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Revision as of 11:19, 19 April 2020

The Long Dark
The Long Dark cover
Developers
Hinterland
Engines
Former Unity 5[Note 1]
Unity 2018[Note 2]
Release dates
Windows August 1, 2017[3]
macOS (OS X) August 1, 2017[3]
Linux August 1, 2017[3]
Reception
Metacritic 77
OpenCritic 78
IGDB 81
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The Long Dark on IGDB
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The Long Dark on MobyGames
The Long Dark on Wikipedia
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General information

Official forums
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Humble Store
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
 Xbox Play Anywhere, Xbox Game Pass for PC
Windows
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
All OS X and Linux versions require Steam DRM.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Remove video files[citation needed]
  1. Navigate to <path-to-game>\tld_Data\StreamingAssets\Video\Windows\ and delete the file "intro_cards".
  2. Navigate to <path-to-game>\tld_Data\StreamingAssets\Video\Windows\Tutorials\ and delete the file "tutorial_test".

Game data

Accessibility settings.
Accessibility settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hinterland\TheLongDark\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Hinterland/The Long Dark/
Additional (Unity?) configuration files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d/Hinterland/TheLongDark/
Configuration files appear to be encrypted.
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hinterland\TheLongDark\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Hinterland/The Long Dark/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video settings

Display settings.
Display settings.
Quality settings.
Quality settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.
Key bindings.
Key bindings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

Issues fixed

Black screen on launch in Linux version

Error occurs after launching the Linux version of the game from Steam.
Add the following to the game's launch options[4]

Add the following to the game's launch options: LD_PRELOAD=~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 -screen-fullscreen 1 -screen-width "width" -screen-height "height" -force-glcore42 -force-clamped where "width" and "height" should be replaced with your screen resolution's width and height.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Input Rewired

Mods

The Mod-Installer offers a user-friendly GUI for installing mods.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5 Dual-Core 2 GHz Intel Core i7 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel 4xxx Series
512 MB of VRAM 		Nvidia GeForce GTX 555
1 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.9.3 10.9.3
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 2.7 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB 1 GB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics 5000 Dedicated standalone GPU
1 GB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) SteamOS
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5 Dual-Core 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Intel 4xxx Series
512 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. ↑ Unity engine build: 5.6.3p3[1]
  2. ↑ Unity engine build: 2018.4.4f1[2]

References

  1. ↑ Verified by User:Vetle on 2018-03-19
  2. ↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-10-22
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Long Dark - News - Frequently Asked Questions
  4. ↑ Verified by User:FantaBuoy on 2019-01-21
    Tested on Arch Linux - kernel 4.20.3