The Long Dark

It is very different from other survival games. It makes you think about different things and seems more of a challenge.

took 100+ hours to finish 'turtorial' (story mode)
can't wait to loose more my precious life on survival mode

One of the best survival games i have played. No zombies or monsters while you build massive forts, just you and the elements

I just really enjoy this game. There is surprisingly a lot more to do and think about then you would expect.

After waiting 3 ish years for the final Wintermute update I no longer think we are getting it. I hope I'm proven wrong but the devs have continued to update the paid DLC without any end in sight for the original story.

This game is a survivalist's dream. While of course not all of it is entirely accurate, the use of materials, items you find or what you create while also being delved into such an interesting story is so addicting. I can't get enough of it. Quite literally gnawing at the bars of my enclosure for the release of ep 5 for the story.

So, The Long Dark. I used to play this on PS4, and honestly, it’s an okay game. I’ve always liked the art style—there’s something really striking about that cold, bleak wilderness vibe. But let’s talk about the story. It’s decent, but it could be a lot more engaging. I mean, you’re surviving in the middle of nowhere, fighting off hunger, wolves, and freezing temps, but the narrative? It could use a little more punch.

And seriously, do we need to wait a decade for a new chapter? I get it, quality takes time, but come on. I’m out here surviving for years in-game, and it feels like I’m doing the same in real life waiting for the story to progress.

Randy Rating: 3.8/5 — Solid survival game with great art, but come on, speed up the storytelling.

beautiful graphics, sometimes hard, love story mode

Stunning game play, easily get lost in this for hours... I love that there is survival, challenges and storyline game play. I never knew finding everyday items for survival could be so addictive.

I bought this game originally for my Xbox during the first chapter release of this game. Ever since then, I have loved every new chapter and addition to this game. It is a truly wonderful experience all the way through and it's still being worked on. Beautiful aesthetics, great mechanics, and a developed, fully immersive world to explore and admire. Bought the game again for my PC bc I couldn't get enough of the game and needed to play it all the way through

Fun survival game for both people who like a challenge and people who like to explore in an easier mode.

Good game if you like looting and surviving. Exciting only in bursts, lots of inventory management.

A great game that mentally takes you to the harshest north of Canada and allows you to enjoy the solitude and atmosphere of a harsh winter.

As a survival game enthusiast, from Stranded Deep, The Forest Games, Subnautica, Green Hell, etc.. This one is special. You come to love the art style and as an introvert its paradise. There's so much to do and explore and the game is worth twice as much as they charge for it. Amazing devs and amazing replay-ability. I wish I could go back to reliving that first blizzard in a firewatch tower all over again. I really hope they make a Long Dark 2 or keep expanding on this one after Tales from the far territory.

Let me start by saying I am a casual gamer and always look for games with enough challenge to keep it interesting, but I am never looking for extreme challenge as that is not how I relax. Having said that, I absolutely love the Long Dark for being very versatile and adjustable to your preferred challenge levels.

Ihave played both Wintermute and Survival mode.

Wintermute I absolutely loved, from the art, the imperfect and thus realistic characters, the music. I am a bit of a completionist and don't rush through games so I got a decent amount of play time from the Wintermute episodes and the side quests. I forgot the fifth episode wasn't released yet, and I was genuinely sad that I had to leave that world for now, but am looking forward to joining it again later this year.

After finishing Wintermute (for now) I've been playing through survival mode, which I enjoy a lot more with the Tales from the Far Territories DLC, as I enjoy the recipe feature a lot. It took a bit of a learning curve at my desired difficulty level, but I am now consistently surviving, and am enjoying exploring the regions that weren't part of the Wintermute story line. I also know that I can easily find more challenge by moving through the different difficulty/gameplay modes.

At this time I've played this game more hours than I would have imagined myself spending on gaming, and I am expecting I'll add quite a lot more yet.

great atmosphere, good story and characters. there's SO much walking to do which gets boring sometimes but maybe that's supposed to add to the mood since, I mean, you're in the middle of nowhere in the sub-arctic. it's desolately beautiful. If I wasn't obsessed with these kinds of ecosystems since I was a child I probably would have gotten too bored to keep playing from all the walking

This is a pure survival game. The only action you'll see is the occasional wolf, bear, or moose encounter. Most of the time you're trying not to die of cold, fatigue, dehydration, and starvation. It makes for an oddly satisfying gameplay loop where you're always being forced to think on your feet. If you enjoy survival mechanics, this game is made for you.

User friendly. More than one mode to play on to make it easier or harder based on your style of gameplay. Good story line. Love exploring the landscapes.

Good game, good art style, good everything. Good.

Absolutely amazing survival simulator - the atmosphere of loneliness is all-consuming and there's nowhere to hide from it.
But that's exactly as it should be. Huge respect to developers who really cares about the community and the game itself. I love you people!

Best survival game out there with developers that care about the community and the game its self,

I believe this is genuinely the best game to come out in the last 10 years and I have so much respect for the developers. The sort of watercolour artistic style of the graphics makes the scenery look so pretty, and the sound design and score adds an even deeper level of immersion to your gameplay, especially when wearing headphones. I can't recommend this game enough. 10/10 you will not regret playing this game

This is a very well polished game that is extremely immersive despite its very unique style. The story will draw you in and I am very much looking forward to the final episode. DLC is fantastic and enjoyable, providing story to the survival mode. Truely fit for all playstyles and very smooth and enjoyable to play.

All the negative feedback recently has been because of the the Studio's slow development pace, and lack of communication regarding development, but this is just people being impatient. They listen to the playerbase, are not overly greedy, and have on multiple occasions rolled back changes in response to community request. They also havent moved towards supporting mods, and personally, I think we should just wait until they have finished their current roadmap first. They are doing a great job.

Loving this game. The lighting and atmosphere is quite magical. The music is good, too.

The Long Dark is one of my favorite games to play. The game itself if very slow paced, so if you don't want to spend hours playing this game, then this game is not for you. However, this is a fantastic game to play when you are bored or don't know what game to play, because the game does not require a lot of effort to play (for the most part), and the time just flies away. The game is about you surviving in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash. A geomagnetic storm has hit the Earth, and all electronics and people are gone. The world gets very cold, and wolfs, bears, moose, deer, rabbits and ptarmigans roam the land. You are truly alone, and game really makes you feel alone and hopeless, thanks to the amazing soundtrack, and the world you survive in. In addition to survival mode, there is also a storymode, which in my opinion is pretty decent, even though its not completed yet. The only downsides to this game is that it takes many hours to play.

I Strongly reccomend buying this game with the DLC "Tales From The Far Territory". It adds so much to the game, with new items, foods, regions to explore, and a new story (which is amazing).

I love the game, and i buy it because i want to play story mode but i bought the wintermute story mode that contain ALL EPISODES and a few days later The long dark realese a new episode for wintermute and doesnt contain in the pack of wintermute, you need to buy apart xdddd

This game is very pretty and its world is also quite intriguing, so every few years I keep coming back to it to give it another try. Unfortunately, I keep running into the same problem: I find the game's balance to be incredibly annoying.

Here's a small example: 1kg of cooked venison fills your hunger meter by roughly 1/4. Leaving aside the visual of a person eating ONE WHOLE KILOGRAM of deer meat in one sitting and then feeling only mildly sated, in order to get that 1kg of venison, you need to spend at least 40 minutes (of in-game time) butchering a deer out in the cold (your warmth meter goes down), then carry it in your backpack (your energy meter goes down from exhaustion) while risking wolves sniffing you out, then waste resources on starting a fire. And then you cook the damn thing and only get 1/4 of your hunger meter back.

It feels so not worth it and that's a microcosm of the whole game experience for me. You have to do so much busywork and take so many risks for very little reward.

Switching to an easier difficulty level doesn't help, as all it does is give you more resources and less predators to deal with. The game says that the easy mode is meant for exploration of the world (which is exactly what I want) but wild animals and lack of resources are not what's getting in the way of my exploration. I WANT to have to scrounge resources and worry about wolves, that's fun. What's not fun is babysitting your character's 4 meters that go down faster than it takes you to gather resources to replenish them.

Here's another example. It takes several hours (again, in-game time) of standing near a fire or being inside a building for your warmth meter to fully replenish (depends on a lot of things, but if you're fully cold and set up camp out in the woods, then it'll be at least 3-4 hours for you to warm up). But, even if you're fully clothed in multiple layers of good clothing and the weather is nice and clear, your warmth meter goes down to nothing in about 1-2 hours of walking outside. That's not enough time to explore anything. If the weather/my clothes are less than ideal, then I can't even make it from one end of a location to another before my character is at risk of hypothermia. You can start a fire to warm up, but that'll take you 4 hours and daylight is limited (so are the resources for starting fires). You can push on and ignore your character's constant whining, but then you risk dying and losing all your progress. This particular example annoys me not just because it gets in the way of me enjoying the game, but also because I grew up in the North and I just don't get why game developers think humans have 0 body heat and no ability to keep themselves warm. Maybe this is a first game made by reptilians.

Eh, I've complained enough. Maybe I'm just not getting something that would make this game enjoyable. I really did try to like it but I guess it's just not for me.

Wow, so much content in new regions. Wow, liked it so much. I bought a new DLC year ago and waited all this time for all content to be released (I am not even speaking about story line). I prepared my cacao and had a nice winter mood. And the what? ONE freaking HOUSE in Transfer Pass. No loot at all. One sign pointing to a mine, and it's freaking blocked. I had to go to another region - Sundered Pass. And it won't became any better :D:D I survived 3 days and all three days it was only storm, so I don't even know is any content there, I was just no able to find it. I understand, hardcore players, etc., but seriously? Hardcore players also like to just wonder three days between woods and rock with 0 content (human made anything, houses, story points, anything). Yeah, I know, there regions for "intermediate" players - but I've been there so many times! Anything new for players like myself?!

The Long Dark is definetly one of my favourite games. It reminds me of my childhood, when i was on holiday at my grandma and loved to explore the wood in winter all day.

It is calming and scary at the same point, walking throw the endless wild nature. Sometimes i felt very happy when it snows and then i fight for life in the blizzard and run away from wolves. You dont know if your alive next day and the task for every single day is to survive.

I really recommend the game for everyone who loves survival and crafting games. And yes its sometimes very hard an challenging but that is life, isnt it?

Bought this a 3 years ago, only to have the WINTERMUTE storyline abruptly end as if this was still in Early Access. I come back 3 years later to find the main game's storyline is still not finished (despite being sold as a full game) yet there now being paid DLC available for it.

You know what, if these indie game studios can/like surviving catering to the tiny fraction of players that are their super fans, good for them. I'm not going to recommend the game though.

This game has something for everyone. With multiple difficulty levels from pilgrim to interloper, you can approach this as more of a passive open world cozy game (where wildlife won’t attack unless provoked) or truly immerse yourself in the survival craft experience.

I enjoy survival craft games and as someone who was a bit put off by Pacific Drive due to the infrequent saves, this has been a pleasant step up. I can pick it up and put it down as I please, simply leaving a cabin or ice shanty will prompt an auto save.

The graphics are beautiful and I love the expansive open world vibe of this game. Due to the requirement that you regularly monitor and remedy your stamina, energy, thirst, hunger, and temperature, it simulates what it truly might feel like to be fighting for your life in a frigid endless winter in the rugged wilderness. The scavenging is engaging as you never know what you might find from a bag of ketchup chips to a note left behind by a weary fellow traveler.

My only disappointment is reviews of the DLC’s appear quite mixed. I’d love to play this in story mode as a rich story would only pull me in further, but I’m hesitant to spend the money.

Don't buy until it's finished. Wintermute (the original storymode) was initially released in 2017 and has yet to be completed. However, they found the time and resources to create and consistently update Tales from the far Territory - a new $20 dlc story. They changed the date on Wintermute's page on Steam to say it was released in 2022 (probably matching an update or the release of Tales). I feel like this is misleading potential players to think all of these episodes have consistently released within the span of 2 years. I assure you that's not the case.

Most players play survival mode. The majority of the reviews are going to be from people who exclusively play survival mode. Survival mode is okay. If you play Wintermute, though, you'll see how limited the area is in survival. The prison, for example, is completely removed from survival. An entire area removed for no reason. They can't say it's to match the story mode's situation because it's just survival mode! The storymode events don't matter! People really love the survival mode because of how somber and lonely it feels to be surviving on your own in the wilderness. There's the benefit of more challenging modes or even customized modes. If survival is exclusively what you're looking for, then I'd say go for it and just get the $20 survival edition. If you're interested in a story whatsoever, I'd say wait on it. Survival mode isn't going anywhere but you'd be paying $35 for an unfinished game.

Only mildly relevant but there's also no Workshop support because the studio does not support mods. I don't mean mods to cheat, I mean ANY MODS. There's mods out there that add extra content like more types of food and other items that make it more immersive (as well as QOL mods, too). There's zero support for modding whatsoever. That's been made very clear. Given how the CEO is, I'm wondering if it's truly because they're concerned about mods damaging the game or lowering the integrity of the experience but if it's truly because the CEO's bitter and up his own *$$ about people thinking they can make his game better.

ALSO slightly irreverent, but the studio itself should be mentioned imo. The studio has been nothing but passive aggressive condescending in response to valid criticisms (the "warnings" and "non crunch" message as the game starts are examples of this). The CEO is notoriously awful. Like, genuinely widely known for being a jerk. I've previously seen someone mention "Raph is almost singlehandedly driving Hinterland's reputation into the ground" and that's absolutely true. It's also true that Raph couldn't care less about it.

The epitome of survival game perfection. Immerse yourself in a freezing, empty, quiet apocalypse where the decisions YOU make while continually dying of cold, hunger, thirst and exhaustion are the true enemy. Jump in terror at the howl of a stalking wolf or the growling of a starving bear actively seeking to tear you apart and eat you alive. Sigh with relief when you find safe shelter and bask in the warm flickering light of a cosy fire you brought to life yourself. Feel overwhelmed at the beauty of this Canadian wilderness when the soft light of a sunrise welcomes your continuing survival. Be awestruck when the night sky glows with the purple and green curtains of the Northern Lights and your ears are filled with the chimes and crackles of the stunning Aurora. The stuff of Life.

After playing on launch because I love open-world survival games, and closing the game after a few hours after dying alone in a blizzard... I tried again this year because a friend liked the game, it's a breath of fresh air, a very cool game. The game is a hard climb but at the summit of it, it's beautiful.

Join us in the long dark!
because the night is dark and full of terrors!

The survival mode is incredibly good. Atmospheric and honestly terrifying at times, love it.

肾虚主角 跑两步就喘气 煞笔设计 整个流程就一直在光秃秃的地图上龟速爬来爬去 纯纯恶心人 🤢

The game was alright, but I wish I had known about how unethical the studio developing it is before buying it.

To cite a few:
- The game still feel like it's in early access, despite the release being in 2017.
- The main story is still unfinished after all this time (2016).
- They made it into a dlc later even though it was supposed to be in the base game. Pretty bad practice and a big red flag to spot a greedy company. It's still not finished, and not even good. Who asked his grade schooler kid to write the script? I was writing better, less cliche stories in grade school, and they make me cringe every time I take a look at them.
- Another (unfinished) dlc even though the main story is still unfinished. Maybe after ten years and five dlc, they will finish it.
- The constant censorship of any criticizing, banning any dissenting voice under the pretext of toxicity. Provide constructive criticism? Ban! Ask why you where ban? ban! Ask about mods? Ban!
- Blatant PR bullshit that show a appalling disrespect of the intellect of their customers. Looking at the responses to reviews that they can't simply delete (the horror!) is pretty disgusting. I mean, with what I have seen of the respect they have for their players, "Made without crunch by people who care about their players at a studio that cares about its people" sound like an admission of abusing the employees and crunching. The worst part is that they force us to watch it for several seconds every time we open the game, and it's unskippable. That doesn't look like what someone who respect the time of his players would do.
- The stance about mods. In the early development, the devs where moderators of the reddit and would delete/ban any discussion of it. Despite their years old responses "we would love it and are working on it", the only mods are language ones, which should not even be mods but be included in the base game. The topic seem to still be subject to censorship. My guess? You can't sell crappy dlc if peoples make amazing content mods.
- Raphael van Lierop, the ceo, has made a lot of statements over the years that are pretty telling of what kind of person he is and the overall ambiance of the studio. I'm not going to tell more, but you should look it up and judge for yourself.

Over all, I'm very disappointed that I gave money and supported a studio with these kind of practices.

I really like the style of the game but it doesn't do a very good job of explaining all of the mechanincs. It would be nice to have a tutorial in the game.
One more thing I'd like to point out is that you can't jump and there's no story mode(at least in the basegame or maybe I just couldn't find it).

This may be my new favorite game to play for fun.

Yes, it is an older game. But, it is a solid one. If you are into survival games, this is a good one. The make sure to tell you this is not some sort of survival training course. And, it isn't. But, it is a serious challenge to play. And, a fair bit of what it presents is accurate in real life.

This game has a lot going for it. There are two ways to play: story mode (Wintermute) and Survival. I hav enot tried story mode, but I have not heard great things about it.

Survival mode, however, is worth playing. Each play through is proceduraly generated. That means things you found at a location last time, may or may not be there next time. Wildlife may or may not generate at a given location.

The different areas have different difficulty levels. You can challenge yourself. Move from easier zones to more difficult ones--or vice-versa. Adding to the challenge, weather affects you differently depending on the zone you are in.Environment is grey and dreary. It makes the loneliness of solitude in winter real.

I play with a controller. And, there were some things I really had to scour the internet to figure out how to do. There were a few things other players told me about as well. And, that's another thing about this game. It has a pretty solid community, despite the age of the game.

This is an engaging, challenging, and addicting survival game. Well worth adding to your game inventory.

I played this game on my Xbox, and I spent over 60 hours playing it. Imo, it's the best survival game out there. Has lots of detail, beautiful and unique graphics, a great atmosphere, and more. It also has a nice option before you start a game to customize the rules of said game. So you can make wildlife spawn more/less, more/less loot, make it colder over time, etc if you want to.

I like taking it easy and setting the loot all the way up, disabling hostile wildlife, and making the temp forgiving. And just, chill. It can really calm me down.

Final rating: 10/10, don't see anything wrong with it tbh. (Good price tag too!)

I spent hours of my time, days in game time, wandering in circles because I was lost in a blizzard. Despite having a river to follow, I always ended up where I started. Because of the poor weather conditions, I couldn't fill out my map to see where I was located. Somehow, I managed to make it back to my camp, mostly frozen and barely alive, only to then get a game over of food poisoning because I accidentally ate the uncooked piece of venison instead of the many other, fully cooked, pieces of meat in my inventory. 10/10 would get lost in a blizzard again, but will now always carry antibiotics of some sort when doing so.

Lowkeyley this game is fire but its scary there are animals that chased me through the snow and on geekbob it scared me i haven't played it in months but its fire no cap no kizzy left pocket dog I'm honestly goated at this anyway on freakbob I recommend