THE LONGING

Dear inhabitants of the caves, here's Anselm, creator of The Longing. As some of you might already know, The Longing took me over 4 years to make. After it was finished, I was sure that the next project would turn out much smoother... in a way I was right, but also very wrong. Long story short, Lucky Tower Ultimate has just been released, after spending over 5 years in production, from which 1.5 years were spent in Early Access. It's quite different from "The Longing" and doesn't share many similarities at first sight, except the art style and parts of the setting. That is by choice, since A) I wanted to do something entirely different after this long time and B) it was made by a "real" team and not primarily just myself. It's a roguelite/adventure that comes from a place of fascination for medieval-themed dungeon-crawlers, "Ghouls ’n Ghosts", "Kid Paddle" comics, and Tomi Ungerer books.Of course, I couldn't resist and put a cave into the game too; it even comes with a fitting soundtrack by Lord Redstone (composer for The Longing). If the game sounds like your cup of tea, you can check out the Steam page here: As I ha

Dear cave inhabitants, The maintenance update that was previously accessible only via the beta branch is now available to all players. It mainly consists of small bug fixes accumulated over the last few years. We have also improved the anti-cheat system and removed the online-only constraint. The game can now be played offline on desktop, just like on all other devices (The Longing has been available on mobile and console for some time). Thank you for your help with testing! -Anselm P.S. The original Shade plushie will have a re-run next month.

Dear cave inhabitants, it has been some time since we released a maintenance update, for testing is always a complicated affair with this game. There have been a lot of small bug fixes accumulated over the last years, especially since the game was released for mobile devices and we optimised it for touch input. We also improved the anti-cheat and got rid of the online-only constraint. Now the game is also playable without internet on desktop, as on all other devices. However since Steam is the biggest player base for the game, this update will not be set live immediately but first via a beta access. If you're reading this, you can join the beta by taking the following steps: 1. Right-click on the game in library view 2. Choose Properties->Betas 3. Enter the secret code CaveSweetCave 4. Press "Check Code" and then opt into the longingupdate branch This will give you access to the newest version of the game. It would be great if many people joined this beta, so we know if there are still things we want to fix. After we're sure that the changes in the update are sufficient, we will then release it to all players. Important: If you still run into bugs after downl

It has been a while, since the Steam version of THE LONGING has received any updates. This was mainly due to the fact that the game was ported to other platforms, like the Nintendo Switch. When I first started making the game I used ancient technology like Unity 5, so our publisher ASH had the terrifying task to overhaul the game technically in many aspects, making it smoother to play and hopefully fit for the future on PC as well! To add something more fun to this update, I also decided to finally add trading cards, since they actually fit quite nicely with the waiting concept. Here are all of the updates listed: Controller support added. In case you always wanted to walk through caves with a joystick. Small UI update for menues and the waypoint selection, since they didn't work with a controller before. Japanese added as a new language. After all, we owe a lot to them. 1.5 GB reduction in file size due to better compression. This is also the main reason for the relatively big download size of the update, but it will actually save disk space on your machine. Support of many different aspect ratios, like 4:3 or 16:10 and support of 4k full screen resolutions. Steam Trading Car