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The Long Reach

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2018

Should you play it?

At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it’s a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.

What works

  • Strong atmospheric pixel art and sound design
  • Engaging psychological horror story
  • Interesting and varied puzzles
  • Multiple endings and achievements
  • Immersive and tense gameplay

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some obtuse or frustrating puzzles
  • Repetitive backtracking
  • Dialogue can be juvenile or inconsistent
  • Minor bugs and control issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Terror At Oakheart

  • Lunar Mirror

  • The Darkside Detective

  • 幽灵高校(Ghost College)

  • The Last Door - Collector's Edition

  • The Coma 3: Bloodlines

  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit

  • The Coma: Recut

  • Gemini Rue

  • Tales of the Neon Sea

  • The Coma 2B: Catacomb

  • Lamentum

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Football Game

  • Goetia

  • Mercury Abbey

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  • Autonomy

    Mr. Hopp's Playhouse
  • Escapism

    Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

The Long Reach: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Value.

Last update: 27/07/2026