In fact, moving is mandatory as each region will be swamped by toxic fog once a player has been there for 30 real-time minutes, giving them five minutes to cross the threshold to safety. The Darkwalker won't, for instance, be deterred by walls, meaning it's safer to keep moving than it is to attempt to hide. The goal, then, is to try and stay alive for as long as possible (success is measured in real-world minutes), but some added wrinkles complicate matters still further. Expect some extra-spooky atmospherics as part of Escape the Darkwalker. This time, however, they'll be relentlessly pursued by an unstoppable, malevolent - and entirely invisible - entity, capable of killing them immediately if it manages to get too close. Those brave enough to embark on Hinterland's new Halloween adventure will once again find themselves scrambling to survive in an endless night. But while Four Days of Night was a relatively straightforward rejig of the game's existing survival systems, plunging the experience into perpetual darkness and adding a few spooky props, Escape the Darkwalker unleashes a bevvy of changes designed to shift the game into full-on horror territory.

This year, however, Hinterland is aiming to go from tense to terrifying as part of its new Escape the Darkwalker Halloween event.Įscape the Darkwalker is set to run from next Thursday, 29th October, to 12th November, and replaces the Four Days of Night Halloween event that has been an annual fixture for The Long Dark since its debut in 2016. Developer Hinterland's superb post-apocalyptic survival game The Long Dark - which sees players prowling its snowy wilderness with nothing but a stash of rapidly dwindling resources and invariably soggy underpants - is already a wonderfully tense experience.

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