Your Cozy Corner of Chaos in The Survival Genre
What positive emotion do you feel most often?
Amusement. Usually at my own terrible survival decisions. If I can laugh after freezing to death in The Long Dark or being headbutted by a doedicurus in ARK, then I’m probably doing alright.
Because if I can’t laugh at freezing, starving, or being eaten by wolves, what’s the point?
(Plenty more questionable decisions and laughs at Survivor Incognito.)
How do you plan your goals?
I treat goals like I treat survival game objectives: make a list, ignore it, then improvise wildly while avoiding disaster. Sometimes I even complete the original goal — usually by accident.
(Plenty more accidental victories at Survivor Incognito.)
Create an emergency preparedness plan.
Step 1: Gather essentials — food, water, first-aid kit, and a fully charged Nintendo Switch.
Step 2: Identify safe zones (bonus if they have Wi-Fi).
Step 3: Keep a backup power bank, because no disaster is worse than a dead console mid-survival run.
Step 4: Practice evacuation routes — both in real life and in-game, because you never know when the blizzard (or the cougar) will hit.
(For more survival plans — most of which involve questionable decisions — Survivor Incognito is fully prepared.)
What is a word you feel that too many people use?
“Immersive.” It’s become the seasoning everyone sprinkles on a game review, even if the most “immersive” part is falling through a glitchy map. In my world, true immersion is shivering on the couch while playing The Long Dark on Voyageur.
(Plenty more “immersive” disasters await at Survivor Incognito.)
What brings you peace?
A quiet moment in a survival game — when the blizzard stops, the wolves wander off, and all you can hear is the crackle of the campfire. It’s the calm between the chaos, and it lasts just long enough for me to forget I still need to find food, water, and a way not to freeze to death.
(For more fleeting moments of in-game peace — and a lot more chaos — Survivor Incognito has you covered.)
What profession do you admire most and why?
Search and rescue teams. They put themselves in danger to pull total strangers (and occasionally very confused dogs) out of trouble. In survival games, I’m usually the one who needs rescuing, so I have huge respect for anyone who can do it for real — without pausing to check their inventory.
(Until the rescue chopper arrives, you’ll find me surviving virtually at Survivor Incognito.)
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
A survival supply shop for gamers — stocked with snacks, spare Joy-Cons, portable chargers, and just enough actual survival gear to make you think you’d be fine in the wild. Because let’s be honest, the real danger is running out of battery before the wolves arrive. (Speaking of survival, I’ve got plenty of stories at Survivor Incognito if you ever need inspiration.)
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
A charged Nintendo Switch, because survival is a lot easier when you can pass the time between disasters. Bonus points if it’s loaded with enough survival games to make you feel prepared for absolutely nothing in real life.
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
If my blog could change anything in the world, it would be to make survival games feel less like grim endurance tests and more like a shared adventure. I want people to see that you can still have fun, learn new strategies, and tell ridiculous stories even when the in-game wolves are chewing on your leg. If one person feels more confident to try a survival game—or finds themselves laughing at a blizzard-induced disaster instead of rage-quitting—then I’ve done my job.
Setting the official rules for all future playthroughs on Survivor Incognito—permadeath is here, and chaos just got consequences.
Starting today, all future playthroughs on this blog—The Long Dark, Skyrim: Survival Mode, and anything else I drag my tired, freezing self into—will follow official permadeath rules.
That means:
If I die, that run is over.
No reloads. No saves. No mercy.
I start fresh from Day 1, with a new character or region.
My original Day 1 diary for The Long Dark was from my first experience with the game—long before these rules existed. So yes, I fell through the ice and died like a confused deer. That was real. That was me. That was chaos, pre-regulations.
From here on out:
I’ll clearly label each run.
I’ll document every in-game day, death or glory.
And I’ll stick to the rules. Even if a moose doesn’t.
Full breakdown of the rules are now live and can be found here [The Rules of Survival (According to Me)]
Let’s see how long I last.
Survivor Incognito 