

Every action costs Calories, and time is your most precious resource. Monitor your Hunger, Thirst, Fatigue, and Cold as you struggle to balance resources with the energy needed to obtain them. The game challenges players to think for themselves by providing the information but never the answers.

When you die in Survival, your save is deleted. The game that defined death for the survival genre. Make your own survival story with every game. Survival is your only goal, and death your only end. After years of open development and dozens of major updates, THE LONG DARK now stands at the pinnacle of the entire genre. Included with both THE LONG DARK: SURVIVAL EDITION and THE LONG DARK, Survival Mode is the free-form, non-narrative Survival Sandbox that has defined the genre since launching on Steam in 2014. In THE LONG DARK, you are getting both the genre-defining Survival Mode, honed after years of open development and frequent updates, and the award-winning episodic narrative mode, WINTERMUTE. Widely considered the paramount Survival game of all time, SURVIVAL EDITION gives you pure focus on THE LONG DARK’s Survival Sandbox - the experience that started it all!

THE LONG DARK: SURVIVAL EDITION brings you the genre-defining Survival Mode, honed after years of open development and frequent updates. There are no zombies - only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. Welcome to THE LONG DARK, the innovative exploration-survival experience Wired magazine calls "the pinnacle of an entire genre". You look at the meager supplies in your pack, and wish for the days before the power mysteriously went out. The wind rages outside the thin walls of your wooden cabin. Bright lights flare across the night sky.
