

There’s a sense of worry and abstract urgency here as I’m afraid my run is in jeopardy. Regions I’m not good at or unfamiliar with, I just go in, get what I can scavenge, and get out. At this point things are going pretty smoothly and I’m confident this is a good run.Īt days 400-500, I’ve collected a lot of stuff. Twenty or so bows, fifty (or more) arrows along with my rifle and fifty rounds of ammo. By this time I’d amassed my small arsenal too. Then moved everything I had collected to the Farmstead in Pleasant Valley, later in my run. I just piled my cloth in the corner of the Quonset in Coastal Highway. I wanted to clear regions out, scrap them for everything they are worth without sacrificing anything I’d already gained.īy days 300-400 I’d gathered every scrap of cloth I could find because I knew it would be important end-game. This sets me up for a good run, out of the gate, per se. I started in Mystery Lake and went for a prepper cache like I always do. This is a journal of thoughts as I tried to exist from one day to the next, one week to the next, one month to the next, to almost 3 years in-game.ĭays 1-300. So without further ado, I’d like to give the floor to someone far better at The Long Dark than I.Ī personal test of fortitude in the frozen Canadian wilderness Please take a moment to go peek at their content if you get a chance. His post is also available to be read at Survival Gamers, a site dedicated to survival games and news surrounding the genre. His adventure to surviving for 1000 days took a ton of time and effort, and he’s asked me to allow him to share the chronicles of his mindset during the quest to hit 1000 days.


There are few folks out there that I would consider to be an authority on how to play The Long Dark, and Joey is one of them.

Joey Puckett, also known as GrievingSage, is a longtime player of The Long Dark, and a friend of mine on Twitter for some time. Shelby: I believe some introductions are in order. Joey Puckett’s 1000 Days in The Long Dark on Stalker difficulty.
