Relentless Night v4.10 now ported to work with 1.77 and above! Check for more frequent development updates at the Relentless Night discord group, or Patreon.



The download and installation instructions for latest version can now be found at Xpazeman's TLD Mod List.



Note: The mod scenario can be played in all sandbox difficulties and can be set up in its own sandbox page. The mod does not prevent playing survival mode or other vanilla modes. Relentless night saves are kept completely separate from other save data and cannot be played by regular sandbox mode and vice versa.



So what is the Relentless Night mod?

Relentless Night is a gameplay mod for The Long Dark that introduces a new sandbox scenario where the spin of the Earth is slowing down. Slowly but surely, days and nights are getting longer over time, leading to a world with continuously changing temperatures, weather patterns, wildlife populations, and more.

As the world slows, each longer-dark brings even colder temperatures to the Canadian North, huge temperature distributions in the atmosphere start to give way to stronger winds and blizzards, even adapted wildlife slowly start to disappear as they succumb to the worsening conditions of the cold nights.

The player, realizing what is happening, must take advantage of the longer days and the warmer temperatures to prepare for the next even longer and colder dark. All of this eventually leads to the final challenge where all your preparation will really determine how long you survive - The planet finally slows down enough to become tidally locked with the sun, with the survivor now left in the perpetual darkness of the new “dark side of Earth”, and its ever-worsening and frigid conditions.

Relentless Night will add a progress difficulty into survival mode that at first doesn't seem any different than regular sandbox mode, but the effects will slowly add up and bring about conditions that make gameplay harder. All this eventually leading to a world that's incredibly harsh and difficult to survive in, even for veterans and expert survivalists of the game.

COMPLETE MODIFICATIONS LIST (v4.0):