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BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2
An upcoming survival sandbox where friends share skills and shelter through a frozen city and its surrounding wilderness.
Online co-op.
- Online
Store pages
Playing together
- Online co-opYesPlayer count not confirmed
- Local co-opNot confirmed
- Not confirmedFriends on different platforms, such as PC and PlayStation, can play together.
- Not confirmedA friend can join or leave while you are already playing, without starting over.
- Not confirmedFriends play free with a Friend's Pass or similar.
- Steam DeckNot testedValve has not rated it yet
About the game
BLACKFROST is an upcoming survival game set around the northern city of Harmont after the aurora disables modern technology. You face winter weather, wildlife and radioactive frost from a reactor. The announced design adds psychological needs alongside physical survival. You shape a survivor through traits and skills, then manage fears and look for small comforts as conditions worsen.
The planned online co-op mode lets survivors combine their skills and efforts, with solo play also supported. Finding shelter and choosing how to survive are shared concerns. The focus is a lasting survival sandbox rather than a story campaign for a fixed pair. Early Access is planned for 2027, and the player limit has not been confirmed.
How it feels
Kind of game
One lasting world your group settles. You gather, build and push into dangerous places together.
- At its heart
- Now and then
- Calm and coziness
- Story
- Building and creating
- Sessions
- Ongoing world
- About
- Wilderness survival
Rated on our own feel scale. 2 sources back these ratings.
Screenshots
From the Steam store page. Open one to see it full size.
If you liked BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2
You will probably enjoy these too. Each one says why.
Green Hell
Why it scores 82%
What they share
- Kind of game
- Shared survival world
- About
- Wilderness survival
- Core to both
- Exploring
- Sessions
- Ongoing world
- Notable in both
- Tension and danger, Planning ahead, Getting better, Unlocks and progress
- Co-op
- Online co-op
How Green Hell differs
- More building than BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2
- 4 online
Both give your group a hard world to survive in together. Both are about surviving in the wild. Both are about exploring places you have not seen.
But more building than BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2.
ATMOSFAR
Why it scores 81%
What they share
- Kind of game
- Shared survival world
- Core to both
- Exploring
- Sessions
- Ongoing world
- Notable in both
- Working in sync, Tension and danger, Planning ahead, Unlocks and progress
- Co-op
- Online co-op
How ATMOSFAR differs
- More building than BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2
- Coming 29 October 2026
- 4 online
Both give your group a hard world to survive in together. Both give you one lasting world to come back to. Both are about exploring places you have not seen.
But more building than BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2.
Outward 2
Why it scores 81%
What they share
- Kind of game
- Shared survival world
- About
- Wilderness survival
- Core to both
- Exploring
- Sessions
- Ongoing world
- Notable in both
- Working in sync, Tension and danger, Planning ahead, Getting better, Unlocks and progress
- Co-op
- Online co-op
How Outward 2 differs
- More fighting than BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2
- Coming 8 February 2027
- 2 online
- 2 split-screen
Both give your group a hard world to survive in together. Both are about surviving in the wild. Both are about exploring places you have not seen.
But more fighting than BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2.
All co-op facts
Last checked 24 October 2026. The small numbers link to the page that states each fact.
Co-op
- Most players online
- Not confirmed
- Fewest players online
- Not confirmed
- Local co-op
- Not confirmed
- Most players on one screen
- Not confirmed
- Split or shared screen
- Not confirmed
- Separate-device co-op
- Not confirmed
- Most players on separate devices
- Not confirmed
- Free base co-op
- Not confirmed
- Confirmed free setups
- Not confirmed
- Crossplay
- Not confirmed
- Crossplay between
- Not confirmed
- Friends can join mid-game
- Not confirmed
- Only one of you needs to buy it
- Not confirmed
- Voice chat by distance
- Not confirmed
Sources
5 pages
hinterland.comOfficial site, read 24 October 2026
Backs Online co-op, Release status, Genres, About.
- Online co-op: The maker lists co-op and describes surviving with others. Steam specifically confirms online co-op.
- Release status: The maker says Coming Soon to Early Access.
- Genres: The maker lists Survival, Simulation and Sandbox.
- About: The announced setting is Harmont and its wilderness after a collapse, with survival as the main activity.
hinterland.comOfficial news, read 24 October 2026
Backs Release date, Release status.
- Release date: The 2026-08-28 diary confirms that Early Access moved to 2027. This supersedes the 2024 announcement.
- Release status: The diary describes development toward an Early Access launch and a forthcoming gameplay reveal.
store.steampowered.comStore page, read 24 October 2026
Backs Online co-op, Genres, Kind of game, Sessions, Tension and danger, Calm and coziness, Story, Working in sync, Exploring, Building and creating, Getting better, Unlocks and progress, Planning ahead.
- Online co-op: The publisher lists Online Co-op and describes survivors combining skills and effort.
- Genres: The publisher describes a survival role-playing game.
- Kind of game: Provisional. Players share shelter and survival work in an open world.
- Sessions: Provisional. The announced survival sandbox supports continuing a survivor’s life rather than finishing set levels.
- Tension and danger: Provisional. Winter weather, radiation, wildlife and physical and psychological needs create repeated survival pressure.
- Calm and coziness: Provisional. The psychological system explicitly includes finding small comforts among the hazards.
- Story: Provisional. Harmont and NPC communities supply context, while players accumulate their own survivor stories.
- Working in sync: Provisional. The co-op design explicitly combines players’ skills and efforts.
- Exploring: Provisional. A broad city and wilderness map provides towns, forests and farms to travel through.
- Building and creating: Provisional. Groups make shelter and the publisher tags include Crafting. Large-scale construction is not established.
- Getting better: Provisional. Survival requires learning layered physical and psychological systems.
- Unlocks and progress: Provisional. Traits, skills and the announced Permalife system develop a survivor across setbacks.
- Planning ahead: Provisional. Choosing traits and managing scarce survival resources and resilience require preparation.
store.steampowered.comStore data, read 24 October 2026
Backs Steam app ID.
- Steam app ID: The public app details response identifies app 1586260 as BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2.
store.steampowered.comStore data, read 24 October 2026
Backs Steam Deck.
- Steam Deck: Valve has not rated the game for Steam Deck.