The Long Dark

The Long Dark is a first-person survival game set across frozen Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic event kills the power grid. You manage calories, warmth, and fatigue while scavenging abandoned buildings for supplies—canned food, matches, cloth for bandages. Wildlife includes wolves and bears that attack if you get too close. Weather shifts from clear to blizzard, forcing you to find shelter or risk hypothermia. Fire requires kindling, fuel, and a ignition source you'll eventually run out of. Crafting turns deer hides into coats, saplings into arrows. No quest markers tell you where to go. Death is permanent in survival mode. A separate story mode adds voiced characters and scripted objectives across the same maps. It's slow-paced problem-solving for players who want nature, not monsters, as the threat.