Long Gone Days

Long Gone Days is a role-playing game with visual novel elements that uses a top-down perspective. It features a traditional turn-based RPG combat, which allows the player to select which body-part of the enemy to aim. Since the story doesn't have fantasy or supernatural elements, instead of magic, the characters rely on morale. This stat can be raised or lowered by the choices the player may choose during dialogues in and outside battles, and it affects how each party member will perform in battle. If their Morale reaches zero, the character loses their will to fight.

Besides the turn-based combats, the game features a first-person sniper mode, which consists of seek and find mechanics.

In an unrecognized country named The Core, whose exact location is unknown, every individual is trained from birth for their job to become experts by adulthood. Rourke, a military sniper who has never visited the surface, is chosen as a last-minute replacement for an operation to aid the Polish forces in Kaliningrad, without much time to review the briefing.

After the mission of eliminating the targets they were assigned to, Rourke discovers all of them were civilians; and the squad's combat medic Adair reveals that it was actually a false flag operation. Rourke is appalled by their actions and by the fact nobody in his squad seems to mind the war crimes they are committing, so he decides to desert. Intrigued by his choice, Adair makes up his mind to follow Rourke along.

Long Gone Days was originally conceived in 2003 by Gormaz as an RPG Maker 2000 project, but it was not until 2015 that the development of the demo began. The game was announced for the first time on the RPG Maker forums and TIG Source on January 17, 2016. On May 13, the Windows version of the demo was released, and an OSX port was released on July 14.

On July 11, 2016, Gormaz launched a crowdfunding campaign on the website Indiegogo. The campaign reached its goal on August 11, 2016, ending with US$21,300 raised by 567 people. According to the developer, the game will be around 4 to 5 hours long, and it will have two different endings. Serenity Forge published Long Gone Days for Linux, macOS, Windows, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox Series X/S and One, and Switch on October 10, 2023.

On Metacritic, Long Gone Days received mixed reviews for Windows and positive reviews for the Switch. Although they praised the morale mechanic, Hardcore Gamer criticized what they felt were an "inconsistent tone and unconvincing meshing of visual styles". RPGamer praised the combat, visuals, and music, but they felt the pacing was too fast to cover the subject matter. RPGFan made it an editor's choice and called it "a gorgeously poignant game".

RPG Site enjoyed the story and said the combat was "decently balanced". They recommended it to fans of narrative role-playing games set in the modern world.