Failure

That's what I expected, thank you.

I'll make it as quick as possible. I purchased the game in early access 06.2016, but I knew about it for much longer, just wasn't sure it is what I want, that was the reason of my delayed purchase. It will soon be 3 years, and The Long Dark is nothing, but a huge disappointment, at least it didn't cost a fortune and I paid only 6.79 Euro for it [sale], way too late for a refund, but I guess for 6.79, the very first hours in the game were amazing, unfortunately... were, since in these 3 years, nothing changed. Survival is exactly the same survival it used to be, nothing new, I mean, nothing new of great importance, nothing new that would make anyone really want to replay the game, no game changing/breaking stuff being added, just details, but these detail are like painting a rust, you can mask it, but it's still there. I remember how hyped I was for the game, and it's all gone now, reading the Steam forum I come across exactly what I'm writing here, same in the negative reviews. Newbies will be happy, but after couple hours they'll be gone, because The Long Dark offers completely no real replayability. Once you did it once, it's enough. It's not MMORP to farm items, I can't really count how many times I had deja vu, doing the same thing in order, for days. What for? So I can get some achievements, and stuff like that? I wonder, is anything planned for Survival mode, or has this game reached its developing limits? I'm asking for something huge, a complete changer. I have no interest in episodes, sorry, sandbox all the way, games like that can live forever, but only with development team that knows what to do, otherwise they'll end up like a Titanic. That's pretty much it, really. 3 years, not my first game that failed me, but at least it's still alive. 4 abandonware so far, and some more in X years development cycle. Quality > Quantity, the default map in the game, is also the best one, while others, are "meh" just as episodes, it would be so much better if that time was not wasted, but instead spent to work on Survival. Bye. Someone reply, so I can decide if I want to keep this dead man on my list, or be done with it, really. Waiting for an update, just to see it's some 1st Aprill joke, one of many.

What are you getting for free? Do you even realize how Early Access works? You buy a game cheaper, because not only it lacks in content, but also it may fail [couple of games I supported were abandoned, money lost], and as it develops, you obviously get updates, that you paid for, there's no "free content" here. Everything was paid for, you paid for it, by buying the game, or at least something that is supposed to be one in the future. The game might be out officially, but in reality, it's still early access, and I doubt that will ever change, seeing their priority are episodes.