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.

Roadmap

Tentative release calendar

Public art and writing are original studio work. Generative artwork and copy are not used in the campaign.

Winter 2026

Announcement trailer. Store page opens.

Private demo and teaser are already complete. Wishlists begin here.
2027

Monthly character dossiers and field handbooks, produced by the studio.

Each release carries a clue, redeemed when the beta opens.
Winter 2027

Public beta.

A short set of cases for press and players. Rewards from the year's dossiers are honored in that build.
2028

Beta findings incorporated into the final build. Press cycle, launch listing, and launch trailer.

Dossier rewards carry into that build.
Winter 2028

PC launch. Full commercial release.

Rewards issued from the dossiers are honored in the shipped game.

Dates and milestones reflect current planning and may shift with production.