The Long Dark
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The Long Dark Trailers
The Long Dark -- "Make It Right" -- WINTERMUTE LAUNCH TRAILER
The Long Dark - Launch Teaser Trailer | PS4
Critic Reviews for The Long Dark
Deep, brutal, and hauntingly atmospheric, The Long Dark is a survival game done right.
The wilderness is satisfyingly unforgiving. The world is fun to explore, but story mode offers a lackluster narrative
Bugs and a rough story weaken what is, at its core, a great survival game.
The Long Dark is an onerous experience, but a memorably and powerfully atmospheric one. Its Survival mode stands out as something of a singular achievement on the Switch – and one we'd urge you to try if you don't mind freezing to death more than a few times before you've got a grip on how to last a couple of nights. It's difficult to call it outright fun given its sheer hostility, but it's certainly absorbing and at times downright terrifying game. Just like real life, nature is the real enemy.
In a genre which is suffocating, The Long Dark stands out among the crowd as perhaps the best. Brutal, unforgiving survival wrapped up in a very plausible scenario where beauty kills.
Despite some graphical concessions, The Long Dark on Nintendo Switch is an excellent port of a very good survival game
A good survival experience that could have been even better with a little more polish on its console versions.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
While the story mode leaves something to be desired, the survival mechanics of The Long Dark's sandbox make it worthwhile. We have three more episodes of Will's journey to weave a wider story throughout the alternately unforgiving and inviting Canadian terrain. In the meantime, I'll be sitting back with my coffee mug, reflecting on my own small stories within The Long Dark.
