Windows

The Longest Journey

Description

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.

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

Part of the Following Groups

• Female protagonists
• The Longest Journey series

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User Reviews

Still conservative in gameplay, but story and content get a whole new dimension here	Unicorn B. Lynx (60141)
Spread your legs!... AND DO THE MONKEYYYYY!!	Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe (1536)
Stunning. Absolutely brilliant.	Tomer Gabel (4476)
Great game, tough far from perfect	Zovni (9141)
Great adventure until it reaches the end.	MAT (35183)
Somewhat long and boring, but a fun game nonetheless.	kbmb (399)	unrated
Sub-LucasArts in every respect.	András Gregorik (22)
Let me be the party popper here and express my disappointment over "The Longest Journey"	ududy (47)
Enjoyable!	SDfish (1807)
Great Adventure Game	Paolo Cumin (14)

The Press Says

Adventure Classic Gaming	Aug 15, 2007	5 out of 5	100
GamePro	Feb 23, 2004	5 out of 5	100
Adventurearchiv	Jul 20, 2005	97 out of 100	97
Game Over Online	May 12, 2000	94 out of 100	94
Adventure Lantern	Jul, 2006	93 out of 100	93
Game Revolution	Mar 01, 2001	A-	91
Computer Games Magazine	Jul 22, 2000		90
PC Gamer	2000	90 out of 100	90
Power Unlimited	Dec, 1999	8.7 out of 10	87
JeuxVideoPC.com	Apr 22, 2006	15 out of 20	75

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
remake?	15	chirinea (24578) Jul 11, 2007

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)