Just a Little Longer

Just a Little Longer

Scott Jund · 2026 · Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter, Metroidvania

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6 user reviews83% · 6
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About Just a Little Longer

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Blast through a nightmarish top-down shooter where death instantly erases your save, but you can wake up anytime to keep permanent upgrades and shortcuts while resetting progress. Risk everything pushing deeper into the nightmare to uncover its mystery, or play it safe knowing each escape run will be faster than the last.

Just a Little Longer is a punishing top-down shooter with the staples of classic action horror games, with a brutal permadeath gambling twist: whenever you die in the recurring nightmare the game takes place in, your save file is instantly deleted. To combat this, you can choose to "wake up" at any point, instantly returning you to safety, but reverting the nightmare back to the beginning. However, inventory items, guns, upgrades, and shortcuts unlocked remain as they were before the awakening. The question is: do you play it safe and return to the safety of your bed, or do you keep going, trying to find the cause of the nightmare — and keep dreaming just a little longer?Transient shades and terrible unknown creatures stalk the depths of the nightmare, and ammo to defeat these foes are scarce and vital. Upgrades throughout the game will make defeating these foes easier, as long as you are able to retain them by not dying, and witnessing these foes allows them to be researched upon waking.A large connected game world that wraps back on itself with numerous shortcuts and methods of transportation to unlock. Unlocking these shortcuts is crucial to soften the impact of choosing to wake up. As soon as shortcuts are opened, they are never closed, making repeat ventures into the nightmare more and more efficient.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jun 20, 2026
It's like a mix of Dead By Daylight and Friday the 13th (the game) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, made by the same guy that made that This Is Interesting game I wanted to be cool by posting this early review, and for now, it's a really unique game! I can't wait to get to 1 hour and 56 minutes to refund it! My $$$ will go to my black tar heroin production assembly line! UPDATED: After playing more of the game, and surpassing the third boss, I can update this review a bit more. The game has 2 problems for me, which they kinda fix themselves later on, but make the early game pretty frustating: 1.- If you decide to use your phone's light, it will quickly run out, and while you can still pull out your phone when it has no battery for a quick look at your surroundings, it unequips itself after half a second. And the game is really dark, and it came to a point where I had to play the game only at night IRL because any sunlight would make it so I could not see the where I was or where enemy were when I had to pull out my gun to shoot them. Later on, you get access to a renewable source of phone chargers so you can use your phone more. And I kind of got used, and even liked the experi…
26 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 21, 2026
I'm bad. Play the game. I can't beat it because I cant figure out what the hell to do after one point, and I broke the game somehow. Good luck!
10 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 23, 2026
very cool very sexy
5 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 1, 2026
I haven't played that much yet but I love it so far, just cryptic enough to my taste. Since I suck at keyboard gaming, I don't have the reflex to hit ESC and WakeUp, this is what killed me on my first playthough. Don't know if it's intended that the controller is almost 100% supported or if it wasn't supposed to be at all, but the controller is detected and can do 95% of the controls. But that last 5% is important, it's printing, switching from light to gun and shooting lol Game is too much fun to not get over the hate I feel towards keyboard gaming tho. Good one mister Jund, good one.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 9, 2026
I really want to like this game, but unfortunately I keep encountering bugs that make it difficult/impossible to play. The biggest issue I’ve run into is a bug where, when pushing a chair, my character will sometimes clip straight through it, which eventually makes the game pretty much unplayable since it softlocks me. On my first time waking up, I was hit with a flashbang. The entire screen went completely white. I’m not sure what caused it or what triggered it.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 8, 2026
Just a Little Longer is a top-down action-horror experience built around a simple but intimidating rule: surviving matters far more than reaching the next room. Developed and published by Scott Jund, the game places the player inside a recurring nightmare where exploration, combat, resource conservation, and calculated retreat are tied together. Its pixel-art presentation may look modest at first, but underneath it is a deliberately unforgiving survival system in which death can erase the current save. That single consequence changes the meaning of nearly every decision, turning what might otherwise be straightforward exploration into a constant assessment of whether continuing is worth the danger. The nightmare functions as a large interconnected environment rather than a collection of completely isolated stages. Players venture farther into its unsettling locations while searching for equipment, weapons, upgrades, shortcuts, and clues about what is happening. Progress is therefore about more than defeating enemies. Understanding the layout becomes increasingly important because routes connect with one another and shortcuts can make future expeditions considerably more manageable…

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