THE FUSE

We first learned that the frosty survival game The Long Dark was getting a sequel during 2024’s Game Awards. Called Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2, the follow-up to 2017’s excellent first-person game about surviving in the Canadian wilderness was said to be coming to early access in 2026. That’s no longer the case, with developer Hinterland’s founder Raphael van Lierop now saying it won’t be out in any form this year, and as a consequence 10 full-time developers and four contractors from the studio are being let go.