Third Pipe Studios Presents

Long is the Night

Victorian Detective Horror · Mythic Fantasy

Indie

Characters

And many more still waiting in the dark…

Pip Prickly Urchin

??? Unnamed Shade

Crowley Weary Hound

Madge Pell Marooned Nomad

Miller Necessary Sacrifice

Crowley

Male Lead

Detective. Officer. The man they send when a case will not stay buried. He arrived in this town with a sealed past and few answers. Here the ordinary and the other share the same streets, and he does not always know which door he has opened.

Vesper

Female Lead

One figure at the edge of the light. An aristocrat who found the ballroom emptier than the night, and took up the hunt instead. She moves through good society like a guest, and through the dark like something that was invited.

The Game

Long is the Night is an open-world investigation game. You play Detective Crowley, navigating the Victorian era. Vampires, witches, and worse already live on the same streets. Some cases stay human. Some do not.

130+ km²

Playable map

80+h

Main story

Indie AA

Single-player

Systems

Fluid Parkour & Vertical Traversal Tactical Stealth Combat Long-Range Precision Sniping Multi-Modal Period Transit — Mounts, Carriages, Steam Locomotives Forensic Investigation & Deduction Engine High-Stakes Multi-Branch Interrogations Espionage, Eavesdropping & Foot Pursuits Environmental & Clockwork World Puzzles Persistent Living NPC Ecology Dynamic Clock & Temporal World States Reactive, Multi-Path Quest Architecture

PC

	Min	Rec
OS	Win 10 64	Win 11
CPU	i5-9400 / R5 3600	i7-10700 / R7 3700X
RAM	16 GB	16 GB
GPU	RTX 2060 / RX 5700 XT	RTX 3060 / RX 6700
Store	80 GB	80 GB

Keyboard, mouse, controller.

Environments & World

The city, and what sits beyond it…

Blackwater — foggy Victorian city street at night

The Baroness in a dark dungeon — gold robe, clawed hands, firelight

Concept Art

Creatures & Mythic

Gameplay

In-world HUD — minimap, quest tracker, health — In world

Dialogue with Pip — street leads and investigation options — Options & dialogue

World building

We are not just writing a story. We are building a mind. The whole investigation lives as one linked map: characters, locations, quests, clues, and lore connected long before the player steps in.

3 kingdoms · 20+ provinces · countless districts and towns · a vast stretch of unexplored wilderness

Drag · scroll to zoom · hover a node

Characters Factions Locations Districts Wilderness Kingdoms Castles Quests Clues Lore

LITN

Score

Three cues for the room.

Dread

Slow tension under investigation and fog.

Salon

Strings for drawing rooms and good society.

Heavy

Peak tension for confrontation and reveal.

Comps

Red Dead Redemption 2

Living world craft. Not our genre — our bar for place.

Units: ~65M
Open weekend: $725M
Main: ~50h
Studio: Rockstar

Take-Two · HLTB

L.A. Noire

Detective cases in a living city. Same craft lane.

Units: 7.5M
Main: ~22h
Main + sides: ~30h
Studio: Team Bondi

Take-Two · HLTB

Disco Elysium

Investigation. Original world. Indie studio.

Copies: 5M+
Steam (est.): ~$80M
Main: ~23h
Studio: ZA/UM

Steam est. · HLTB

Vampyr

Victorian London. District cases. Supernatural stake.

Copies: 2M+
Main: ~17h
Main + sides: ~29h
Studio: Dontnod

Focus · Dontnod · HLTB

Vision

Our vision is to deliver an uncompromising, narrative-driven experience across a sprawling, highly detailed world. By weaving together complex forensic puzzles, authentic character depth, and consequential player choice, we are building a reactive universe where intellect is as vital as instinct, and every discovery carries genuine weight.

130+ km²

Playable map

80+h

Main story

Indie AA

PC · single-player

The Raise

$8M

To complete the present build and release the game on PC.

Production: The remaining development required to finish the game.
Release: Quality assurance, certification, and store submission.
Scope: This franchise only.