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2017 · Adventure · Indie · Simulation

How long isThe Long Dark?

by Hinterland Studio Inc.

25 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 8 hours and 77 hours

Does The Long Dark hold up?

It is recommended most by players at 10–20 hours: 92% of them. Among players past 500 hours that falls to 87%.

How long would it take you?

Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in The Long Dark, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

@catch holds this page

  1. 1st@catch8.2 h
  2. 2nd@poor-leno2.6 h
  3. 3rdopen– – –

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

Is The Long Dark worth it?

  • 90%recommend it once the refund window has closed
  • 92 → 87%it wears thin: at 10–20 hours, then past 500 hours
  • 32 of 91Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it

Do the first two hours of The Long Dark tell you?

In the first two hours70%recommend it

After that90%recommend it

16 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 4 while a refund was still possible.

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.

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.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Your Journey BeginsEscape the ravine after your crash.−5347% hold it
  3. Paradise LostMake your way to Milton.−938% hold it
  4. The Long WinterPrepare Grey Mother for Winter.Filtered −1127% hold it
  5. Leaving the Old World BehindLeave Milton. Complete Episode One.−720% hold it
  6. The Old TrapperBring Jeremiah back from near death.−218% hold it
  7. Lights in the SkySurvive the first Aurora event.−315% hold it
  8. Freight-Train of Hate & HungerKill the Old Bear.−411% hold it
  9. Hippocratic OathRescue all three lost Survivors and stock the Hall with supplies.−47.2% hold it
  10. Welcome to the Sh#tshowFind Medicine for the Warden.−15.9% hold it
  11. QuarantineExplore Perseverance Mills.−32.5% hold it
  12. Wild At HeartDefeat and kill the Cougar stalking the Geothermal Region.−20.7% hold it

How far do players get in The Long Dark?

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%).

Is The Long Dark better now than at launch?

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.

Did everyone who owns The Long Dark play it?

32 of 91

Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it

One case is one library's copy, lit as far as its hours go.Never launched

How well is The Long Dark remembered?

1 in 132

Name 100 runs say its name, 0.8% of them: players asked to name 100 games from memory.

How this page counts

The hours
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 bead 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.
The price
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. 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.
Where players stop
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.
Then and now
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.
Everyone's copy
Counted from the Steam libraries read here, not from all of Steam's players.