The Long Dark's next chapter is a frozen prison drama

Last I checked in, The Long Dark was a halting near trudging through the snow and excavation tins of beans outgoing of old shacks. Then I'm amazed to discover than the next episodic expansion for the survival sim is a prison house thriller that sees you not only frozen and starving, simply stuck behind bars.

Teased with a new trailer this week, Episode 4: Craze, Then Secrecy sees you shackled and dragged and tossed into a cell in roughly abandoned penitentiary. A mysterious vocalism on the phone teases that you'll consume to pick a side in a "stalemate" within the prison house, patc your feller inmates intimate that they may be the one keeping you all alive at all.

Your closest cellmate appears to be voiced by no differently Adam Jensen actor Elias Toufexis (whose character reference presumptively ne'er asked for this, hurr hurr), and appears to equal the head of one of these prison factions. The Long Dark has been on this fib-driven pivot for some time, and, as a lapsed survivor, it's impressive how much the vitality and voice acting has exploded in quality over these updates.

Sequence 4: Delirium, Then Silence launches on Mon, Oct 6. After that, developer Back country testament prepare to bring The Long Uncheerful's rimy thriller to a close with a final, every bit-yet-unannounced fifth chapter.

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