The Long Dark: Wintermute (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Long Dark: Wintermute

The episodic story-mode for The Long Dark, WINTERMUTE, includes four of the five episodes that form WINTERMUTE. Episode Five is in development, and is slated for a late 2023 release. This will bring the…

1 August 2017

What The Long Dark: Wintermute is

The Long Dark: Wintermute is an adventure game developed by Hinterland Studio Inc. and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The premise of Wintermute centres around the relationship between Dr. Astrid Greenwood and a bush pilot named Will Mackenzie, whom she hires to fly her and her mysterious hardcase to a remote location in the Canadian wilderness of Great Bear Island. After a mysterious geomagnetic disaster causes their plane to crash land, Astrid and Will become separated. Now the two must survive this cold and unforgiving landscape they find themselves stranded in while doing whatever it takes to reunite safely. Experience the story from their perspectives, and face the struggle to survive head on.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Long Dark: Wintermute launched on 1 August 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Sonic Mania. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Sonic Mania.

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