Story mode adds a new way to play For those who desire a story to go with their survival gaming, The Long Dark offers a fully voiced-acted, five chapter story mode called 'Wintermute' complete with cutscenes. Or you may decide to check each inmate individually to see who's tired from staying up late to dig while everyone else has been sleeping though that approach may not scale.
You can decide to instead use tunnel-sniffing dogs set to patrol around the perimeter, but that will cost more money and if the inmates pick up on the patrolling patterns they will tunnel around them. For example, instituting regular shakedowns will help prevent prisoners from carrying banned items like forks taken from cafeterias that can be used to dig tunnels, but will also make the inmates more angry and thus more likely to riot. Every decision you make will impact all other elements of the game. You have to figure out the layout of your prison, how to manage the needs of your inmates, how to earn enough money to expand and hire new staff, what to do in the case of a natural disaster, a riot or attempted escape and so on.
Amazing depth The game consists of a wide variety of overlapping systems that work together to create excellent depth.
