{"id":579200,"date":"2026-03-16T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-long-dark-is-getting-its-first-paid-dlc-later-this-year-in-the-form-of-a-season-pass"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:59:03","slug":"the-long-dark-is-getting-its-first-paid-dlc-later-this-year-in-the-form-of-a-season-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-long-dark-is-getting-its-first-paid-dlc-later-this-year-in-the-form-of-a-season-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Dark is getting its first paid DLC later this year in the form of a &#8220;season pass&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/the-long-dark-is-getting-its-first-paid-dlc-later-this-year-in-the-form-of-a-season-pass.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Hinterland has announced it will release a paid season pass of sorts for <strong>The Long Dark<\/strong> later this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/305620\/view\/3173358927545370887\">a rather lengthy developer diary<\/a> posted to the game&#8217;s Steam page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelongdark.com\/promoted\/dev-diary-april-2022\/\">and the official website<\/a>, studio founder Raphael van Lierop &#8211; who also announced he was stepping down as project lead to work on new things &#8211; the team has &#8220;decoupled&#8221; Story Mode and Survival Mode making it easier to produce content for one without impacting the other.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the interrelationship between mechanics and content between the two meant some updates the team would have liked to make in one area couldn&rsquo;t be accomplished because of how they might impact the other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-long-dark-is-getting-its-first-paid-dlc-later-this-year-in-the-form-of-a-season-pass\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-long-dark-is-getting-its-first-paid-dlc-later-this-year-in-the-form-of-a-season-pass\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinterland has announced it will release a paid season pass of sorts for The Long Dark later this year. 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