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Game2021
The Longest Road on Earth
Developer Brainwash Gang, TLR Games
A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs. From the Steam store page
204 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
142 positive · 54 negative
95% range 66–78%
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| Steam reviews | 142 | 54 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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8 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
509 of 653 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 204 · most liked firstI wanted to like this game a lot. I love walking simulators, interactive fiction, and most importantly: slow story telling. Unfortunately, I have a cognitive disability that means I basically can't understand song lyrics without reading them at the same time. This game has *NO* subtitling available, making any meaning beyond what is presented visually completely impenetrable to me. I imagine it must be equally difficult (or harder) for people who learned English as a second language, or those…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is more of an art piece than anything else. It watches the lives through the perspective of different characters in everyday situations. I enjoyed the music, and I respect the art it's trying to embrace. That being said, it's personally not for me. That doesn't mean somebody else won't enjoy it. It's a very zen, minimal interactions game. If you want to relax, not think about game play, and just enjoy the "vibe", this is a good one to play. I prefer more game play myself, and that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Truth to be told, I kinda laughed my ass off whilst I thought of some people claiming that video-games cannot ever reach the status of being a work of art. This game, the work of art I've mentioned, had stepped up and pleaded for itself. Hats off to the visual designers and the beautiful voice that put billions of emotions inside us. The way I see video-games, there is a purpose of being an interactive book in which the players control the stories that are given to them. On the other hand,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More of a follow along to the soundtrack than actual game play. Beautiful pixel artwork and no printed dialogue allow for open interpretation of each story. Great for viewing in a quiet room with the lights down and the volume up. The game is relatively short so won't over stay it's welcome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Somewhere, a housewife waits for someone, her life picturesque yet lonely. Somewhere, a laborer toils and moves between jobs, spending most of his life traveling yet somehow going nowhere. Somewhere, a deck-swabbing janitor and a paper-pushing accountant both work for the same shipping company, their walks of life miles apart yet joined by the same sense of drudgery and burnout. Somewhere, a child learns to walk, then run, cause trouble, grow older, watch television, move out, and become a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is it still a game if we only have to push right or left and press A every now and then? Comparing a game with a movie and thus denying it its ludic nature is the lowest blow of game criticism. And yet we have to ask ourselves: How much is still left to reduce here? Chunky pixel graphics, no text or dialogues, only accompanying music with vaguely fitting vocals. The actions we "control" for the characters are inconsequential, but at the same time so specific that pressing the A button doesn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Something I see here quite often is: I wanted to like the game but... My version of that is: I do like the game BUT how and to whom I would recommend it, is a totally different thing and I don't even know if I would even recommend it to myself, but yea probably in the end I would. You may notice that I'm a little conflicted and most of the time I don't like it when games trigger this in me, there are a few exceptions but The Longest Road on Earth is not one of them. I have no problem with the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Okay so... the message of the story is great. It has an amazing art direction and even better music However, this is the clearest example of... not everything needs to be a game. Not even an interactive experience. Literally all the pros of this "game" are about the non-interactive areas. This should absolutely not be a game. This is not the right media for it. Staring at the screen for 5 minutes (not an exaggeration) without doing anything? Go watch a movie instead Last but not the least -->…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →why even play this game? you may as well stare at a sunlit wall and watch the shadows shift as you hold a stick in your hands like its a controller. but why even do that? why even get out of bed when youll just have to sleep again? why eat,if you just have to eat again? why do anything? there is no point. there is no meaning, no victory or rewards screen, so why even try? life is meaningless and has no purpose. life only exists in the living. and living is a small thing, repeated…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THIS GAME IS NOT FOR ME... BUUUT: I am not the target audience for this game, but I cannot in good faith give this game a bad review. This game is beautiful, even within the span of the 20 mins I played I can tell this game is art. The music is beautiful, the character design is wonderful, the story (or rather lack thereof) is wonderful, and its clear that this game was made for pure artistic expression rather than gameplay value. ( 7/10 ) again not for me, but I still love it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like this game was created specifically for me to experience it today. It's kinda an interactive music video about the simplicity of everyday life, so it's very slow and a bit about nothing. And yet, that "nothing" kept me in tears almost non-stop for 1.5h. For 99% of people it will probably be just a boring mess, but for that 1% (myself included) so much heart, emotion and effort was put into it, that it became a deeply profound and immersive audiovisual experience. The music, script…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First impressions were good, it had an appealing monochrome pixel art style that gives it a nostalgic charm, and it managed to communicate the story without dialogue, just visuals and minimal controls, using just the spacebar and left/right arrow keys. Visually speaking, it's a lovely game. As for the story itself, it's a collection of slice-of-life vignettes focused on the daily lives of a handful of anthropomorphic animals. The story of the rat lady in the beginning was rather heartwarming;…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not entirely sure how to feel about this game. As others have pointed out, this isn't much of a video game, but more like an interactive music video. There is practically zero gameplay. The music is gorgeous, the art is well done, but the rest is just lacking, to be quite honest. The point of the story, I think, is to have the player reflect on their own life while observing the lives of the characters in the game. Except, I found myself getting utterly bored in the first two chapters,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The music and art are nice but I honestly don't know why it's a game. The user seems to be the least important part here. You move very, very slowly, you can't make your own choices, you can't even impact the world in the game. Everything is predetermined. All you do is click the left or right arrow (and space once in a while!) and listen to music. Sorry, but I prefer Spotify to listen to music, not Steam xd This story should be made a film, where the storyline is told just with lyrics of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"most of the lyrics are sung so soft I can't tell what the singer is saying half the time" - sadly I had the same issue. To be able to read the lyrics would have helped a lot with the rather long waiting scenes in the game, too. The game itself didn't provide enough information about the basics like who, where, when and this is the minimum I expect from simple storytelling of a 6 year old child. I think the setting could be self explaining for someone who grew up in America (wild guess,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vibe: This game is for people who extremely love chilling and cozy games. You literally only need 3 fingers to play. It's more like an interactive animated movie than a game. What I like: The pixel animated is simply beautiful and nostalgic. The game is very simple to play and the story is cute. What I don't like: The music would keep playing in the background, which was very nice to hear at first, but would soon make me feel so sleepy and want to turn it off. What I hate: The intro is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this because of Beícoli. Her music powers my own art. I have never felt this way before, about a singer. This is no game, it’s an art piece. Eleven dollars to feel something? Go for it. I came for the music, and got more than what I wanted.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=store.steampowered.com/app/1295790/The_Longest_Road_on_Earth/]The Longest Road on Earth's authenticity sits uncomfortably halfway between a walking and a waiting simulator with interminable stretches of nothingness. I approached this title without defined expectations, seduced by the prospect of an original concept based on intriguing retro visuals and a narrative without words. That much is true. It could have been compelling if the pacing wasn’t so deliberately lethargic and less of an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boredom isn't always bad. Introduction The Longest Road on Earth is a very slow and deliberate "game." In 4 chapters, it takes the player through multiple loosely connected slices-of-life, conjoined with an folk album performed by the artist Beícoli. The game is the result of a successful [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brainwashgang/the-longest-road-on-earth]kickstarter campaign funded in early 2020. This game will not be everyone's cup of tea, and you might even struggle to call…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This should've been an indie animation video, not a video game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game specifically to hear more of Beícoli's music because I really liked what she did in Laika: Aged Through Blood. I got way more than I could have hoped for, it's basically 2 full albums of deeply emotional music and all the songs are bangers. All packaged into a game as a delivery system, quite fantastic. And this time we get to hear way more of her beautiful voice and mind, she's really talented I hope she's considering making an album with this kind of talent..! I feel…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I could not get past the intro. makes you watch the credits first but you cant just let them play you have to hit a button every few seconds to keep progressing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not get bamboozled by all those reviews saying this isn't a game or complaining about the lack of story. This is a game and it has a story, it is called pure, unadulterated communist propaganda. These "furries" (I'm 99% certain the little boy deer is none other than Josef Stalin himself), mask the true purpose of this game. The devs don't call themselves the Brainwash Gang for nothing. It's all in there if you pay attention and look closely. This "coming of age / life cycle" non-verbal…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was pretty excited to purchase this game for a while when I learn it would be following the story of multiple anthropomorphic animals that leave you to interpret what their stories are all about, plus having a highly detailed pixel art style is a must-buy for me. But, I didn't anticipate how slow it would be, gameplay-wise, and I like to think I'm quite patient for these sorts of games, but apparently not for this game as most of the things we do are quite mundane like changing the laundry,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →But these are all still recognizable *as* games, where joy is derived from pushing through this barrier of obtuse frustration to find the mechanisms behind and master them. ... then there's this game, "The Longest Road on Earth."
unlabelledView post →I think the best way to view The Longest Road on Earth is a series of music videos. The songs are mostly decent and sometimes even good but they do run into the problem that most double albums have. It’s difficult to make 20 songs feel memorable and varied enough to not have your overall project feel too long and bloated. The visuals and interaction in the game don’t really do the songs much of a favor either. Everything is subdued and mostly open to interpretation. Although, I have a pretty…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Personaly, I didn't liked any of the songs, and the slow walk got in to my nerves! I am a big lover of pixelated narrative games, this one to me felt pretty random, and more a interactive video story without much context. I was curious to see what this was about, because I am a great fan of Raw Fury. It is a beauty, no doubt! I love how they made the pixel art and all, but I didn't like the interactions... some scenes took a really long time and you don't have much to do (nothing/just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If I were forced to catalogue this as a "game" I would say it's a walking-simulator slice of life interactive album. But the only accurate description for this experience I can give is: a beautiful work of art. Go with the flow, with no expectations and be sure to have around 1.7 hours to spend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game not for everyone because of its pacing. It's very slow, much slower than most other games I or my friends generally play. There's no escalation, no bigger overarching narrative, no dialogues even. It's just stories about people. Or rather, it feels almost as if looking at the memories that the creators have of very mundane things, and living that for a few minutes. I enjoyed it because of that. It gave me an appreaciation for my own life, and its slower parts. If you're looking for an…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can video games be considered art? The Longest Road on Earth certainly seems to answer this question with a yes. But it is less of a traditional video game and more like an interactive music video crossed with a walking sim. Without any dialogue or text, we get to take in beautiful B&W highly detailed pixel art sceneries while listening to a mesmerizing soundtrack created by artist Beicoli. But you should try the demo first. If you dont like the music, do not get this game, because the music…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is definitely not for everyone, especially if you find it hard to sit still mentally and everything moves so slowly.Which seems like the whole point of the game. I wanted to love this game and enjoy slowing down, but the whole thing made me so impatient and angry. It was like a special kind of torture, and the music made it even more torturous. I really hated the songs. However, there are definitely people who will love this game. It's not bad, but as I said, it's not for everyone. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What on earth is the point of this "game"? It's more like a pretentious hipster music video, to force you to sit through and listen to the soundtrack (yes, FORCE you to... all I can do is stare at a lamp for 3 minutes until the song ends? Then it's on to another poignant/pointless scene/song?) The music isn't bad, per se, but honestly I'd find it more enjoyable to just sit back and listen to it than to have a semblance of a game where you make little to no actual choices, so you're basically…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I discovered this game on PS store's upcoming games section and instantly loved its pixel art, so I decided to buy it on Steam. The music is so good that keeps you playing til the end and the lack of dialog lets you interpret the story by yourself. Still, it can be a frustrating game for some people 'cause the gameplay is not that entertaining. Let the beautiful voice of Beicoli guide you through this journey! <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game takes 90 minutes to complete. It features no dialogue and almost no written text. There is a lot of well-produced vocal music, which provides a thoughtful ambience. 90% of the pixel art is good; The other 10% are great. There are even well-executed bits of visual storytelling.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In our newest Backtrack Review we take a look at 2021’s The Longest Road on Earth. A peice of interactive fiction that tells four stories through nostalgic songs and gorgeous pixel art. Learn more in our full review: somanygames.co.uk/review/the-l...
unlabelledView post →more of an interactive art piece. Playing it feels like stepping into a movie scene where you embody different characters, experiencing fragments of their lives. There’s no dialogue, no text..just simple actions paired with beautiful music. The gameplay is intentionally minimal. You might find yourself serving coffee in a diner, walking down a quiet road, or driving through the countryside. At times, it can feel repetitive or even boring but I think that’s the point. Life itself can be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More of a hold A or D and sometimes press space simulator and an intractable album than a game. but dear god it's a really stellar intractable album
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually incomprehensible Right, so. I love artsy games. They're some of my favorite digital products. Dear Esther changed me profoundly. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture was a weaker effort, but still good. Night in the Woods is another game which left an indelible mark on me. I love high-concept games with minimal gameplay and extremely dense or emotionally resonant plots, and I recognize the pretentiousness inherent in such. So when I saw there was a period walking simulator which billed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short film rather than a video game, there's not much you can do except move the characters left and right, hit Space on items. 1/2 time is to control random working class characters walking around town/shop/home, the rest 1/2 is about their regular life about work and family. All trifles nothing special. There's one scene particularly interesting - the screen is cut into 2, the left is a character who works in an office and the right is in a factory, by comparison you can see the eating…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →B O R I N G I like a good, slow paced point and click game, but this one is just painfully boring. There is literally noting to do for the player and the sequences when you just need to sit through without anything happening take MINUTES (I kid you not). Music is OK, but pretty monotonous and it get's old fast. Save yourself 120 minutes of your life and do not play this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A not-so silent film for the computer age. This collection of interconnected slice-of-life stories leans heavily on its visuals and music to convey narrative without a single line of dialogue. The title is less about a physical road and more about the paths the characters take between one moment and the next. Taking place at different points in time this game encourages a slow, meditative pace to understanding the implications of Beicoli's lyrics and what each scene is trying to say;…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My vote is between yes and no. "Yes" if you are into original songs will little to no gameplay, which is meant to be experienced in one sitting. "No" if you're looking for something more interactive - this however picks up towards the end, and the controls are very simple. Nice songs that fits the overall storyline, the 8-bit look and the landscape scenes were pretty. there is some autosave function in some chapters. my only gripe is that the characters move slow, which i guess is meant to be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the life story we all could related to ourselves. Whoever reading this if you are facing life's adversity making you feel like you wanna give up,don't give up yet. You will overcome whatever life throw onto you. Just keep doing what you are doing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game in an interesting idea, but ultimately it's a flop. I'd recommend buying the soundtrack, it's a lot better. PROS: Good music Nice pixel art CONS: Gameplay: While the premise of the game isn't bad, it's brought down by having the world's slowest walking speed. I get wanting to have a slow pace, but this makes walking across a room an extremely tedious chore. Don't even get me started on how long it takes to walk across a city block. Story: The game follows four characters as…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simply insufferable. After a miserable unskippable opening credit with so many important names (they must be important, they sure take their time ), you finally do something. I walk around a bit. I'm enjoying the vibes, the music is fine... one kinda knows what to expect about this kind of game... ok... "I'll get back to it later..." Quit. Some time later, I open the game. continue. And there I am. once again in the miserable unskippable insufferable opening credits. Trying to skip the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like I’m walking into this game at a good time as it is described as a “walking simulator”. And to be very frank, I don’t think it’s a very good one. It just so happens I played this off the back of another walking simulator. Dear Esther, which I find to be a very good… Well, thing. Here I want to explain why Dear Esther works as a “walking simulator”, or at least a good example of it, and why The Longest Road does not. Let me preface this by saying it’s always nice finding…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was really slow and boring
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I could get really into the art style, and the type of storytelling, if it weren't for the music. The music is obnoxiously out of place in this game, where calm, quiet music paired with some game audio would make it feel great, instead we get an over-dramatic and repetitive album of vocal music from one artist that is completely disconnected from what's happening on screen.
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unlabelledView post →A montage of vignettes depicting the every day lives of a variety of people, tied together through the framing device of an antique store. This isn't a game. It's an interactive music video for an entire album of Beicoli's music. If you don't like her music, do not get it. I like a lot of her work, and I think the end result works fairly well, but the music is incredibly anachronistic most of the time, and only starts clicking a couple chapters in as its consistency helps serve to tie things…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game made me sad until I saw the reference to Laika: Aged Through Blood.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Longest Road on Earth isn't really a game, but it is definitely an experience. The narrative is up to interpretation, but it covers themes of going to work and growing up, which anyone can relate to. The black and white pixel art properly fits the idea of playing the game as looking back into history. And the soundtrack? Holy cow, Beícoli did an amazing job! The soundtrack, without question, makes this game beautifully unique.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What is The Longest Road on Earth? We're not entirely sure. It looks like a music-centric walking sim indie game, probably melancholy, expect some feelings...? Let's find out! Live now, taking an intermission from our recent Corn Kidz streams to play The Longest Road on Earth! twitch.tv/kjorteo
unlabelledView post →After powering through the longest and most horrifically boring intro on earth, I shut the game down because the music was insufferable and the gameplay is made for sloths. It takes 10 business days for the character to walk from one end of the screen to the other. I've never been this disappointed by a pixel-graphics game in my life.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really one note, boooooorrring, shallow, completely uninteractive, pretentious, poorly told, repetititve , slow, ok I get it, life is slow or something move on stop wasting mytime!!!!!!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE noit even gonna spell check this get ♥♥♥♥♥♥
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