Hereโ€™s What You Missed This Week โ€“ June 1st Week Recap

Catch up on this weekโ€™s survival chaos: bears, zombies, Customloper runs, permadeath hubs, and one very questionable Interloper experience.


This Week in Review

Another week of survival, panic, and the occasional questionable decision. Hereโ€™s what went live across the blog:

๐Ÿป Monday: Bear Meets Panic Rifle

Sometimes you bring a rifle to a bear encounter. Sometimes the rifle just brings panic. This week kicked off with a new Survivor’s Shorts entry where I learned that even with a firearm, bears remain terrifying.

The One-Shot Wonder: Bear Meets Panic Rifle


๐ŸŒŠ Tuesday: Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival โ€“ Day One

The boat launched, the paranoia began. My permadeath Dredge run officially set sail with the start of Dark Waters. The ocean may look calm, but we both know it isnโ€™t.

Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival โ€“ Day 1


โ„๏ธ Wednesday: Customloper โ€“ Day One

The Customloper experiment is underway. A bit Interloper, a bit Voyageur, a lot of me desperately hoping I donโ€™t freeze to death before leaving Mountain Town. So far, soโ€ฆ technically alive.

Customloper Diaries Day 1: A Woollen Windy Welcome to Milton

Side note, The Cold Chronicles and Customloper Diaries will be alternating weeks for the foreseeable. Until one of them ends of course. So next week will be the next entry The Cold Chronicles


๐Ÿ—ก Thursday: Skyrim Survival โ€“ Sneak, Snipe, Repeat โ€“ Day Six

The Argonian saga continues. Day Six saw more stealth, more arrows, and the usual healthy amount of questionable life choices while wandering Skyrimโ€™s frozen wilderness.

Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Suvival Day Six


๐Ÿช“ Friday: Grounded Permadeath Hub Goes Live

The hub page for The Backyard Trials: Grounded Permadeath is officially up and running! Rules, info, and upcoming entries are all ready for you.
I also teased whatโ€™s coming next Friday: a special Day One Diary for Zombie Army Trilogyโ€”fittingly set for Friday the 13th.

The Backyard Trials: Grounded Permadeath

Zombie Army Trilogy โ€“ Day One Diary Coming This Friday the 13th


๐Ÿ’€ Saturday: The Desolation Point Debacle

Today’s Survivor’s Shorts took us into Desolation Point on Interloper. It didnโ€™t go well. (Shocking, I know.)

Survivorโ€™s Shorts: Interloper โ€” The Desolation Point Debacle


What’s Coming Next

The backlog grows stronger. Next week, expect more from Dark Waters, Customloper, Skyrim Survival, and our first look at Zombie Army Trilogy. More danger, more chaos, more very avoidable mistakes.

Weekly Recap: The Long Dark, Skyrim, No Manโ€™s Sky, Nice Day For Fishing & More โ€“ Survivor Incognito

A full roundup of everything thatโ€™s gone live on Survivor Incognito this week: new Survivorโ€™s Shorts, Survivorโ€™s Dread launch, The Survivorโ€™s Camp hub, new Day One Diaries for No Manโ€™s Sky and Nice Day For Fishing, Customloper, Skyrim, The Long Dark, and blog updates.

The Campfireโ€™s Been Busy โ€” Letโ€™s Catch Up

One of the busiest weeks yet! If you blinked, you probably missed something โ€” so hereโ€™s your full survival roundup:

๐Ÿ• The Survivorโ€™s Camp is Now Open

A brand new central hub page has launched:
The Survivorโ€™s Camp pulls together everything on the blog โ€” survival guides, series hubs, shorts, and playthroughs โ€” all in one place.

[Visit The Survivorโ€™s Camp]

๏”ช Survivorโ€™s Dread Has Officially Gone Live



The newest addition to the blog is here:
Survivorโ€™s Dread covers all things survival horror, kicking off with Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival. The first entry comes next week as the darkness descends.

[Visit Survivorโ€™s Dread]
[Visit Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival]

๐Ÿš€ Day One Diary โ€“ No Manโ€™s Sky

The multiverse opens up.
Our No Manโ€™s Sky Day One Diary has begun, charting survival, exploration, and (inevitably) questionable decisions across the stars.

[Visit Day One Diary โ€“ No Manโ€™s Sky]

๐ŸŽฃ Day One Diary โ€“ Nice Day For Fishing

Baelinโ€™s adventure has begun.
Fishing, questing, mugged sorcerers, and Dark Lords โ€” just your average day in Nice Day For Fishing.

[Visit Nice Day For Fishing โ€“ Day One Diary: Baelinโ€™s Adventure Begins]

โ„๏ธ Customloper โ€“ The Long Dark: Day One Diaries Continue

The Customloper run officially kicks off next week. But until then, here’s a Day One Diary entry to help you understand what to expect.
Interloper weather. Voyageur loot. Plenty of snow. Plenty of danger.

[Visit Customloper โ€“ The Long Dark: Day One Diary]

๐Ÿบ The Long Dark โ€“ Ongoing Survival

The main Long Dark survival continues as well, with more entries uploaded this week as the trek across Coastal Highway continues.

[Visit The Cold Chronicles: A Voyageurโ€™s Tale of The Long Dark]

๐Ÿ‰ Skyrim Survival Mode โ€“ The Pilgrimage Continues

My Argonian is still alive somehow.
High Hrothgar, frostbite, bandits, cultists, and chickens continue to make the journey through Skyrim Survival Mode both ridiculous and dangerous.

[Visit Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Survival]

๐ŸŽฅ Survivorโ€™s Shorts

New moments added to the ever-growing Survivorโ€™s Shorts collection โ€” highlighting some of the best (and worst) survival moments from across the blog.

[Visit Survivorโ€™s Shorts]

๐Ÿ›  Blog Updates โ€“ Pages Converted to Posts

Behind the scenes, several former pages have now been converted into regular blog posts. This should make navigation cleaner and help posts show up more naturally in blog feeds, archives, and categories.




Thatโ€™s everything from this week!
Stay warm. Stay fed. Donโ€™t poke the wildlife. (Or open any cursed chests.)



Next Tuesday… We Go Fishing (and Probably Regret It)

The first official Survivor’s Dread series begins next week on Survivor Incognito. Iโ€™m diving blind into Dredge, armed with nothing but poor judgment and permadeath rules.

What Is Survivor’s Dread?

A new weekly series where I explore different corners of survival gamesโ€”where horror, tension, and terrible decisions collide. Which was originally going to be called Friday Fright, but I preferred the sound of Survivorโ€™s Dread, and also means I can change the day it is released.

So What Game Are We Starting With?

Dredge.

A fishing game, allegedly.

It’s foggy. It’s weird. I’ve only played the demo. What could possibly go wrong?

The Twist: Permadeath

I’ve made a custom permadeath ruleset called Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival. If the boat dies, the run dies. I go into the fog, and I don’t go back.

When Does It Begin?

Next Tuesday at 1PM GMT, the nightmare begins with Day One of Dark Waters.

Where Can You Find It?

Here: Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival

Why Should You Read It?

  • Chaos is guaranteed.
  • Survival is unlikely.
  • You get to feel good about your own decisions

Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival begins Tuesday at 1PM GMT.

Iโ€™ll be heading into the fog with nothing but a fishing rod, a poorly thought-out permadeath rule set, and the vague hope that the sea wonโ€™t immediately chew me up and spit me out.

Want to play alongโ€”or just judge my decisions from a safe distance?
You can grab the full rule sheet here:

Bring a lantern. Don’t look down.

Why I’m Not Chasing Clicks (And What That Means for Survivor Incognito)

When I started this blog, I knew 2 things for sure:

  1. I love survival games.
  2. I didn’t want to turn them into something stressful โ€“ for me or for you.

So I made a choice early on: I wouldnโ€™t flood Survivor Incognito with SEO trickery, hyped-up headlines, or โ€œTop 10 Ways to Get Views Fast!โ€ guides. I wanted this to grow like a campfire โ€” one spark at a time. Slow, steady, and occasionally smothered by a blizzard.

The Stats So Far

May was my first full month live. I got:




Some days itโ€™s just one or two views. Others itโ€™s a little spike from Reddit, Facebook, or Pinterest. Itโ€™s not explosive โ€” but itโ€™s real. And itโ€™s mine.

  • 324 views.
  • 243 visitors.
  • And one mildly surprised blogger wondering who these brave souls are clicking through the fog.

Why I’m OK With Slow Growth

Because I’d rather build a small camp of readers who:

  • Actually enjoy what I like.
  • Like permadeath stories, region guides, or rabbit-stunning mishaps.
  • Stick around for the tone, not the traffic.

Clickbait can bring numbers, sure. But Iโ€™m not aiming for viral. Iโ€™m aiming for cozy. If a blog post of mine makes someone laugh, try something new in The Long Dark, or curse a moose in solidarity โ€” thatโ€™s enough.

What’s Ahead

The blog will keep growing โ€” one post, one map, one diary entry at a time. If you’re here reading this? Thank you. You’re part of what makes this space feel less like a webpage and more like a cabin with the fire lit.

Feel free to browse the hubs, subscribe for updates, or just keep coming back when the blizzards hit.

Stick Around?

I post new survival diaries, game guides, and mildly catastrophic moments every week. Head to the homepage to see whatโ€™s been happening, or subscribe if you want updates without the clickbait.

Friday Fright Is Coming โ€“ Somethingโ€™s Stirring Beneath the Waves

A new survival series is surfacing on Survivor Incognito this Friday. Itโ€™s cold. Itโ€™s wet. And it wants to be seen. Welcome to Friday Fright.




Youโ€™ve braved the cold.
Youโ€™ve dodged dinosaurs.
Youโ€™ve survived Skyrim without socks.

Now itโ€™s time to confront something olderโ€ฆ and deeper.

This Friday, Survivor Incognito plunges into the unknown with the launch of a new weekly series:
Friday Fright โ€“ where survival meets suspense, and things donโ€™t just go bump in the nightโ€”they slither, stalk, and stare back.




What to Expect:

New Friday posts exploring the eerie, the strange, and the just plain cursed corners of survival gaming.

Permadeath challenges with a twistโ€”when the danger isn’t just wolves or weather, but somethingโ€ฆ weirder.

Short stories from the edge of logic, sanity, and safe game design.


The first entry will be revealed this Friday at 5PM GMT.
Hold your breath. Not all horrors come from the land.

Day One Diary Customloper Drops โ€“ Tomorrow

The Day One Diary of Customloper is comingโ€”and no, I didnโ€™t freeze to death immediately.
Spawned in with Interloper-level weather and a backpack full of questionable decisions.
There were snacks. There were was lots of snow. There was looting in the dark like a confused burglar. Find out what happens tomorrow at 1pm GMT.

For information on what Customloper is, read here: The Long Dark Customloper Settings: Easier Interloper Survival Mode

Catch up with my other Day One Diaries here: Day One Diaries

The Doedicurus Incident: How I Lost a Fight I Didn’t Know I Was Starting

Day 1 of ARK: Scorched Earth. I spawned, made some pants, and was murdered by what I thought was a friendly armoured pet rock. A true story of betrayal, bad aim, and Doedicurus rage.

Welcome to the Desert. Here’s a Spear. Try Not To Die.

I woke up in the Scorched Earth desert with nothing but my fists and the overwhelming sense that everything around me wanted me dead.

Naturally, I punched a tree, made a pickaxe, and crafted myself a stunning outfit made entirely of itchy rags. Survival 101.

Thatโ€™s when I saw it: a Doedicurus.
Round, slow-moving, and with the kind of face that said, โ€œI mind my business.โ€ It was adorable. I felt safe.

This would be my desert buddy. My spiky little friend.
I had plans. Big plans. I was going to tame it. Name it. Maybe ride it into battle.

Then I Threw a Spear at It.

Nowโ€ฆ in my defense, I meant to throw the spear next to the Doedicurus.
You know, to test it. Impress it. Establish dominance. Whatever people do in survival games.

What I didnโ€™t mean to do was poke it directly in the face.

Cue a noise I didnโ€™t know Doedicuruses could make.
Cue it rolling toward me like an angry bowling ball with revenge issues.

The Fight That Wasn’t.

I panicked.
I had one more spear. I missed.
I pulled out my fists. They wereโ€ฆ less effective.

The Doedicurus did not miss. It swung its tail like it was trying to launch me into the next biome.
It succeeded.

Respawn, Reflect, Regret.

As I stared at the โ€œYou Diedโ€ screen, one thought ran through my head:
What the hell just happened?

I came here to survive.
I left wearing nothing but shame and a crushed dream of dinosaur friendship.


Final Thoughts

Let it be known: Doedicuruses are not your friends.
They are boulders with feelings. And those feelings are rage.

Next time, Iโ€™m taming a Jerboa. At least they donโ€™t roll over you for sport.

Got a favourite chaotic moment?

Let me know in the comments or tag me on socialโ€”I’m always looking for new disasters to celebrate.
And if you enjoy these shorts, consider sharing the page with a fellow survivor.
Because nothing says โ€œfriendshipโ€ like a moose silently judging you from behind a tree.

If you enjoyed that one, please check out my other stories here: Survivorโ€™s Shorts

Also, please check out the full tale of my first day in ARK: Scorched Earth here: Day 1 Diary โ€“ ARK: Scorched Earth: Heat, Hubris & A Doedicurus

Hereโ€™s Whatโ€™s Coming This Week โ€“ From Dodos to Doedicurus and Deep Space

This week at Survivor Incognito: dino disasters, cosmic chaos, a return to Customloper, and two new Survivorโ€™s Shorts. Here’s the full lineup of whatโ€™s dropping and when.

Monday โ€“ A Double Hit to Start the Week

Day One Diary: No Manโ€™s Sky
Cold planet, no scanner, and a plant that bit me. Welcome to Zuwan 58/E6.

Survivorโ€™s Short: The Doedicurus Incident
One spear. One armadillo. Zero survivors. The best (worst?) five seconds of ARK youโ€™ll ever read.

Wednesday โ€“ Into the Cold

Day One Diary: The Long Dark โ€“ Customloper
Coastal Highway just got colder. My custom difficulty is set to โ€œhelp is a mythโ€ โ€” and this diary is where it begins. This is a taster of what is to come next week

Thursday โ€“ Skyrim Survives Another Day

Skyrim Survival โ€“ Day Five
My Argonianโ€™s back, colder than ever, and probably regretting their life choices again. Expect sneaking, sniping, and the occasional panic shout.

Friday โ€“ Frostbite & Fur

The Long Dark โ€“ New Entry in A Voyageurโ€™s Tale
The Cold Chronicles continue with more frostbite, slightly less dignity, and whateverโ€™s left in my food stash.

Survivorโ€™s Short: The Moose Encounter
He saw me. I saw him. Only one of us had antlers โ€” and it wasnโ€™t me.

Plus: This Site Just Got A Bit Update

All entries for The Long Dark, Skyrim, and Day One Diaries have been turned into full posts (not pages!) so theyโ€™re easier to find, share, and follow.

Thanks for Reading โ€“ And Surviving

Bookmark the blog, subscribe if you havenโ€™t, and remember: in survival gaming, itโ€™s not about thriving โ€” itโ€™s about laughing while everything falls apart.

Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Survival Day Four

Missed Day 3 โ€“ Read it here

Started the day the way all great stealth archers doโ€”by pretending to care about politics. Found the Redguard woman in Whiterun that the Alikโ€™r mercs were sniffing around for. She gave me the classic โ€œtheyโ€™re lying, Iโ€™m innocentโ€ speech. Naturally, I decided to investigate further, because Iโ€™m not just a deadly ghost in the shadowsโ€”Iโ€™m also weirdly nosy.

So I paid a visit to the dungeon. Not because I enjoy the ambiance (mossy rocks, chain rattles, general despair), but because thatโ€™s where the Alikโ€™r prisoner was holed up. On my way through the cells, I stumbled across a conveniently placed letter that kicked off While the Catโ€™s Awayโ€”because apparently jail is where people keep their treasure maps now. This new breadcrumb trail pointed me to Rorikstead, so thatโ€™s now on the ever-growing โ€œplaces Iโ€™ll forget to visitโ€ list.

I bribed a guard to release the Alikโ€™r guy. Ten gold down, but the man refused to leave. Said he liked it there. Who likes jail? I left him to enjoy the damp stone aesthetic and moved on.

Decided to get serious about transport and talked to the guy at the stables. Instead of a horse, I got a map to horse locations. Look, I may specialize in ranged combat from the shadows, but even I think this quest design is a bit rich. I considered stealing a horse parked outsideโ€”because whatโ€™s stealth archery without a bit of stealth theft?โ€”but resisted. Barely.

Set off for Ivarstead, because apparently walking from town to town is now my main questline. Took a scenic route through White River Watch, because I saw bandits and my inner archer whispered, โ€œfree loot.โ€ Cleared the place, looted some arrows, andโ€”big momentโ€”found a replacement torch. Goodbye darkness; hello slightly less darkness.

Further down the road, a local asked for help clearing out some spooky ancestral crypt. I said yes, mostly because ghosts are easier to shoot than bandits. Lydia followed me in. She didnโ€™t follow me out. Somewhere in the middle of a draugr-infested hallway, she stopped tanking and started dying. I mourned just long enough to loot her stuff and whisper, โ€œyou took too many aggro points.โ€ I may join the Companions soon, if only to get a fresh meat shield with less emotional baggage.

Finished the tomb, claimed some loot, and resumed the long haul to Ivarstead. Got lost twice. Almost turned back three times. It wasnโ€™t clear if I was heading east, west, or straight into existential crisis. Eventually, the town showed up and I dragged myself into the nearest inn.

Dropped into a bed with no torch dropped this time. Progress.

RIP Lydia. You were loud, clunky, and bad at staying behind me. But you absorbed a lot of arrows meant for me, so thanks for that.

Read the full journey here: Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Survival

Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Survival Day Three

Missed Day Two. Find it here: Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Survival โ€“ Day Two

Day 3 started with an ambush. A random High Elf jumped me on the road for reasons unknownโ€”maybe they didnโ€™t like my face, or maybe Argonians owe them money. Either way, I fought back with confusion and mild panic, which worked surprisingly well.

I eventually made it to Honningbrew Meadery, still torchless, and only then realized I must have accidentally sold mine to the Riverwood trader. A true survivalist moment.

Whiterun itself was a whirlwind of activity. I did a lot of trading and cooking (still no torch, sadly) and picked up a handful of miscellaneous quests just by talking to everyone who would listen. After reporting the dragon attack to the Jarl, he asked me to speak to his court wizard, Farengar, about retrieving an item from Bleak Falls Barrow. Luckily, I had already picked it up after dealing with the draugr overlord the day before.

When I returned the item, another dragon sighting interrupted the conversationโ€”because of course it did. The Jarl asked me to help defend the watchtower. On the way, I stopped at a farm and took as many cabbages as I could carry. Nutrition first, dragon-slaying second.

The dragon fight was… spirited. I may have only shot one or two arrows during the entire battle (accuracy still pending investigation), but I stood my ground and somehow survived. When the dragon fell, I absorbed its soul and unlocked the first word of Unrelenting Force. The Greybeards, apparently impressed by my sheer proximity to heroism, summoned me with a thunderous shout across the land.

After the chaos at the watchtower, I returned to Whiterun as a newly minted dragonslayerโ€”well, sort of. I may have only fired one or two arrows during the entire battle (accuracy debatable), but I was present, which apparently is enough to get called Dragonborn these days. I’ll take it.

Back in the city, the moment I stepped through the gates, I ran into two Redguards asking if Iโ€™d seen a mysterious woman. Naturally, I nodded vaguely and moved onโ€”Iโ€™d just absorbed a dragon soul, after all. Priorities.

Then it was back up to Dragonsreach, where I was rewarded by the Jarl for my โ€œbraveryโ€ with the title of Thane and a housecarl named Lydia. Iโ€™d barely gotten the words โ€œUnrelenting Forceโ€ out of my mouth before I was already poking around the keep, looting any gold, potions, and cheese wheels that werenโ€™t nailed down. Letโ€™s just say I was making the most of my new noble status.

Exhausted, mildly traumatized, and still without a torch, I wrapped up Day 3 by heading to the local inn for some much-needed restโ€”and to contemplate how one becomes the hero of Skyrim while barely lifting a finger in combat.

Read the full jouney here: Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Survival

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