The Long Dark - playing through the Wintermule story.
Capt'n has been playing in digital snow. He has yet to find a way to burn it to check if it is real snow or CIA snow.
The Long Dark is a first-person survival computer game developed and published by, Canadian, Hinterland Studio. The player assumes the role of Will, a crash-landed bush pilot who must survive the frigid Canadian wilderness of Great Bear Island after a strange and repeating phenomenon has made all electronics inoperable.
The game is cinematic and beautifully atmospheric, can bring on a surge of adrenaline as your survival is threatened, however its characters seem to be lacking a little in originality or decent characterisation.
The story is simple. Survive the winter wilds and find the other person you were traveling with.
Along the way you will meet various cold, unhappy and sometimes down right cantacerous (yet poorly acted) people. These missfits will be the only living Humans to be found and will task you to do a bunch of (at times annoying) errands before they will tell you which direction towards death you should trudge next.
You will no doubt uncover many other Humans no longer living.
The cold, the wet, the starvation, many wolves, hulking bears.
These are your woes.
But the views are spectacular.
Jeremiah's Cabin
Title Screen
Towards the Rail Depo
Wow! It's so beautiful!