
The game features a story mode, a sandbox survival mode and an objective-based challenge mode. Players are thrust into the shoes of Will Mackenzie, a pilot whose plane crashed in the remote wilderness and must now struggle to survive while looking for his friend amongst the snowy tundra of Great Bear Island.

Today, we’re taking a look at Hinterland Studio Inc.’s “The Long Dark,” a first-person, single-player survival experience set in the frozen Canadian wilderness in the wake of a geomagnetic disaster. Welcome to the first entry of The Backlog for the new year.

There are few games able to deliver as immersive of a single-player survival experience as “The Long Dark.”
