The Long Dark
Welcome to The Long Dark, the innovative exploration-survival experience Wired magazine calls "the pinnacle of an entire genre". The game is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo…
The Long Dark is an adventure developed by Hinterland Studio Inc., released 1 August 2017 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $4.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 48 hrs to finish.
What The Long Dark is
The Long Dark is an adventure game developed by Hinterland Studio Inc. and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bright lights flare across the night sky. The wind rages outside the thin walls of your wooden cabin. A wolf howls in the distance. You look at the meager supplies in your pack, and wish for the days before the power mysteriously went out. How much longer will you survive?
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, sandbox and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 87 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Long Dark holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 204 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 48 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 235 hrs, roughly 4.9 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.99, that works out to about $0.10 per hour of the main story, or $0.02 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual-Core Intel i5 CPU @ 2GHz+, 4 GB RAM and Intel 4xxx Series w/ 512MB VRAM or better. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.99 at Steam, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Long Dark launched on 1 August 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Sonic Mania. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Sonic Mania.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Long Dark yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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