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| Developer(s) | Funcom |
| Publisher(s) |
Empire Interactive Tri Synergy |
| Producer(s) | Ragnar Tørnquist |
| Designer(s) | Didrik Tollefsen Ragnar Tørnquist |
| Programmer(s) | Morten Lode Audun Tørnquist |
| Artist(s) | Didrik Tollefsen |
| Writer(s) | Ragnar Tørnquist |
| Composer(s) | Bjørn Arve Lagim |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, iOS |
| Release date(s) |
Windows
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| Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 88.00% |
| Metacritic | 91/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Adventure Gamers | 4.5/5 |
| GameSpot | 9.3/10 |
| GameSpy | 92/100 |
| IGN | 9.3/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 90% |
The Longest Journey (Bokmål: Den lengste reisen) is a point-and-click adventure video game developed by Norwegian studio Funcom for Microsoft Windows and released in 1999.
An iOS version was released on October 28, 2014.
The Longest Journey is a point-and-click adventure game where the player interacts with objects on the screen to solve puzzles and advance the story. The game features expansive recorded dialogue most of which is non-essential to completing the game but contributes to the setting.
The game takes place in the parallel universes of magic-dominated Arcadia and industrial Stark. The protagonist, April Ryan, is an 18-year-old art student living in Stark, identified as a 'Shifter' capable of movement between these worlds, and tasked with restoring their essential Balance.
The story begins in Stark, where a sleeping April unintentionally shifts to Arcadia and meets the 'White Dragon', who identifies her as the heroine of the coming story. Upon learning this, April is attacked by a dark 'Chaos Vortex' and awakens in Stark, where she dismisses her experience as a nightmare. The character 'Cortez' later surprises her by revealing his knowledge.
When surreal activity begins affecting her friends, April meets again with Cortez, who transports her to the Arcadian city Marcuria. There she meets Tobias Grensret, Vestrum of the Sentinel; learns Alltongue, the common language in Arcadia; and hears from Tobias that the Balance protecting both worlds is dissolving after the dereliction of its Guardian, and must be restored by the appearance of another.
To return to Stark, April visits Brian Westhouse, a friend of Cortez, who assists her return; Cortez then tells her of the organization known as the Vanguard or Church of Voltec. The next day, April consults Warren Hughes, a homeless boy who agrees to help April if she erases his criminal record and locates his missing sister, in doing which April finds a data cube on the Church of Voltec. Hughes then refers her to a hacker named Burns Flipper, who reveals that the wealthy magnate Jacob McAllen is head of the Vanguard, assisted by Gordon Halloway, a former candidate for Guardianship divided by the Vanguard into Chaos (in Arcadia) and Logic (in Stark), and gives her a false identification by which to infiltrate the Vanguard through its front company MTI.
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