Imagine the lights go out, never to return. Bright aurora flare across the sky, and all humanity's technological might is laid to waste, neutralized in a kind of quiet apocalypse. 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. Food and water are scarce. The roads are no longer safe. And winter approaches…

The breathtakingly picturesque Pacific Northwest frames the backdrop for the drama of The Long Dark. You take on the role of William Mackenzie, a newly stranded bush pilot crashed far from the nearest human habitation. 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. And that's just the beginning.

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. 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. Players will also face difficult moral choices that will affect the outcome of gameplay, story, and ultimately, the course of humanity’s recovery.

The first two episodes of Wintermute represent approximately 15 hours of gameplay. Episodes Three to Five are included in the price of the game, and will be unlocked for free as they are released. Features performances by Jennifer Hale, Mark Meer, David Hayter, and Elias Toufexis (Episode Three), and the music of Cris Velasco.

Four Days of Night is back this Halloween! Join us for some lighthearted fun in this time-limited event.

Just launch the game between Saturday, October 27th at 11 pm PDT, and Wednesday, October 31st, at 11 pm PDT, select “Four Days of Night” from the Main Menu, and do your best to survive as long as you can.

If you don’t want to participate, simply continue playing Story, Survival, or Challenges as usual!

This year’s event sees some significant improvements:

Daily Challenges

Each day brings its own unique horrors to survive through: brutal weather conditions, tuned wildlife behaviors and spawn rates etc. Daily challenges kick in at 11pm PDT every day, starting from October 27th, and each lasts a full 24h. We will update this post accordingly with every new daily challenge.

Players who manage to survive long enough will unlock those unique badges:

• Twilight Badge: Survived for 2 real-time hours for any two days of the event.
• Midnight Badge: Survived for 2 real-time hours for all four days of the event.

For the first time, we’re bringing 4DON to our Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players, in addition to Steam. Jump into the conversation around Four Days of Night and use the #4don hashtag on Twitter, or discuss it in our dedicated community thread.

This year, you can kick off Four Days of Night right from the Main Menu! No need to opt-in to a separate branch. Keep in mind that save files will be 4DON-specific, and are only useful for this year’s event.

Features:

• Immersive first-person exploration gameplay featuring a stunning, original art style. Players take on the role of franchise protagonist, Will Mackenzie, as he navigates the savage beauty of the Northern Wilderness and faces the hazards of the new “post-digital” frontier.
• Be on the lookout for potential supply caches, all the while using survival skills to overcome hazards introduced by harsh weather, wildlife, lack of food and water, and other survivors.
• Deep survival simulation gameplay where every decision matters. Explore a large open world in search of resources, and balance Condition and Willpower against the needs of your daily survival.
• Morally challenging scenarios that challenge players to answer the question: “How far will you go to survive?” Any survivor you meet in the world can be friend or foe. Will you risk your life to discover what they know and selflessly sacrifice for the common good, or live — and potentially die — by the adage “might makes right”?
• Rich episodic fiction featuring dozens of locations, a cast of memorable characters, and a mature post-disaster storyline inspired by the creative risk-taking we see in many of today’s exciting television series. This isn’t the end of the world, but you can see it from here.
• Survival Story mode provides hours of narrative-driven exploration gameplay where you play as Will Mackenzie, struggling to understand what has happened to the world. Survival Sandbox mode provides potentially hundreds of hours of free-form survival gameplay where you push yourself and your skill to last as long as possible in a variety of survival scenarios.

The Long Dark is currently available on PC (Steam), PS4 and Xbox One for $29.99.