We have set the table for Episode Five, and now we turn our attention to bringing it to a close. We give you the fourth episode of our survival odyssey, and we come one step closer to the final part of our story. Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum, so maybe you will feel some of those influences as you go through and experience Blackrock for yourselves. The experience of making it, and of playing it, will always be coloured by this time. The parallels between our isolation and fears of the outside world and Mackenzie’s experience in the episode were not lost on us.įor us, Episode Four will always be the pandemic episode. And all the while, we pushed forward to tell the story of Mackenzie and Astrid, the quiet apocalypse, the wintery wilderness of Great Bear, and the mysterious aurora in the sky, all to the best of our ability.
Ah, Corrie, he said, this is indeed a dark night for our country. Within our small team, we’ve experienced the highs of births and new life, and the deep lows of losing people we love. At length he let out a long sigh, then rose from the chair he'd been sitting in and. All the while, the team has banded together to support each other during the ups and downs. Hinterland Studio shared the following about developing Fury, Then Silence for The Long Dark:ĭeveloping the majority of this episode during a global pandemic has been a challenging experience to say the least. The new story “follows crashed bush pilot Mackenzie on his continued search for his companion Astrid in the snowy apocalypse.” He’s now found himself captured by a gang attempting a prison break. Switch players should be able to access it after installing a version 1 patch.
Following two years of development, Hinterland Studio issued an Episode 4 free story update for its exploration-survival experience The Long Dark titled “Fury, Then Silence”.