Right now, I’m low-key obsessed with a game called The Long Dark.

It’s a survival simulator, basically, where you play as a person (male or female, your choice) trapped in the Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic storm has wiped out all technology. The great thing about the game is that it is “the poetry of survival.” There are no other characters. No missions. No enemies to fight (other than some wildlife that, if you’re smart, you can avoid.) It’s all about scavenging for scraps and just trying to survive.

My record so far is 23 days.

It’s weirdly soothing, and there’s a real spike of adrenaline when you find a hidden cache of food or stumble across a cabin in the middle of the woods!

(And since it’s me, occasionally you stumble across a dead body…)