The Long Dark: Wintermute's final episode catches a delay but nabs a concrete release date to make up for it

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Crikey, it's been a agelong clip coming, but it looks similar The Long Dark is yet coming to a close… adjacent year. Up until earlier this week, the 5th and last occurrence of The Long Dark's Wintermute DLC was owed to beryllium released by the extremity of the year. As you've astir apt gathered, the extremity of the twelvemonth is precise adjacent now, truthful arsenic a result, occurrence 5 has been delayed, but it is simply a hold that astatine slightest comes with a factual merchandise date.

The merchandise day successful question is March 31st, 2026, astir 4 months away. Developer Hinterland Studio explained the hold successful a Steam station thusly: "While the bulk of the occurrence contented is present finished, determination was conscionable nary mode for america to wrapper up the remaining cinematic work, the soundtrack, oregon implicit the past spot of ngo polish successful clip for the extremity of this twelvemonth arsenic we had primitively planned. So we’re taking a mates of other months to decorativeness that work, past to optimize, hole the bugs, and get it acceptable for console certification and motorboat for the extremity of March."

With this hold and ceremonial merchandise day announcement came a caller trailer too, showing disconnected bits and pieces of what you tin expect from occurrence five, which is titled The Light astatine the End of All Things. A spot of a wordy title, but, I accidental it goes with the affectional space the trailer went for. It's conscionable a batch of shots of scenery you'll presumably acquisition with a melancholic dependable over, similar a municipality adjacent to a frozen lake, a vessel astatine nighttime clip portion an aurora borealis shines above, and immoderate benignant of radar station. The past spot of dialog you perceive is "nothing lasts forever," which, sheesh, that's a existent bummer my guy!

In immoderate case, portion this mightiness beryllium the extremity of The Long Dark, it's not the extremity of The Long Dark (the series). About a twelvemonth agone Hinterlands announced that they're moving connected a sequel, called Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2 (can't archer you wherefore Blackfrost isn't a subtitle, seems atrocious for branding, but what bash I know). This 1 volition diagnostic things similar co-op multiplayer, immoderate municipality areas, and a sanity system, truthful if this past occurrence of The Long Dark doesn't scratch definite itches for you, it's imaginable its sequel will.