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The Long Dark

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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
The Long Dark on HowLongToBeat
The Long Dark on IGDB
The Long Dark on MobyGames
The Long Dark on Wikipedia

General information

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

Availability

All 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

Video

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

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Technically Vert- but selecting a 21:9 resolution lets the user increase the FOV beyond the 16:9 limit of 100.[4]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
70-100° (horizontal). The FOV range will increase to 150 if the aspect ratio is greater than 2.5.[5]
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
No dedicated option. High and Ultra presets force AA.[6]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

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

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Several keybinds are locked and cannot be changed, but most can be remapped.
Mouse acceleration
On by default but can be turned off in the options menu under "controls" then "mouse smoothing".
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
One preset available.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound, music, and voice sliders.
Surround sound
Outputs 7.1 surround[7]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

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[8]

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

Mods working with the latest version can be found and installed here.

System requirements

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