The Long Dark is a life experience. It's finding moments of calm and beauty despite difficult times. It's focusing on the next best step to survive. Whilst real life is overwhelming, in game you focus on your next imperative and it's almost meditative. It's finding your why, and playing it your way.

UK friends: in the words of Tesco, every little helps.

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No, that's a hairstyle named after a mistress of King Louis XV of France.

It's a type of fruit, sort of spiky but very sweet and chunky inside, with a big green top Costa Rica is famous for growing them hope this helps ——>🍍

Amazing. I mean - I've been wanting to interview you for ages. Could we maybe noodle together this as a framework for it, and open it up into wider ecological themes as we go? I think it would be such a lovely and interesting conversation sometime.

Oh wow. The parallels. (I'm so sorry. It's just the hardest thing.) I'm so glad you found TLD helped, as I did. And as you say: the process of clearing out the family home, again and again, was that decision: who am I now, and what do I take, going forward? What's important and what remains true?

It’s one of my all-time favorite games. It’s absolutely gorgeous, and made by an incredible. Explore the quiet* apocalypse. *Until you get mauled by a grizzly. A heavy snow is falling. You’re bleeding out. You can’t feel your feet. Find shelter, make some reishi tea, and patch up that wound, fast.

Yaaaaaaaay. 🎉 Yet another reason you're awesome, then.

It's really good at catering to all difficulties - the easiest, Pilgrim, is *extremely* forgiving & the wildlife (wolves, bears etc) is no threat, so you can explore to your heart's content. There are 5 difficulty levels above that, and also Custom, where you can adjust dozens of settings.

Since some have asked if I'm being paid to promote this studio: Hahahaha not at all! 😂 Despite me spending 6 hrs every day for the last 8 years outside their Canada offices with a megaphone? Zilch. HAHA only joking.😂 Canada gets bloody cold in the winter, so Nov-Apr I only do 3 hours a day. 👍

I'm sorry, I take it all back! Save yourself! And definitely please don't imagine yourself obsessively exploring this huge map, which itself is just one of the 21 interconnected regions that make uo the whole island (so far).

Hooray! There is a *huuuuge* amount of game in there nowadays, and you will have so much fun getting so, so lost in it. I've put thousands of hours into the sandbox version since 2014,and I ain't done yet - especially since they're still adding new DLCs and free updates.

Dammit. Why didn't that work?

Also, this is the first thing you see when you load the game. They're the real deal, folks.

Best reason to go off the record.

Thank *you* for over a decade of unforgettable fun and terror. 🙂

If you're looking for an amazing game with a hauntingly beautiful world to get lost in, grab The Long Dark while it's on offer. It's vast & gorgeous & punishing in the way only the best games are - when you get into trouble (which you will, a LOT), you'll only have yourself to blame. Also... 1/