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The Long Dark

The Long Dark is a first-person survival video game developed and published by Hinterland Studio. The player assumes the role of a plane crash survivor who must survive the frigid Canadian wilderness after a global disaster disables all electronics. Welcome to our community!

121k subscribers711 posts / mo in Sep 2026421 authors / mosince 2013

r/thelongdark has 121k members (+15% over the last 12 months). It gets about 711 posts a month from 421 people. Top topics: Interloper Survival, Timberwolf Mountain Adventures and Wolves and Survival.

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Size and growth

How r/thelongdark has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+15%in 12 months · +2.4% in 3 months · +0.7% in 1 month
Oct 2026121k
Growing121k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−11%vs Sep 2025 · −32% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026711
QuieterPeaked at 3.6k in Dec 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/thelongdark

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Interloper Survival3.1%
  2. Timberwolf Mountain Adventures2.3%
  3. Wolves and Survival2.1%
  4. Wintermute Survival1.9%
  5. The Long Dark Survival1.4%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Hinterland
  2. Steamcommunity
  3. Zendesk
  4. Tenor
  5. Bluesky

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Everything else about r/thelongdark

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research