With the launch of Episode Four, we’re increasing the price for The Long Dark to $34.99 USD ($5 increase). When we launched our 1.0 in August of 2017, we bumped the price up to $29.99 USD. When we had The Long Dark in Early Access on Steam and on Xbox Game Preview, it was priced at $19.99 USD. For our Survival Mode fans, Blackrock Region will be added to Survival Mode before the end of the year, along with a few other additions. True to our typical tradition, we aren’t announcing a release date until we are very close to launch, so stay tuned for that. Most of the bugs are fixed, and we’re in the final stages of localization, optimization, and preparing things for launch. The team is heading into the final stretch of the episode. Featuring 7-10 hours of gameplay, 60 minutes of narrative cinematics, and over 40 minutes of new music, Episode Four also introduces new key characters to the Wintermute storyline, and puts the final narrative threads in place that will later be resolved in Episode Five (ship date TBD). The episode takes place in a brand new region dominated by an old prison complex built under the shadow of Blackrock Mountain. Can Mackenzie recover the Hardcase, continue his search for Astrid, and also save the innocents caught up in this deadly confrontation? Desperate to escape one of the darkest corners of Great Bear Island, he must somehow survive his fiercest enemy yet.

Players will also face difficult moral choices that will affect the outcome of gameplay, story, and ultimately, the course of humanity’s recovery.Ī murderous gang of convicts has captured Mackenzie.

Gameplay emphasizes exploration to gather resources and knowledge about the world, while mastering a deep survival simulation to overcome the myriad natural and man-made hazards of the new frontier.

In the first season of this episodic series, players experience this grim new reality through the eyes of bush pilot William Mackenzie, isolated with other survivors in the Northern wilderness as a result of the event. Lost, wounded, and with wolves circling, you'll have to quickly master basic wilderness survival skills if you're to last long enough to understand how the world has changed since the aurorae appeared in the sky. You take on the role of William Mackenzie, a newly stranded bush pilot crashed far from the nearest human habitation. The breathtakingly picturesque Pacific Northwest frames the backdrop for the drama of The Long Dark. Everything that has shielded humanity from the disinterested power of Mother Nature is suddenly wrenched from us, dropping us a few links down the food chain. Bright aurora flare across the sky, and all humanity's technological might is laid to waste, neutralized in a kind of quiet apocalypse. Imagine the lights go out, never to return.

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