Walkthrough The Long Dark: Episode 1. Don't go humbly

Chapter first

Day 1

You spawn next to tree debris and a crashed plane somewhere in northern Canada. The first thing you need to do is remove a piece of metal from your hand. Climb up to the cave, on the way you can grab pieces of cloth lying on the ground, sticks, inspect the first aid kit. Now we need to light the fire. You can do this from the quick action menu (by default, the SPACE key). You also need to bandage a bleeding wound using the same menu. After that, the Main Hero, in the future - GG, will lie down to rest.

Day 2

GG is dying of dehydration. Exit the cave, collect fuel for a fire. Along the way, inspect the containers near the wreckage of the aircraft. If you cut cardboard and break wooden boxes, there will be a small bonus under them. Once the fire is ready, melt the water. Be careful, just melted water is not suitable for drinking, it must be boiled. After drinking water, there will be a risk of infection. We choose an antiseptic found on the street and apply it to the wound. GG goes back to sleep.

Day 3

We are faced with the task of collecting as much firewood as would be enough to burn the fire all night. Let's go outside, shall we?We scatter firewood and sticks, break boxes, make a fire. Breaking the second box to the left of the cave, you can find four books. GG offers to warm up by the fire, so as not to freeze. During this time, you can melt and boil water, it will not be possible to make a fire at any time in the game, so it is better to make some reserve.

Day 4

We leave the cave, climb up the fallen tree. Take your time here, activating Astrid's suitcase, you will see a video from which you will learn how Mackenzie got into this situation. On the right lies the carcass of a deer, after skinning it, try to climb onto the ledge. GG will fall and sprain his ankle. Gather rose hips to brew a painkiller out of it. In the “Make” tab, rose hips must be prepared before brewing tea. Prepare meat for eating. Until the GG is completely satisfied, he will not lie down to rest.

Day 5

Climb up the tree again. Climb back to where you fell yesterday. Climb up until you see a crashed plane.

Chapter two. Astrid footprints

Once you get there, watch the cutscene. GG offers to follow the trail of Astrid. Examine the plane crash site, take everything you need and move further along the location. Finding ?First piece of Astrid's clothes, go straight to the second piece.

After passing the clearing of rabbits, go upstairs, at the deer carcasses, turn right and go to the cave. It is not very dark in it, search the corpse, move into the depths. Look around all the galleries, maybe you will find something useful. Go to the exit from the cave.

Immediately after the exit, you will see a wolf eating up the carcass of a dead deer. It can be bypassed without attracting attention. Crouch and move along the right side of it.

After entering the road, the save will take place. To the right is a dead end, move left to the bridge. CAREFULLY. The bridge is inhabited by a wolf. If he notices you, get in the nearest car and sleep for an hour. It is better not to enter the bridge itself, go around it along the road on the right. As soon as you go around the bridge, the save will pass. Turn right at the bridge and follow the road. After a while you will see the wolf killing the rabbit. It is better to sit down and go around them on the left along the lake. Get out onto the road and drive straight. You will see a trailer, inside of which there are many useful things, besides, you can relax here. After leaving it, turn left. Continuing straight ahead, you will run into an old church, which is also inhabited by several wolves.

Search it, prepare for the further journey. Before leaving the church, betterjust make a torch to scare away the wolves. After leaving, move towards the bridge. Move from car to car, scaring off the wolves along the way.

Immediately after crossing the bridge, you will find yourself in Milton - an abandoned city. GG notices smoke from the chimney of one house and offers to check. First, search the cars standing nearby and go to the bank opposite this house. In the bank branch you will find the key that unlocks the banker's house. After that, move to the house, from the chimney of which there was smoke. After entering, watch the cut-scene. Talk to the blind woman. She offers to chop wood in exchange for information. The ax can be taken in the barn, behind the house.

Chapter three. Gray Mother

From now on, searching or picking up items described in red font will be considered theft. By doing this, you will lose trust in this NPC. In order to complete the task, it is not necessary to go into the forest for firewood, but an ax will come in handy. Walk through the surrounding houses, find a lot of useful things inside. Cabinets, bedside tables, chairs - all of this can be broken and taken to the woodpile in front of the Gray Mother's house. When it is full, we go into the house and watch the cut-scene.

Now you need to find food, a total of 10,000 calories and put it in the refrigerator. If you followed my advice earlier, then almost withtake the right amount. You can go to a gas station, or you can kill a couple of wolves that live in the city. After completing the task, we communicate with the Mother and watch the cut-scene. She tells us some facts and says she is tired. We do our business, after a while we return to her for a dialogue.

This time you have to inspect the tunnel leading from Milton and tell the Gray Mother what happened there. We stock up on food, mend clothes and go. After leaving the house of the Gray Mother, turn left and move to the end of the road past the gas station. At the prison bus, search the case. We watch the cut-scene. Head back to the Old Mother's house, only this time there will be several wolves roaming the gas station and in the city. The decision is yours, either fight or run away. On the way back, try to pick up sticks and reishi mushrooms growing on tree stumps. They can be exchanged for trust points. We go into the house, watch the cut-scene. The Gray Mother is upset that the tunnel through the mountains has collapsed. She says to come later.

Upon returning, we look at the dialogue of our heroes. If you did everything correctly, you have already found the code from the bank vault. He lies in the house, the door of which can be opened with the key that we found in the bank as soon as we arrived in the city. The path leads to the farm, exit the Gray Mother's house, turn left and right at the crossroads. The farm will beend of the road. Be careful, the number of wolves on the street does not decrease every day. Use the tactics of moving from house to car, or from house to house. If necessary, rest in the shelter for one hour. Upon reaching the farm, in the hangar there will be a wolf over the corpse. After searching the body, we will find the key to the safe. The key to the farm itself is in the blue pickup truck on the dashboard. Entering the house, turn right into the room. There will be an urn above the fireplace to get the key to the cell - search it. In the same course we go to the bank, search the cell and find things stolen from the Gray Mother there. Not having time to cross the threshold of her house, we enjoy the next dialogue.

Apparently, the old woman masterfully breeds us. She asks the GG to return to the church, where it is full of wolves, and take the jewelry in the cemetery to some Lily. Well, there is nothing to do, we go towards the church. Enter the cemetery. You will see a cutscene of Mackenzie placing the decoration on Lily's grave. Return to the Gray Mother. From the threshold, she will tell you the story of her daughter Lily, who fell off the cliff, and will offer you to take her equipment to follow her path to the Relentless Mills.

Chapter Four

It's best to wait for good weather to set off. During this, you can stock up on provisions and repair clothes. If you're ready, get outat home and head towards the gas station. Before refueling, turn right and continue straight ahead to the mountain park. In the park, turn right to get to the "picnic area". Here we will need to use the climbing cable on the ledge.

Ledge for descent. "Picnic Place"

Having almost completed his descent, the GG will fall to the ground and receive one or more bruises. Keeping to the mountains on the left side, get to the next climbing cable hanging from the cliff. To climb up, you need to empty the backpack from the trash and get enough sleep. After you climb up, move to the left side to the broken tree, along which you can climb higher, to the other side, where you will see a waterfall.

Waterfall

Move towards him. Follow the path past two waterfalls to enter the cave. Walk along it, here you can relax and prepare for a further journey. After getting outside, watch the cut-scene, as the old bear tears the hunter apart. End of the first episode.