This game has given me a new hope for Early access games,I never thought I would say that,but it really does !!
The Long Dark sat in my wishlist for 7 months and if I would've known how much enjoyment it was going to bring me I would've bought it then and saved the hundreds of dollars I spent on games that held my interest for an hour or two and were then deleted and the next new one played and put aside and on and on. . . .

Very intense gameplay and omfg it's so much fun and what a challenge !!

You can play so many different ways too,you can explore and gather everything you can find or you can try and hunt and gather to survive for the long haul,you can be just a hunter and try to live off of the things mother nature offers or you can set up a cushy home base and go out on re-cons to exhaust all the resources of one area and then move to another and on and on. . . .

And thats just the start of it !! Hinterland Studios has kept their word and give us very regular updates and are always expanding the game,adding new areas to explore and new ways to do things and all of that is in EA !!
We're waiting on the next update and hopefully it's going to be the new story mode I've been researching on the Hinterland forums,it promises to be something very special !!

For now,we have around a 22 km of map to explore,survive in and if its your cup of tea(or coffee or soda) to exploit !!
I cannot express enough in this review,how much pleasure this game has brought to me and it does it all without one single monster,zombie,evil warlords or any other catchy little thing most of todays devs are tossing into survivor type games !! It's all mother nature and her critters !!

So,in a nut shell,buy this game if survival is what your into or if your into hunting or exploring,just buy the game,it's a 20 very well spent !!
Thank you Hinterland Studios,for the best game in my library !!!