The Long Reach
- July 18, 2018
- Painted Black Games
What The Long Reach may occasionally lack in originality, it more than makes up for in inventiveness, personality, and bubbling slow-burn horror chills. This is a well-written, atmospheric horror adventure, and it deserves your attention.
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Get on Xbox Games StoreIn "The Long Reach," players delve into a psychological horror story set in a fictional town. As the game's protagonist, players uncover a twisted plot while navigating various environments and solving puzzles. With a focus on narrative and exploration, the game utilizes pixelated graphics and a 2D perspective to convey its eerie atmosphere.
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Critic Reviews
The Long Reach Review - A World of Pure Hallucination
Overall, The Long Reach was an interesting experience encompassed with an array of psychological horrors. The happenings in Baervox are a bit of a headscratcher, but that's the point - you're not supposed to fully comprehend what's going on.
65%The Long Reach Review
The Long Reach just barely misses the mark thanks to a painfully tone deaf script full of juvenile dialogue and puzzles that rely on process of elimination as much as actual thought-work. The general aesthetic of the world is appealing, with just well-crafted sprites, and the atmosphere is appropriately oppressive, but the overall story feels bound together by a script that can't decide between humour and tension. When every character speaks the same way, alternating between sarcastic quips and actually moving the plot along, it makes for an exhausting experience. Along with repetitive dialogue trees, it's hard to immerse oneself into the narrative. The game is short enough and might be worth buying on sale, but it certainly shouldn't be purchased for full price.
50%The Long Reach Review
A deeply layered story with the scares to match, The Long Reach brings back the basics of psychological-horror by keeping players both intrigued and nervous until the very end.
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