The Long Dark is a first-person survival video game developed and published by Hinterland Studio. The player assumes the role of a crash-landed bush pilot who must survive the frigid Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic regional storm disaster. The objective is for the player to survive as long as possible by scavenging and utilizing whatever resources they may find within the world.
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The Long Dark is a first-person survival video game developed and published by Hinterland Studio. The player assumes the role of a crash-landed bush pilot who must survive the frigid Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic regional storm disaster. An alpha version was released through Steam Early Access in September 2014. The game was later launched on the Xbox One as one of the first two launch titles associated with Microsoft’s Game Preview Program in June 2015. It was officially released on all aforementioned platforms on August 1, 2017, as well as for PlayStation 4. On September 17, 2020, it was announced that the game would be coming to Nintendo Switch later that same day. A film adaptation of The Long Dark was in the works. A redux version of the game was released in December 2018 and two episodes of the five-part story were released in January and February of the same year. The first episode of the story, entitled “Do Not Go Gentle’s”, was released together with the second episode called “Luminance Fugue’” in December 2014, and the third and fourth episodes will be released in February and March of 2019 respectively. The video game has sold around 750,000 copies by April 2016.
It has been released in 11 regions, as 5 have since been introduced. The objective is for the player to survive as long as possible by scavenging and utilizing whatever resources they may find within the world. This includes commodities such as food, water, firewood, medicine, and tools such as weapons, axes, knives, and a myriad of other items. Wildlife is also present, such as deer which can be hunted for food, and wolves and bears which are a constant threat to the player as they venture outside. All items and wildlife are randomly spawned for every new game, so no two games will be alike for the players. The save game system enforces careful decision making by player. The game also simulates a full daynight cycle which is a fundamental part of thegame. There are currently 11 regions in the game,. These are named: “Mountain Town’, “Broken Railroad”,. “Hushed River Valley”. “Bleak Inlet’ and “Ash Canyon” and ‘Timberwolf Mountain’. The player can also get sick from food poisoning and disease, which are random during every playthrough, both of which are Random.
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