:THE LONGING:

Daring premise (the game takes 400 real-time days to complete!), but it quickly loses its lustre. Too slow, too empty, too dull. I walk a lot in real life and it's pretty generative—sometimes I write notes on game designs or stories, or sketch or write poetry, or just think something through—but plodding around in this game absolutely doesn't have the same effect. The fundamental flaw I think is that it's an idle game where the interesting things always seem to happen while you're not paying attention, but paying attention makes it excruciatingly boring. And the game doesn't even take 400 days! Many in-game actions speed up the in-game clock so you can get to the end faster. Man, if you didn't have confidence in your own idea then why should I? Even with the speedup, there's nowhere near enough to do to make it worthwhile to spend your time, to be, in the game as opposed to real life.