The unkind fate threw William McKenzie (a former pilot) straight into the middle of a frigid Canadian wilderness, soon after a geomagnetic disaster. Waking up somewhere in a dark forest, the only thing he sees around is snow, ice and not a living soul in within kilometers. Equipped with the rest of his victuals, he will soon find out that he won’t survive there unless he will start to think about a shelter and anything to eat. Welcome to harsh world of The Long Dark. The world of geomagnetic apocalypse, which turned all the human’s technological development into waste, exposing human beings to disinterested power of Mother Nature. Survival means going off the beaten tracks, looking for abandoned cabins, barns or lodges, where you can wait the unbearable weather and find some useful artefacts. 

The Long Dark gameplay focuses more on the survival aspect than on atrocious fights known from other survival horror titles. You won’t find here any zombies, dinosaurs or mutants. Just pure nature in all its glory and might. A piece of cake? Not if you take into account such factors like hunger, thirst, illnesses, fatigue, temperature and many others. You will have to cleverly dispose your energies, as well as smoothly adapt to the conditions of the given day. Sometimes it would be better to hide in your lodge for few more hours or wait until the wolves will kill a deer instead of making heroic solo charges.