2017 · Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
How long isThe Long Dark?
by Hinterland Studio Inc.
25 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 8 hours and 77 hours
The Long Dark among the 178 survival games here
The whole tier list#40
of 178
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 57%
- got past 2 hours
- +9 on the kind's 49%
- 15%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 13%
- 72%
- launched it
- +7 on the kind's 66%
- 396
- libraries own it
- 1 in 6 of the 2,453 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Almost never seen through: only 0.7% of the players who launched it hold its last story achievement.
70% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
88% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
91% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
92% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
92% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
90% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
89% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
88% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
87% recommend it past 500 hours
Does The Long Dark hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of The Long Dark tell you?
In the first two hours70%recommend it
After that90%recommend it
11 in 100 said no: 9 after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 25 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 8 hours and 77 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 124,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 10–20 hours: 92% of them. Among players past 500 hours that falls to 87%.
7% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 70% of those recommend it. After the window, 90% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 81% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 19 hours in.
When would you get there?
4weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 25 hours on Tuesday, December 8.
Half of its reviewers had played between 8 and 77 hours: Nov 21 to Jan 29, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in The Long Dark?
The filter
The Long Winter
11 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Paradise Lost and never earned it.
How this is counted
47% of the players who launched The Long Dark hold Your Journey Begins, its first story achievement on Steam, and 0.7% hold Wild At Heart, its last. The steepest drop comes between Paradise Lost (38%) and The Long Winter (27%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Is The Long Dark worth it?
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One hour, at list price
The Long Dark
- Steam list price, US
- $34.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 25 h
- survival game rate
- $2.00/h
- 25 h at that rate
- $50
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Long Dark worth it? Mostly.
Good value
1.4× the hours of a typical survival game, for the same money
Loved
90% recommend it after the refund windowmost survival games: 85%
Usually played
72% of owners here have played itmost survival games: 68%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $34.99, the typical player's 25 hours come to $1.40 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.40 an hour, The Long Dark is cheaper per hour than 191 of 279 survival games here: the typical one of 279 survival games here charges $2.00, so the same $34.99 buys 1.4× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (survival games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Is The Long Dark better now than at launch?
September 2014
96%
≈ 752 reviews
Now
76%
≈ 12,300 reviews
How this is counted
Its Steam reviews began in September 2014. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 96% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 76% do.
One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.
Where can I play The Long Dark today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch and 2 more.
- todayPS42017
- todayPC2017
- todayXbox One2017
- todaySwitch2020
- todayXbox Series2025
- todayPS52025
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Long Dark came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like The Long Dark?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Long Dark, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Long Dark would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@ravage holds this page
- 1st
@ravage20 h - 2nd
@nestortillo9.3 h - 3rd
@catch8.2 h - 4th
@zocchihedron8.1 h - 5th
@goofy-ahh-face5.8 h - 6th
@rouge-cjcinjona3.7 h - 7th
@mor4ee2.8 h - 8th
@poor-leno2.6 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with The Long Dark?
- C
The middle pick of 10 players on the Steam tier list
1 in 125
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from The Long Dark: a kind of game it is that The Long Dark is not, a feature its tags carry that The Long Dark's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.