Zack L

The Long Dark is aptly named. The constant dance between the player and the crushing environment that does not want you to survive. Morbidly beautiful and haunting it's incredibly easy to find yourself sucked into the immersive world of the game set in the unforgiving and deadly Canadian wilderness as you scavenge abandoned cars, frozen corpses, scraps of wood and stone just survive another night. The feeling of dread never leaves even as you get better and better at the game despite no matter how long you survive it is inevitable that the long dark will lay you to sleep forever. Each death is permanent. Each mistake no matter how tiny is punishing and can set you back hours or even days of progress if it doesn't kill you. The ambience of the world is captivating and will suck you in immediately. Leaving a sense of fear,anxiety, joy, pride, frustration and jubilee as all of these emotions occur at many different points of your gameplay You feel joy as you find a few cans of preserved peaches in a run-down abandoned watch tower...that moment of joy passes faster than it came as a sudden change in weather results in a freak blizzard blinding your path home. You wander aimlessly until you succumb to the cold and fade away to nothing as you tell yourself "i knew I should have left a trail of stones to find my way home". That feeling of defeat humbles you That feeling of joy drives you You learn from your mistakes each and every time. .next thing you know you've survived 10 days...20 days....50 days...100 days... And then....you die again on the 101st day.... Or maybe you don't...you think to yourself you mastered this game.....that is....until... You launch a new game in a harder difficulty...using what you learned from previous attempts you wager you'll go far...and yet you die harder and faster than you ever had That's because hinterland wants to ensure you never forget that you were not intended to live. "You are not a part of nature's plans" - Hinterland Studios Truly a game worth playing, its become a muse to me with its haunting beauty. It has a rather steep learning curve if you want to excell but at base value its simple in execution and easy to pick up. Its a game that you will constantly be learning as you go and improving so don't give up