The Longest Road on Earth

More like an interactive music video, but a genuinely moving experience. Great soundtrack and a condensed set of simple yet resonating images and themes. Overwhelming weight of everyday life, captured in a slightly melancholic and blurred way.

This is.............tough to review. Look, what if I told you that there was a piece of media designed to convey the tedium/monotony of the daily grind, from a variety of perspectives. In order for it to be successful, it would have to illustrate how boring and soul-crushing some of the routines of life can be. The problem is (naturally!) that that means the game itself must be pretty damned tedious itself. Which isn't fun. At all! So, the positives are the graphics; truly next level pixel-based graphics. Really good stuff! The negatives are the absolutely tedious gameplay, bogging you down doing banal, unskippable things like sitting on a bus/subway and watching the walls of the tunnels etc, fly past you......for several bloody minutes! And it's unskippable. And it's made worse by (completely subjective opinion coming up) some absolutely atrocious folk/pop music that likewise cannot be skipped, just fingernails on the blackboard level of misery made into musical format. The sort of barely present, breathy, whispery almost not real singing singing, like open mic night at some hipster coffee shop where the local waitress thinks she's got talent and Marilyn Monroe "Happy Birthday" style breathes fifteen or sixteen "tunes" while plinking away at her acoustic guitar, and you try to decide if it would just be simpler to top yourself rather than listen to another minute of her "singing" and pretentiously pseudo-intellectual wankfest lyrics. Can you tell I didn't care for the music that accompanies the mind-numbingly boring gameplay?!?! So, yeah, subjective it may be, but I struggled to finish this "game". Totally not recommended, but as always, YMMV.

At this point im convinced that the Brainwash Gang wanted to make movies/animation, not games. But making movies is expensive and they settled for gamedev. Their visuals and music are great, gameplay is boring or tedious. Longest Road on Earth plays exactly as the name sounds - long holding of Left/Right, spamming space (sometimes even holding space!), that's it. The most exciting part about the game was cool 3d looking animations of a fridge opening, 10 dollar bill, ROTATED BUILDING, CAR and flying birds. Instead of playing the game, just buy the soundtrack. Music is by far the best part of the game.

Hiçbir diyaloğu bulunmamasına rağmen hem çok rahatlatıcı hem de inceden bir hüzün bırakan birbirinden farklı hayatları deneyimlediğimiz ve yer yer hayatı düşündürten bir oyun. Sahneden sahneye değişen muazzam müzikleriyle de insanın kalbine dokunuyor. Bana biraz Life is Strange'ın şarkılarını hatırlattı ama bunları daha bile kaliteli buldum. Herkese hitap edebilecek bir oyun değil ama çok güzel bir deneyim. [i]"What if I am scared? I'm just human."[/i]

really more of an experience than what one typically thinks of as a game, as such (and short at 107 minutes). but certainly an enjoyable experience, for me. i felt things. more than worth the 2.50 i paid for it. one tiny nitpick, there was a spot that didn't seem to indicate that i needed to do something and it took me a couple minutes to figure it out. but there's always that beautiful soundtrack to get lost in, even if you get momentarily lost as to what to do. worked well on my steam deck.

画面和配乐是顶级，但不是每个人都有耐心玩完，因为它的无聊是作者有意为之的，这与游戏想表达的主题有关。 世界上最长的路是人生，作者可能想用日复一日的无聊工作画面 来让读者感觉漫长，然后读者一想自己也要过着出生长大然后工作一辈子最后死掉 这种日子，就会感觉悲伤。 这游戏我玩的时候一直感觉无聊，但这是作者有意为之，做得相当好，把生活的琐事和被那些琐碎压抑到厌烦的情感传递给玩家了。有些地方我对剧情没感觉但是由于配乐牛逼，所以依然打动了我。 游戏通过生活细节的反复呈现让玩家觉得乏力，这招是可以的，日复一日的晾晒衣服、清洗自己、清洗家、挤地铁挤公交车、每天几乎没差别的日常工作，就像每天都活在一个循环里。而人生也就是洗来洗去，洗自己、洗家、洗锅碗瓢盆、洗食物、洗砧板台面刀具、洗衣服被子、洗床上四件套、洗清洁工具，没完没了的洗。 我能感觉到整个游戏都弥漫着淡淡的悲伤，但究竟是悲伤什么事，可能在悲伤我前几段写的内容，就是漫长的人生和必然与之相伴的无尽琐事。 还有游戏剧情感觉像不完整的电影，对我来说比较跳跃，我以为每个人物最后会衔接在一起，没想到每个人物故事线都是单独的，就像一本作者的文集，明明在同一本书里，里面的故事却不相关联。但这些人物线必然单独，因为最终能在人生之路上与你走到终点的只有你自己，没有同行者。

Well. I usually don't cry. And i usually don't review games. But this, for sure is not a usual videogame. I would argue that this is also NOT a video game, but this is about definitions. Now if you want a game, that's not it. But if you want to experience a story, a long one, you are in the right place. It is a story, it is an interactive movie, that you get to watch while pressing one or in the best case two buttons on your screen. The story follows four characters, four main plots and you get to experience them one by one. Also, as every movie, it heavily relies on the music and the art-style (fantastic pixel-art) So if you want to experience it, check that you vibe with the music and the art. And then sit back, and enjoy every minute of it :,)