With each thing you find, craft, or repair, and with every skill you level up, the game gets a tiny bit easier and your chances of surviving each day get a tiny bit better.Īll the little details combine to make an amazing survival experience.
While most games get more difficult, or adapt in difficulty, The Long Dark is the opposite.
The Long Dark actually gets easier the longer you survive. Should you repair a jacket you found to increase your warmth bonus? Or is that time better spent foraging for food? The more you play The Long Dark the better you'll get at identifying the game's subtle and brilliant mechanics and making those tricky decisions. One thing to always remember in The Long Dark is each tiny decision can be critical to life or death. How long can you stay alive? Until your last match? Until a wolf inevitably ambushes you? Or maybe you stumbled on a sleeping bear? It's likely you'll die of exposure to the elements or lack of food or water. It is meditative, brutal, beautiful, and addicting.
Especially after I decided Interloper mode was the perfect challenge for me. I love this game. Keep dying in The Long Dark? Don't feel bad.
