The Long Review
Deep, spoiler-tagged verdicts on the RPGs and immersive sims we finished — narrative, systems and pacing, weighed honestly.
New instalment every Thursday · free to read, no paywall.
Gaming journalism, hand-stitched.
From a studio above Rivington Street, we write slow, considered coverage of RPGs, raids and rigs — the kind of games writing you actually want to read twice.
+44 20 7729 5647 · Editorial desk open Mon–Fri, 10:00–18:00 GMT
About the club
A workshop, not a content mill.
SteelQuest Raiders started in 2018 as a Discord for four Shoreditch friends who kept arguing about loot tables at the pub. It grew into a proper editorial team of six writers who each play a game to completion before a single word is published.
No review scores under 40 hours. No sponsored verdicts. No hot takes we can't defend. Everything we publish is stitched together with the same care a leatherworker gives a satchel — slow, deliberate, built to last.
640+Reviews published
92kMonthly readers
6Full-time writers
How a piece is made
Four steps to a verdict
01
Full playthrough
Minimum 40 hours in the game — main story, side content and endgame — before notes become a draft.
02
Bench testing
Performance logged across three rigs and a Steam Deck, with frame data and load times recorded, not guessed.
03
Second read
A second writer plays the key sections to challenge the verdict before anything is scheduled to publish.
04
Publish & revisit
We update reviews after major patches — a two-year-old verdict shouldn't rest on launch-day bugs.
What we cover
Columns worth your evening
Raid Notebook
Tested clear routes, boss timings and loadout maths for the biggest co-op endgames, written by people in the fight.
Includes downloadable cheat-sheets for every fight.
The Rig Bench
Hardware breakdowns with real frame data — GPUs, handhelds and peripherals put through the same games we review.
Benchmarks published as open spreadsheets.
From our readers
Why people keep the tab open
"The 12,000-word Baldur's Gate 3 review is the only one I sent to friends. It respected the game and my time — I re-read it after Patch 6."
"Their Raid Notebook cheat-sheet got our static its first clear. Clear timings, honest about what's RNG — nothing padded for views."
"I bought my Steam Deck OLED off the Rig Bench benchmarks. Open spreadsheets meant I could check the exact games I play. Spot on."
"Finally a blog that updates old reviews after patches. Their Cyberpunk revisit changed my mind two years later — properly."
"No score inflation, no sponsor fog. When they gave a AAA launch a 6/10 and explained why, I trusted every review after that."
"The indie column put three games on my radar I'd never have found. Small studios, thoughtfully covered — this is my Sunday read."
Get in touch
Pitch, tip or just say hello
Got a game we should cover, a correction, or a review-code offer? Send it over. We read everything and reply to genuine pitches within two working days.
- Phone+44 20 7729 5647
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- Studio52A Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3QP
- HoursMon–Fri, 10:00–18:00 GMT