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?
The Long Dark is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore a vast, frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies—only you, the cold, and everything nature throws at you.
Honed over years of open development and major updates, Survival Mode offers the definitive sandbox experience in the survival genre. There's no hand-holding—every decision matters, and death means your save is deleted.
Objective-based scenarios designed to last 1–3 hours each, such as:
An episodic narrative adventure split into five parts (four available now):
Episode Five is in development and will be released as a free update.
Unlike Survival Mode, Wintermute allows players to save their progress. The game features voice performances by Jennifer Hale, Mark Meer, David Hayter, and Elias Toufexis, with music composed by Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan.