a nightmare. However, an old enigmatic man named Cortez, whom April has spotted near her house before, unexpectedly tells her that she must face the reality in her dreams. Soon April learns that our reality is but one facet of a universe that consists of two parallel worlds: Stark, the world of science and technology, and Arcadia, the world of magic. Though raised in Stark, April possesses the ability of shifting between the two worlds, and must restore the balance in both of them before it is too late.

The Longest Journey is a third-person puzzle-solving adventure game. The player navigates April over pre-rendered backgrounds with fixed camera angles, interacting with people and objects through a simple point-and-click interface. The gameplay follows the traditional template introduced in LucasArts adventures, relying mostly on inventory-based puzzles and multiple-choice dialogues to advance the story. 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

"無盡的旅程" -- Taiwan title
"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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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	The Longest Journey: Adventure Game of the Year Edition	Windows	$19.05
	The Longest Journey	Windows	$69.99
	Longest Journey, The		$9.99
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User Reviews

Still conservative in gameplay, but story and content get a whole new dimension here	Unicorn Lynx (132767)
Spread your legs!... AND DO THE MONKEYYYYY!!	Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe (1526)
Great game, tough far from perfect	Zovni (9425)
Blade Runner meets Final Fantasy	Edward Brown (228)
Great adventure until it reaches the end.	MAT (47009)
Somewhat long and boring, but a fun game nonetheless.	kbmb (399)	unrated
Stunning. Absolutely brilliant.	Tomer Gabel (4429)
"That is so... uncool."	András Gregorik (51)
Let me be the party popper here and express my disappointment over "The Longest Journey"	ududy (47)
Enjoyable!	SDfish (2497)

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The Press Says

GamePro (US)	Feb 23, 2004	5 out of 5	100
UHS (Universal Hint System)	Jan 28, 2001		100
Just Adventure	2000	A+	100
GameZone	Jan 25, 2001	9.4 out of 10	94
Game Over Online	May 12, 2000	94 out of 100	94
Adventure Lantern	Jul, 2006	93 out of 100	93
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	May 10, 2000	90 out of 100	90
ActionTrip	May 13, 2000	90 out of 100	90
Retrogaming.it	Jan 22, 2008	9 out of 10	90
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 07, 2001	74 out of 100	74

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Trivia

The character Marcus, who only appears in the first chapter near the Fringe cafè, and only has two lines, was voiced by Ragnar Tørnquist, the director/lead designer of the game for the English release.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by andyhat

(1949) on May 13, 2000.