Last updated on December 8th, 2022 at 03:11 pm
The Long Dark has 8.5 million gamers, and the fourth episode of the campaign is almost ready
Studio Hinterland has announced that The Long Dark, an action-adventure survival game, has sold 5 million copies. Besides, she told me how many people played it in the Epic Games Store (the project was handed out for free) and in the Xbox Game Pass.
As it turned out, the total in the Xbox Game Pass and Epic Games Store (after the distribution of The Long Dark as part of the Christmas promotion), the figure was 3.5 million “active” players. It turns out that the number of gamers involved in the project is currently more than 8.5 million.
The team is currently working on the fourth episode of The Long Dark, which includes new locations and gameplay mechanics. The development stage has reached the stage when the episode can already be fully completed – there are a couple of small areas left to finish. After that, Hinterland will move on to refinement, testing, and optimization. Besides, the script for the fifth episode has already been written.
Besides, the studio posted a poll in which it wants to know how the players want to see the fifth episode. This will help shape Hinterland’s plans.
The Long Dark is a survival simulator with a story campaign divided into episodes. The protagonist in a global catastrophe survived a plane crash in Canada and is trying to realize the disaster scale. The game is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
