The Long Dark (PC)

There's also a lot of info on the Hinterland Forum (the developers are excellent at keeping everyone updated, and there's great interaction with the backers and others)

There's also an Interview/Article thread which contains links to a lot of direct one-on-one Q&A's about TLD [The Long Dark]. There's a lot of insight and details, covering a huge range of gameplay aspects, how/why TLD is different than the usual mass game approach to gaming, how/why major the Triple-AAA united for such an unusual project, etc. etc. etc.

You'll quickly see why there's such gaming buzz about TLD (and the developers are so community oriented that we backers feel like we're part of the Hinterlander family now)...

The backers physical goods (a lot of great stuff including signed artwork, posters, and TLD t-shirts to name just a few items) are already being prepared for shipping so most backers should receive them before Xmas if you get in on time -- and they're really close to reaching their 3rd stretch goal for even more game bonuses.

Alpha game version release for backers is tentatively slated for spring 2014, and the backers Beta release is slated for summer 2014 -- definitely consider one of the alpha/beta backing tiers to get your hands on the game long before its public release.

For real gaming techies, TLD will also be supporting Oculus Rift game play.

The Long Dark has set up a new forum (replacing the previous board and link):
www.hinterlandforums.com

I'm a backer for this game, and am very excited for it to drop onto Steam Early access (Sandbox, as opposed to narrative) next Monday - September 22nd! Art style is fantastic and the lack of zombies makes a nice difference.

richymcdermott wrote: »

i feel there is too many of these sort of games at the moment and being abit clustered, between games like the long dark and the forest , rust to be enough to be different enough.

I just stumbled on this now and the very first thing i thought of was "the forest", though obviously they look very different. one is more of a horror game than the other appears to be. I might end up getting one or both of them (once they come out of early access. I got stung last week with that)

Died of starvation.
Died from loss of blood.
Died from wolf attack.
Died from hypothermia.
Died from food poisoning after eating raw meat.

Longest I lasted was 3 days.

Started harvesting unwanted items to break them down into cloth, leather or metal to then use to repair your clothing so you can stay warmer for longer and last a bit longer.

Started harvesting from dead animals once i got a hunting knife, meat once cooked gives you 1000 calories, but not cooking it gives you food poisoning.

Need to start approaching it differently, until now I was just wandering looking to explore but it is too much of a wilderness to be able to make it too far. You need to set up supply drops on your trial and never be too far from your base with a fire to cook some grub and get warm and a bed.

Great game though.


edit:

Lasted 4 days 17 hours this time, every time i die i learn something new which is good. Makes starting over not feel pointless like it does in Day Z. This time it was to look out for circling birds as there is usually a corpse human or deer close by that you can get some grub off.

It really doesn't reward wandering like other games where things are hidden and you stubble across them. This game rewards thinking things out and punishes you hard for being foolish.

The map stays the same but the items randomize and it is so easy to get lost in a blizzard. The pain of setting off, walking for 15 mins to raluze you just done a big circle back to your foodless but !

New area has opened up with more houses but way more wolves too.

You can edit the title to say (PC/XB1) now too

Already have it on steam but will probably buy it on XB1 too. Great game!

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

You can edit the title to say (PC/XB1) now too

Already have it on steam but will probably buy it on XB1 too. Great game!

€9.50 from our soviet friends

i love survival games but this one feels a bit too.... real. Its more a simulator than anything else. I found most of the time I was exploring I just either bored senseless or being horribly killed. In the end I decided to give up for a few months and check it agian once theres a few more updates

I bought into it on a whim. It wasn't as interesting as I wanted it to be Story mode might change my opinion though.

Just had a go at this for the first time.. Lasted 15 days on my first go and honestly feel like that's a good place to leave the game.

Anyone here play it a lot? I find the walking speed to be quite annoying whereas I didn't think that with Firewatch.

Wasn't a fan of the story tbh. It's written poorly and has annoying gameplay.

The sandbox is much more fun.