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The Long Reach
Developer Painted Black Games
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. From the Steam store page
197 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 17, 2026 · last updated Oct 18, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
75
LovedLoved
141 positive · 46 negative
95% range 69–81%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 141 | 46 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 3 | 0 | 7 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
204 of 259 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 145 yes, 45 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 190 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (424 of 505 positive).
Players praise the pixel art and atmosphere, but many find the writing and dialogue uneven. [1][2][3][4] Technical issues like input lag and infrequent autosaves frustrate some players. [5][6]
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Representative posts
- [4]
The Long Reach is a pixelated psychological horror adventure game. In this game, the player has a chance to explore a mysterious scientific lab, sent somewhere in a small American town and one day everything goes wrong. Now you have to understand what happened and save the world. Pros: + The game starts pretty intriguingly in terms of a story + Pretty nice pixel art + Soundtrack definitely fits the creepy atmosphere …
- [8]
Wow! It's kind of hard to describe on what I just played. The Long Reach is an adventure game where we control the player using KB only. It's a different kind of horror game, kinda reminiscent to Lovecraft but not that high quality. Still, the story is violent, mysterious and scary. The dialogues are fun with lots of puns. It's like 30% funny dialogues with 70% horror mix. It's quite short though; would take 2-3 …
- [2]
The writing is the weakest part of this game, there's no nice way to say this. Art direction and soundtrack are fantastic, the game itself is dripping with atmosphere. Sadly what holds this game back is the juvenile storytelling and dialogue. Too often you have to select a dialogue option even though there's only one you can choose, and too often the MC can't even articulate himself. Imagine the villain giving his …
- [11]
The Long Reach is short but well-written and atmospheric story about the triggering of an apocalyptic event. Having to search for objects and retread the environment multiple times however (in a manner all-too-common to adventure games), does put a damper on the pacing, especially towards the latter half of the game.
- [1]
Introduction The Long Reach is a modern take of 1990 era games, with pixel graphics and a horror survival vibe. You are part of an experiment which goes horribly wrong and when you wake up, you start to realise that everything has gone sideways. Check the Rating. Not recommended for Children. The Breakdown Audience / Rating: ☐ Kids ( 3 – 9 ) ☐ Everyone ( 9+ ) ☑ Casual ( 15+ ) Violence, Gore ☐ Mature ( 18+ ) …
Summarised from 34 of the 200 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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The Long Reach sits at 75% positive across 187 opinionated reactions from 2 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 197 · most liked firstGo ahead, mutt. Drool into my sweaty gamer boar ass. Lose to my musk while I game. Streaming The Long Reach: Episode 1! twitch.tv/itisidog
neutral · AI labelView post →The Long Reach is a pixelated psychological horror adventure game. In this game, the player has a chance to explore a mysterious scientific lab, sent somewhere in a small American town and one day everything goes wrong. Now you have to understand what happened and save the world. Pros: + The game starts pretty intriguingly in terms of a story + Pretty nice pixel art + Soundtrack definitely fits the creepy atmosphere + A thrilling atmosphere with a desperate feel will not leave you for the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Introduction The Long Reach is a modern take of 1990 era games, with pixel graphics and a horror survival vibe. You are part of an experiment which goes horribly wrong and when you wake up, you start to realise that everything has gone sideways. Check the Rating. Not recommended for Children. The Breakdown Audience / Rating: ☐ Kids ( 3 – 9 ) ☐ Everyone ( 9+ ) ☑ Casual ( 15+ ) Violence, Gore ☐ Mature ( 18+ ) Violence, Gore, Use of Drugs / Alcohol, Smoking, Sexual Content ☐ Pro Players Only…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have never seen such a terrible way to display and communicate information. It looks pretty but the interface so terrible that it lost my appetite for it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Long Reach is a horror-thriller game, basically a pixel side-scrolling adventure where you go around picking up items and then working out how to use them for puzzles to progress. Sometimes it makes sense, other times it is moon logic. There is a lot of back and forth, which isn’t particularly fun. Dialogue flip flops between excellent and downright awful, it is like someone trying to be edgy has written half of it. There’s a lot of unnecessary swearing, or just flat unfunny, try-hard…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This doesn't happen too often, but thumbs down not because I don't think one could like this game, but because it was a miserable experience for me. I'll try to stay away from spoilers, but at least a little, approximate info is needed at points. What I liked: - The pixelart is fairly decent, and the game deals with light and darkness pretty well - The unfolding story is pretty interesting as story, character details and food-for-thought. The game also uses non-linear narrative to present…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixed. I almost quit because movement and running did not work properly, but I read someone's tip about also pressing 'w' to avoid the input lag / stuttering. After utilizing this workaround, I was able to complete the game. While the story is interesting, I cannot say I particular enjoyed the experience with the technical glitches and infrequent autosaves (only when using an item correctly / finding a solution, no manual option) severely hampering the fun. The dialogue options seemed to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is about 2-3 hours long, looks absolutely beautiful and only 25 % of the player made it to the end. I think this says enough about the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SU-152 Slayer on Kasserine. Actually had a decent game in it, it’s well outside my usual comfort zone, I’m currently playing my worst performing TD’s as a challenge to myself while doing the Long Reach contract… Totally🤪😂 #WorldofTanks
neutral · AI labelView post →Semovente M41 nice game on Sand River. Very sneaky👍Started the Long Reach contract, NO LIGHTS, just TDs & Heavies🤪🤪😂 #WorldofTanks
neutral · AI labelView post →The Long Reach is the debut release from Painted Black Games; a humble indie developer just getting their foot in the door. This initial effort is of a pixellated 2D world, filled with psychological nightmares, otherworldly horrors, and buckets of gore. Taking place in New Hampshire, in the fictional town of Baervox, players will find themselves controlling a character name Calvin; a guy tasked with getting groceries, and he's thinking about breaking it off with his soon-to-be wife because of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EASTER EGG: did anyone else step into the elevator and suddenly find themselves in a 3D sequence in which the famous carpet pattern from Stephen Kings "The Shining" was visible?????? It only lasted from a few moments. ANYONE????
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/VY_j3N2c_Ss Adventure game trappings with rigid solutions that require constant leaps of logic on the player part wears out the draw to the setting or story very quickly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Long Reach is a horror game that aims to really mess with the player. Story: I'll try to keep this section to a minimum, to avoid spoilers, but it does include spoilers for the main character so this a warning. At the beginning at the game we play as Calvin, a lab worker who one day visits a grocery store, but suddenly a customer breaks down and starts twitching, as you go to call the ambulance in a different room, you come out to a grisly scene of blood and gore as the game cuts you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The pixel art style might seem simple at first, but it adds a layer of creepiness that really gets under your skin. Thanks to a certain Panda i can play this hidden gem, ILY3000 <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow! It's kind of hard to describe on what I just played. The Long Reach is an adventure game where we control the player using KB only. It's a different kind of horror game, kinda reminiscent to Lovecraft but not that high quality. Still, the story is violent, mysterious and scary. The dialogues are fun with lots of puns. It's like 30% funny dialogues with 70% horror mix. It's quite short though; would take 2-3 hours to complete but it's high quality and a great modern horror game. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think that The Long Reach had more potential if it had changed its setting up. The general story is that there's been experiments going on in a lab, and you, the protagonist, realize that some coworkers are going insane and people are showing up dead. The goal is to save yourself and figure out what is going on and if you can stop it. Overall, a pretty generic science-based horror plot. The first few moments catch your attention, and I was tense for a little bit until about halfway through…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Long Reach was an okay little horror adventure game with good art and great sound design coupled with a solid story concept. However, it's rather short and could've explored the main concept more. Nonetheless worth picking up on signficant sale should you enjoy adventure games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game 14: The Long Reach (2018), Nintendo Switch 1st Gen What’s interesting about this game is how often I find myself making faces at the dialogue, but then compelled to play more because of the story and the puzzles. 135 games left. #gotgo #nintendoswitch
neutral · AI labelView post →Played The Long Reach on Switch. A short indie horror adventure more akin to a point&click adventure w/item based puzzle & narrative choice progression Fantastic pixel art, some obtuse puzzles, decent writing A bit buggy but it's programed by one person Good music, esp jingle bells in a minor key
positive · AI labelView post →The Long Reach is on more of these games where I wish Steam would have a “neutral” opinion for reviews: This (not really) point and klick (since you have to use only the keyboard) horror-adventure as a great atmosphere and a nice little story, that I really liked. BUT the world is a little bit shallow and the game mechanics are - like the theme of the game – a horror (*tadish*). No really: It is mostly pick something up and use it elsewhere. Which is fine in general was, it not for the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Follow our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36214917/]Curator Group for more reviews The Long Reach is an adventure horror game that focuses heavily on point and click adventure gameplay. While the game might be packaged as a horror game, at its heart, it’s a classic, old-school adventure game. There is very little hand holding, requiring you to think about what you should do next, while also taking time to explore the world. Given the horror setting, it creates a sense of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3/10 stuck in an endless load game loop and had to restart my game from the beginning - story - gameplay
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →underrated asf this game deserves lots of love WORTH YOUR TIME
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Long Reach is a console ported try hard edgy psyche-sci-fi-thriller type 2D retro pixel side view point and click adventure game. This console game has you bumbling through the usual motions for retro 2D adventure games like Curse of Monkey Island, but the difference here is that Monkey Island tried to be funny and was funny, where this tries to be funny, dark and edgy and isn't. There's a free demo you should try to ensure you don't waste any money on this, but let's go through why it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My score is NEUTRAL. But since Steam still doesn't allow it, I'll make it NEGATIVE. This is overall a good, retro-looking, psychological-horror adventure game. It is neither easy or hard, especially for the regular point & click adventurer. I must say; for a retro inspired pixel game, graphics are great, especially the color and the lighting, contributing a lot to the ambiance. Still, the ambiance owes most of its dept and thrill to the sound design and music score. As an audiophile, I was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really wanted to like this game but most of the puzzles are just pixel hunts and tons and tons of retreading the same areas just to hunt one small tiny thing you missed in a maze of rooms. The writing is not that great the storys okay and i dont know. I know its an indie game and i try to be fair with reviews but this game i just did not enjoy. I feel like there were no clues whatsoever to any of the puzzles. At times it was almost like it was just try a random combination of things to see what…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The writing is the weakest part of this game, there's no nice way to say this. Art direction and soundtrack are fantastic, the game itself is dripping with atmosphere. Sadly what holds this game back is the juvenile storytelling and dialogue. Too often you have to select a dialogue option even though there's only one you can choose, and too often the MC can't even articulate himself. Imagine the villain giving his big speech and you can only react with "yeah whatever ♥♥♥♥♥" and other brilliant…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow, that was cool. Beat it twice. I like pixel graphics, so visuals are very nice for me :) This game is an adventure horror (and yes, it has spooky moments) with full controller support, I enjoyed it so much playing in bed on 65" TV. Puzzles here are not hard, but they can make you think a bit. You can beat it in 3-5 hours. Overall I highly recommend to get this one even not on sale, totally worth full price. But only if you like such type of gameplay and pixel graphics. P.S. Really, read…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Long Reach is short but well-written and atmospheric story about the triggering of an apocalyptic event. Having to search for objects and retread the environment multiple times however (in a manner all-too-common to adventure games), does put a damper on the pacing, especially towards the latter half of the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If I have any criticism about the game it's that the humor comes on a little strong and it seems out of character for all the horror and bloodshed that's happening in the game. Otherwise, it's a neat little game that's intense and scary.
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neutral · AI labelView post →SPOILER WARNING I'll try to keep most of the story out but I do mention it in some instances. Art The art is great. Some of the characters look samey, though, because of the thought-out character designs, you don't really mix them up. I could see this being an issue if the game had a much bigger cast, but as it is now, it works. The art style also looks simplistic but really fits the vibe - gives "The Thing" vibes. Music Loved most of the music (that demented jingle bells song is stuck in my…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would love to give this game thumbs up but unfortunately I will not give because thanks to not implementing steam cloud. I lost my progress on old pc and i refuse to start over.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Who the hell makes a point-and-click adventure game for PC and then requires a controller? I'm fine with controller support - it makes a lot of games better - but... it's a PC game where you cannot use the keyboard and mouse to control it. Why?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just on the verge of greatness, The Long Reach ends up as a good horror-adventure game with an intriguing and creative story and cast of characters, mostly decently designed puzzles, and lastly features great, cheeky dialogue and writing that further add to the specific type of humor and overall sarcastic tone it aims towards, that give more than enough character to the game. Maybe without some technical hickups, just a couple obscure puzzles and the slightly awkward control scheme (what…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very short but very fun game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've finished it in 3 hours, got lost a few times, got scared once because of a loud sound and that's it. The story wasn't too bad though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent, easy going story akin to The Crazies with a mild touch of Stranger Things. Artistic representation is great; characters & environment are nice to look at, no room is the same. It is quality over quantity. Dialogue is very edgy and it's nice that you're given those options but to tell you the truth, responses are rarely different. I'd prefer that the pop culture references weren't as bold and in your face as they are, it felt too saturated at one point. It's a backtracking fetch quest.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short dip into a minor apocalypse. A small amount of trying every item with every world-object. An occasional run from a slightly better-armed foe. A compact story, neatly told, that needed to be a played, not watched. Ignore the title, this game is neither long, nor an (over)reach. I does what it needs to do, compactly, and like the best narratives (and potato chips), is satisfying enough that one wouldn't mind a little bit more, but can't identify anything that was missing.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly a great game to play that has that "Call of Cthulhu" vibe with the early game elevator tricks and how you slowly seep into madness. Puzzle and mysteries that don't require too much thought but aren't merely a matter of gather everything and use it on everything til it works, and even makes fun of you for doing so. And it really does convey one of the SCARIEST ideals in a single cutscene for something that seems like its straight out of the Twilight Zone!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great pixel horror game in the way of LONE SURVIVOR. The second half isn't as great as the first, which is genuinely endearing and disorienting. However, the story still comes together in a relatively satisfying way.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No, just no, I love the art style of games like this but the puzzles are impossible to beat and glitched out, i kept running into the same error of scripting where I cannot trap the crazy in the chemical room.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a good time with this game. However, it's a really short game! I was willing for more content. The beginning of the game is the best part, after that some puzzles are really boring. The Long Reach is like The Silent Age. It's an honest and simple Point and click game, not extraordinary. The horror part is really good. The soundtrack chills me out. I was scared at some levels. The writing part is great. The structure of the narration is enough complex to reserve some surprises. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent story, gameplay, atmosphere, sound and music. Would have been amazing if it had voice acting too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very creepy and disturbingly well made! Definitly can recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible writing, tedious and uninspired gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great point and click horror experience. Comes in a tight package with perfect pacing. The premise and story are interesting, the humour is extremely dark and dry, and the violence works to provide punctuation marks. The experience can be a little buggy (npcs not acting properly, game softlocking after prompts) but restarting the game doesn't make you lose too much progress. The pixel art is simply wonderful. I would definitely recommend this if youre looking for a short psychological…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →nice and interesting game, the story is really interesting, gameplay not so much
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Long Reach pays homage to old school LucasArts games through retro graphics, inane humor, and "moon logic" puzzles. In other words it's designed to waste the player's time, has terrible dialog, but at least it looks good!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice and short horror adventure game about scientific ♥♥♥♥-up. Takes less than 3 hours to beat it fully. It's dirt cheap and almost constantly on a discount. There is no real reason not to try it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Long Reach is a narrative-driven horror adventure developed by Painted Black Games and published by Silver Lining Interactive that blends side-scrolling exploration, point-and-click puzzle design, and psychological horror into a deliberately unsettling experience. Set in the fictional town of Baervox, the game begins with an almost mundane premise before steadily unraveling into something far more disturbing, using atmosphere and implication rather than constant shock to draw the player in.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was very drawn in by the premise, and deeply disappointed by pretty much everything other than art and soundtrack. Dialogue is occasionally funny, plot is interesting but never really... expands into anything greater than what it presents at the beginning.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some frustrating moon logic puzzles
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No.45 - 25/10/2025 - The Long Reach - Short horror themed puzzle game about a research facility studying how to transfer knowledge.
neutral · AI labelView post →if you like or heard of uncanny valley without a doubt you'll like this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Poorly guided with no direction. Had to watch a youtube guide to even do anything
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the art style and the intro. Absolutely jaw-dropped at the twist. I will say some of the puzzles are SUPER challenging (I may have used a walk through for some parts). Still a wonderful game and re-playable as well!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played The Long Reach as our spooky game for the day. Went longer than I thought, but not in a bad way. Good game, would recommend.
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