The Long Dark

I buy a game released in 2017 during a sale in 2025. In 2026 I get to the point where I want to try a new game and so I boot it up. The first thing the game released in 2017 shows me is a boo hoo weepy message from The Raped™ telling me how they feel about generative AI. I do not care about your gay ass stance on gen AI. I do not follow your studio on twitter or bluesky or wherever else you go to cry about it. I do not give a ♥♥♥♥ about the things you have to say other than what is relevant to the product you have sold me, and you have obnoxiously inserted a topical message from current year in a game released nearly a decade ago. It would be bad enough if they added a main menu option; I would still consider that to be overbearing and poor taste. These ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ have the audacity to make it the literal first thing I have to see upon booting this game up, every time. It's bad enough that basically all games released in the 2010s have hamfisted political stank smeared all over it, but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who made this had the audacity to retrofit the politisperging of their game with current issues. I have no idea if this game is good or not but I will never play it because the devs saw fit to hijack the Steam update service to deliver ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I didn't ask for or care about directly to my consumer eyeballs and I don't think that's an acceptable practice. I paid like two dollars for the privilege of getting lectured by them and I would demand my money back if I could.

i played for like an hour. its way too hard i kept freezing to death it was the short dark for me

Прекрасная игра. Радовала на протяжении многих лет и продолжает радовать как в бесконечном режиме выживания, так и в недавно вышедшем в окончательный финал сюжетом и всеми пятью эпизодами в нём. Игра, которая способна погрузить и невероятно передать атмосферу происходящую на острове великого медведя. Обязательно рекомендую к ознакомлению с данной классикой игрового мира и желаю потрясающего погружения в игру !

''Mackenzie. My Love. Whatever you do. Wherever you have to go. Promise me one thing. You won't let this new world break you. And promise me. I will see you... again.''

Let's be clear: the survival mode and the first three seasons of Wintermute are the GOAT. Absolutely recommended. But episodes 4 and 5? Not so much. Episode 5 is especially frustrating. There is literally nothing left of the survival aspect. It’s just a linear fetch-quest with points of interest on an empty map that isn't worth exploring. The narrative consistency completely falls apart, too. NPCs basically teleport. Where MacKenzie spends days struggling to get somewhere, someone else just breezes through the distance in a couple of hours. The entire plot of the fifth episode, particularly the ending, relies on lazy writing, absurd coincidences, and a whole pantheon of deus ex machina. It’s a shame, because the first three seasons and survival mode set the bar so high, making these final episodes an incredibly disappointing conclusion.

难以想象，十年等待终成笑话，剧情毫无逻辑，人物塑造直接反转崩塌，最后的最后，结局居然是一坨巨大的shat。为了让麦肯齐作为第二部中游荡者出现，蠢驴ZZZ完全不顾剧情是否合理，就强行无脑推进剧情。第二章中敢与熊搏斗的麦肯齐到后面完全变成了鸡仔，任人羞辱宰割。且在终章能跑时不跑，居然强行在敌人眼皮子底下睡觉被抓！让我一度怀疑这是否是人类能写出来的剧情，最后直接与囚犯成为一伙或者说是成为囚犯的奴隶。最后，我个人建议不要掏钱吃shat，该玩盗的就去玩盗，一分钱也别给蠢驴ZZZ赚了。

Certamente um dos meus jogos favoritos. Transmite uma paz ao mesmo tempo que desafia.