๐ŸŽ‰ 500 Views of Portable Chaos โ€“ Thank You for Stopping By!

Survivor Incognito has crossed 500 views! A huge thank you to everyone whoโ€™s joined the portable survival chaos. Hereโ€™s to more maps, more diaries, and probably more regrettable decisions.


57 Days. 500 Views. And At Least That Many Bad Spear Throws.

Somehow, this little survival corner of the internet has crossed 500 viewsโ€”and I want to say a huge thank you to everyone whoโ€™s visited, clicked, or accidentally found the blog while looking for something else entirely. (Hey, Iโ€™ll take it.)

When I started Survivor Incognito 57 days ago, it was just a space to share:

Survival game stories (usually featuring questionable decisions)

Maps and guides (so you donโ€™t get lost like I do)

And a lot of Switch-based chaos


Fast forward to today, and Iโ€™m genuinely thrilled that over 500 viewsโ€™ worth of folks have joined in. Whether you came for ARK maps, The Long Dark Customloper settings, Skyrim survival mishaps, or just to watch the chaos unfoldโ€”thank you.


๐Ÿš€ Whatโ€™s Next?

The chaos continues:

The Day One Diaries: ARK Edition is launching soon, filling the weekend gaps with fresh prehistoric panic.

The map pages and hubs will keep growing as I explore (and inevitably die in) new places.

More survival stories, more bad ideas, and probably more pinecone tea. Expect more information soon.


๐Ÿงญ Thanks for Joining the Journey

Iโ€™m just getting started. If youโ€™ve enjoyed the blog so far: โžก Bookmark the site
โžก Share it with fellow Switch survival fans
โžก Or just stick around for the next 500 views of portable disaster.

Hereโ€™s to the next milestoneโ€”and to thriving, not just surviving.

๐Ÿš› Introducing: SnowRunner Survival โ€“ The Permagear Diaries

Where the roads are bad, the trucks are heavier than your hopes, and every mistake could be your last.

Welcome to SnowRunner Survival: The Permagear Diaries, the newest addition to the Survivor Incognito blog. If youโ€™ve ever thought to yourself, โ€œYou know what my survival games are missing? Eight wheels, four tons of steel, and zero margin for errorโ€โ€”then youโ€™re in the right place.

๐Ÿ›  What is Permagear?

Permagear is SnowRunnerโ€ฆ but with consequences.

  • Normal Mode difficulty
  • No recovering trucks to the garage
  • No teleporting to safety
  • And if all my trucks are stuck, flipped, fuel-starved, or unrecoverableโ€ฆ the run ends.

Thatโ€™s it. No resets. No second chances. Just mud, cargo, and an ever-shrinking fleet of regret.

Itโ€™s trucking logistics turned into a survival game.
Itโ€™s permadeathโ€ฆ with bad suspension.

๐Ÿ“– What to Expect

Each entry in The Permagear Diaries will follow my journey across the frozen, flooded, and just-plain-unforgiving maps of SnowRunner.

Expect:

  • Terrible decisions dressed up as tactical ones
  • Trailers that tip five feet from the drop zone
  • Scout vehicles doing things they were never meant to do
  • And missions that somehow take three trucks and an apology

Ohโ€”and Iโ€™m playing on the Nintendo Switch, so itโ€™s not just the terrain thatโ€™s unstable.

๐Ÿ“… Coming Soonโ€ฆ

The first entry in the series is on the way and will cover:

  • Bridge repair
  • Raised suspension upgrades
  • An early contract delivery
  • And dragging a broken truck with a slightly less broken truck

You know. Classic start-of-shift stuff.

๐Ÿ”ฅ In Other Newsโ€ฆ

The Donโ€™t Starve Day One Diary has hit a small snag (not a spider one, thankfully), but itโ€™ll be live ASAP.
Turns out surviving the dark is easyโ€”scheduling around it, less so.

Whether you’re a fellow hauler, a survival game masochist, or just here to watch the wheels fall offโ€”welcome to Permagear.
Itโ€™s going to be slow. Itโ€™s going to be muddy. And itโ€™s going to end gloriously badly.

๐Ÿ‘‰ The Backyard Trials Has Officially Begun: Grounded Permadeath Arrives!

The backyard is officially open for business โ€” and survival!

Iโ€™m excited to announce that both The Backyard Trials hub page and the full Grounded Rules of Survival are now live on Survivor Incognito.

In this permadeath run through Grounded, Iโ€™ll be taking on the full backyard, one day at a time, where every ant, spider, and angry bug can bring the entire run crashing down. One life. No second chances.

โœ… You can now check out:

The Backyard Trials Hub: [The Backyard Trails]

Grounded Rules of Survival: [Grounded Rules of Survival]


The first day of the run will be launching soon โ€” and from there, we’ll see just how far I can make it before something inevitably goes horribly wrong.

As always: survival is optional. Panic is guaranteed.


Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival โ€” Launches Tomorrow

Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival begins tomorrow on Survivor Incognito. A new permadeath series exploring the dangerous waters of Dredge on Nintendo Switch.

The next permadeath adventure begins tomorrow!
In Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival, we dive headfirst into the strange world of Dredge. Expect dangerous fishing trips, hallucinations, strange encounters, and plenty of questionable choices as we attempt to survive one day at a time.

Day One drops tomorrow โ€” stay tuned right here on Survivor Incognito as the madness begins.

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.

Hereโ€™s Whatโ€™s Coming Next Week on Survivor Incognito

Another week, another round of questionable life choices in wildly inhospitable environments. Hereโ€™s whatโ€™s landing on the blog over the next few days:

Monday โ€“ Day One Diary: No Manโ€™s Sky
Stranded on a frozen planet with nothing but a busted scanner and a dream. Thermal protection is falling faster than my confidence, and there are plants that bite back. Perfect start, really.

Wednesday โ€“ Day One Diary: Customloper โ€“ The Long Dark
My gentler Interloper settings meet the frozen coast of the Coastal Highway. Looting begins, weather disagrees, and the chaos is only just getting started. First steps on a new permadeath run which will be starting June 8th.

Thursday โ€“ Skyrim Survival Day 5
My Argonian stealth archer continues his journey across the frosty northโ€”this time, with fewer torches, more panic, and an increasing failing at slealth. Good times.

Friday โ€“ The Long Dark โ€“ Day 5 (Voyageur Run)
Blizzards, bears, and birch bark. What could go wrong? Find out as the saga of survival (and accidental near-death experiences) rolls on.




As always, all runs are permadeath, all chaos is real, and all posts go live at 1PM GMT.

Got a favourite so far? Curious about whatโ€™s next? Feel free to leave a commentโ€”or just quietly judge my survival decisions from afar.


Here’s What You Missed This Week โ€“ Permadeath and Prybars

Survival, strategy, and a fair bit of falling into things.

Itโ€™s been another chaotic but oddly satisfying week at Survivor Incognito, where the snow is endless, the bandits are clingy, and my survival strategy often involves โ€œrun first, question everything later.โ€ Here’s what dropped this week:

Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Day 3

A High Elf ambush kicked off the day, because Skyrim doesnโ€™t believe in subtlety. Our Dragonborn-in-training wandered into Whiterun with no torch, accidentally handed in a quest theyโ€™d already completed, became Thane, fought a dragon, and looted half the cityโ€™s cheese stockpileโ€”all without a working flashlight.
Read the chaos here:
Day 3 โ€“ Whiterun Welcomes Me

The Cold Chronicles – Day 4

Our Voyageur finally escaped Crumbling Highway, stepping into Coastal Highway only to meet gale-force winds, a casual bear, and wolves with a personal vendetta. Despite blizzards and a questionable cliff descent, they found shelter, loot, and just so many prybars.
Read it here:
Day 4 โ€“ A Voyageurโ€™s Tale of The Long Dark

New Pages Launched

The Graveyard

Where runs go when theyโ€™ve goneโ€ฆ poorly. From unexpected wolf attacks to permadeath pratfalls, this page memorializes your greatest โ€œoops.โ€
Visit The Graveyard

Rules of Survival

A breakdown of how I play survival games on the blog: permadeath is non-negotiable, no cheats, no take-backs, no mercy. Also includes series-specific rules for The Long Dark, Skyrim, and No Manโ€™s Sky.
Read the Rules

Customloper Settings

Tired of Interloper crushing your soul but still want a challenge? Enter: Customloperโ€”Interloper weather with settings that donโ€™t make you cry into your bedroll. Full settings list, and a FAQ included.
See the Settings

Customloper: The Long Dark Challenge That Outlasted the Challenge

For the past 6โ€“7 months, Iโ€™ve been running a custom difficulty mode in The Long Dark. The goal was simple: I wanted to keep the spirit of Voyageurโ€”but with a dose of Stalker and a blast of Interloper.. After testing and tweaking, hereโ€™s where I landed:

  • Voyageur-level of loot – because scrounging should feel rewarding
  • Wildlife set between Voyageur and Stalker – you’re not safe, but you’re not helpless
  • Interloper weather – cold enough to regret every decision

It wasn’t meant to be a thing, but after two runs, it kind of is:

  • My first run ended in Forlorn Muskeg, trying to reach Mountain Town after coming back from the Airfield. Spoiler alert: The ice got me again. I think I lasted maybe a week in-game
  • The other? I’m sitting at around 60 days, and still alive in Mystery Lake… but after dropping four bears, I realised I might have broken the game’s spirit before it broke mine.

So now I’m bringing my Customloper game to the blog properly.

Coming Soon:

  • A full breakdown of every setting I use
  • The actual Customloper code so you can try it yourself
  • A brand new Day One Diary โ€“ Because I honestly can’t remember anything about my original first day
  • Plus survival tips for weather that makes Interloper look like light snow

This isnโ€™t Interloper.
Itโ€™s Interloper with optionsโ€”and that might be even more dangerous.

Waitโ€”Isnโ€™t This Blog About Easier Survival?

It is. And that hasnโ€™t changed.
Customloper isnโ€™t about going full Interloper. Itโ€™s about dialing in a challenge that keeps things tense but playable. Think of it as controlled chaosโ€”for players who want pressure without the permadeath purgatory.

Think you can survive it? The full code drops soon. Stay tuned

Skyrim Survival Mode โ€“ Day 4 Teaser: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Frost

Teaser for Day 4 of my Skyrim Survival Mode run. Cold weather, fireballs, and one very overworked Argonian.

On Day 4, I leave Whiterun behind in search of adventure, loot, and maybe a bit of common sense (no luck there). But what I do find: hostile mages, freezing winds, and the dawning realization that maybe necromancy is the best form of pest control.

Full entry lands Saturday.
Bring a torch. Trust me.

Skyrim Day 3 Incoming + Blog Updates!

Skyrim Survival โ€“ Day 3 drops this Wednesday. After reaching Whiterun, I get caught up in the cityโ€™s favorite pastime: dragon slaying. Spoilerโ€”my attempt at stealth archery is about as subtle as a mammoth in a library.

In the meantime, the blogโ€™s had a few upgrades:

  • The Skyrim Hub is now live! Itโ€™s the central place for the full survival run and all related content.
  • The Long Dark Hub Itโ€™s the central place for the full survival run and all related content.
  • The Graveyard is openโ€”every permadeath now gets logged, labelled, and (lightly) mocked.
  • The FAQ page answers burning questions like โ€œWhy the Switch?โ€ and โ€œWas that death avoidable?โ€ (Usually: yes.)

New contentโ€™s coming. Expect chaos. Bring your torch.

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