Challenge

Challenges are special survival scenarios within The Long Dark's Survival Mode sandbox. In addition to the normal survival mechanics, Challenges contain narrative-based objectives, unique gameplay and enemies not normally found in normal survival mode, and in some cases, a time limited objective. Challenges can be found within the Survival main menu as their own separate game mode.

There are currently eight challenges in the The Long Dark. Completing a Challenge will unlock a Badge as proof of completion and allows the player to compare their completion time with other players. Completing all of them (excluding difficulty 6 challenges) yields the Challenge Mastery achievement.

	Challenge	Description	Difficulty
	Hopeless Rescue	Recover the Distress Pistol from the summit of Timberwolf Mountain. Fire it from the top of the Desolation Point Lighthouse.	4
	The Hunted, Part One	Avoid the Bear. Get to Trapper's Cabin in Mystery Lake.	5
	The Hunted, Part Two	Take the rifle and go face the Old Bear.	5
	The Hunted, Part Three	TBA	TBA
	Whiteout	The storm arrives in 30 days. Stockpile enough food, water, and supplies in the Coastal Highway Quonset Garage before it hits.	4
	Nomad	Survive for 3 days each in 15 specific locations across the game world.	3
	Archivist	During the aurora, collect Buffer Memories from across Great Bear Island at the locations listed in your journal.	3
	As the Dead Sleep	Visit all the grave sites marked on your map. There is no time limit. As your life ebbs, death is the only barrier.	6
	Escape the Darkwalker	Search for the Green Fires. Learn all you can about the Darkwalker. Knowledge will help you find a way to defeat the enemy.	6

The following 2 challenges were timed Events that are currently unavailable to be played within the game.

	Challenge	Description
	4 Days of Night Event	An endless night has arrived on Great Bear Island. Survive across 4 real world days as the island changes each day. Survive for 2 hours each day to accumulate progress.
	Winter's Embrace	Survive an ever increasingly cold world as you hunt for 2 brand new food items. Average world temperatures are -10° C indoors and outdoors.

History

• Hopeless Rescue and The Hunted, Part One were added in version 0.321
• Whiteout and Nomad were added in version 0.346
• The Hunted, Part Two was added in version 0.364
• Archivist was added in version 1.41
• As the Dead Sleep was added in version 1.64
• Escape the Darkwalker was added in version 1.86 as a Halloween event, then permanently added as a challenge in version 1.89

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