Unprepared Log 11: Three Arrows Cold, One Step Forward Difficulty: Interloper Region: Mystery Lake Survivor: Will I woke up at dawn and the game immediately informed me it hated me. The day starts with the kind of cold you can measure in regret: three arrows. The wind is also doing its best to make sure I feel personally targeted. …

Survivor’s Log: The Map Hub Is Complete Game: The Long Dark Status: Every region and transition zone documented This one took time. Every region. Every transition zone. No shortcuts. The Long Dark Map Hub is now fully complete. All regions. All transition zones. All supported difficulties — including Interloper and Misery. What started as “I should organise these properly” turned into a full structural rebuild.

Stranded – Log 2: Bridges, Wheat, and Future Problems Game: Minecraft Platform: Steam Deck Mode: Survival Difficulty: Hard With a bed and a door sorted, I can finally start thinking a little further ahead. The immediate threats are handled. I can sleep. I can shut something between me and whatever wanders past at night. That buys me space to think beyond surviving the next five minutes.

Cold-Blooded – Log 3: Gold Problems and an Unwanted Destiny Game: Skyrim Special Edition Mode: Survival Mode Difficulty: Adept Survivor: Treads-Through-Cold (Argonian) Gold doesn’t solve every problem. But right now, it would solve most of mine. Money is becoming a recurring issue. Spells cost gold. Food costs gold. Staying alive costs gold. With that in mind, I checked the local inn in Riverwood for work.

Super Mario 64 Randomizer – Log 12: Every Door Is a Trick Progress: 60 Stars Reached Platform: Steam Deck Settings: Vanilla Mario & Music “The castle is technically helping. It’s just doing it in the worst possible way.” I set off with a clear goal: the Snowman’s Land door. On the way, I try the Tiny-Huge Island painting. Still locked. Still mocking me.

Somehow, the chaos is adding up. Today, Survivor Incognito passed 10,000 total views. For a niche survival blog built on permadeath runs, structured guides, and a refusal to chase trends, that genuinely means a lot. This entire project — every diary entry, guide, map, rule, and redesign — has been built and written by one person. No team. No outsourcing.

I’ve finally gotten round to a couple of long-overdue Subnautica jobs — the kind that make the site easier to use and stop everything from drifting into chaos. First, there’s now a proper Subnautica Hub. One place to collect everything Subnautica-related — logs, guides, maps, and future posts — without needing to hunt through tags or old links. Subnautica Hub:

Unprepared Log 10: Quiet Before the Teeth Difficulty: Interloper Region: Mystery Lake Survivor: Will Thankfully the recording survived. The wolves did too. Probably. Thankfully the recording for this and the next log didn’t get corrupted, so I can actually prove I made it through the day. With a heavy hammer sitting safely in Trapper’s Homestead, that’s one major goal off the list.

Stranded – Log 1: Sheep, Skeletons, and a 3×3 Start Game: Minecraft Platform: Steam Deck Mode: Survival Difficulty: Hard I spawn in a wooded area, right next to sheep. That immediately solves one very important problem. A bed. All I need is three pieces of wool of the same colour. Minecraft is very picky about that. I punch a tree, grab enough wood to get started, and craft a table so I can make a wooden axe and pickaxe.

Cold-Blooded – Log 2: Bleak Falls and Poor Attitudes Game: Skyrim Special Edition Mode: Survival Mode Difficulty: Adept Survivor: Treads-Through-Cold (Argonian) Bleak Falls Barrow doesn’t rush you. The cold does. Bleak Falls Barrow was the agenda for the day. I equipped the fur armour I’d picked up earlier and prepared for the climb. I also made heavy use of Clairvoyance…

Progress: Snowman’s Land Cleared Platform: Steam Deck Settings: Vanilla Mario & Music “Sometimes the problem isn’t finding the star. It’s reaching it once you do.” With two stars left in Snowman’s Land, my first question is simple: where are the red coins? I’d like to confidently say none of them are inside the igloo. I cannot say that with confidence.

Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end. My ideal day is simple. A slow morning, no alarms, decent coffee. A bit of writing or tinkering with the blog while things are quiet. Some time spent actually playing a game, not rushing it, not recording just for the sake of it. Family time in the afternoon, food that doesn’t require too much thinking, and an evening where I can sit down, unwind, and maybe survive one more in-game day without everything going catastrophically wrong. Nothing dramatic. Just calm, comfort, and enough energy left at the end of the day to enjoy it.

Survivor’s Log: Two in the Pipeline This is another short pipeline note rather than an announcement. Just a record of what’s coming next and why. There are two games lined up, both relatively contained, and both chosen because they fit the kind of survival experiences I want to document right now. Slender: The Arrival The first is Slender: The Arrival…

Survivor’s Log: What’s in the Pipeline This isn’t an announcement post and it isn’t a schedule. It’s a quick check-in on what’s been drafted, scoped, and quietly prepared in the background. Over the past few weeks I’ve been tightening rules, reducing sprawl, and making sure each series has a reason to exist beyond “I felt like playing it”. As a result, there are three series sitting in the pipeline.

What’s your favorite thing to cook? In real life? A nacho bake. It’s comfort food considered. I throw together nachos, salsa, cheese, some veg, and sometimes chicken, then lob the whole thing in the air fryer and let it become my emotional support meal. It’s quick, it’s warm, it’s crunchy, and it has the kind of “this will fix me” energy you only get from melted cheese and questionable portion sizes.

Stranded: A Minecraft Survival Diary — New Series Game: Minecraft (Java Edition) Difficulty: Hard Platform: Steam Deck Format: No Commentary Gameplay + Survival Logs Some survival stories start with a plan. This one starts with daylight and panic. A new series is landing on the blog: Stranded — A Minecraft Survival Diary. This is vanilla Minecraft played the honest way.

Cold-Blooded – Log 1: Survival Starts After Helgen Game: Skyrim Special Edition Mode: Survival Mode Difficulty: Adept (possibly dropping to Apprentice) Survivor: Treads-Through-Cold (Argonian) I could pick any race. I always pick Argonian. Some habits don’t need explaining. I’m calling this run Cold-Blooded, which feels slightly unfair for an Argonian. But if the game insists on freezing me, I’m leaning into the theme.

Super Mario 64 Randomizer – Log 10: Wrong Caps, Right Direction Progress: 50 Stars Reached Platform: Steam Deck Settings: Vanilla Mario & Music “When the obvious paths are blocked, you stop pushing forward and start climbing stairs.” At this point, progress feels artificially narrow. Bob-Omb Battlefield and Shifting Sand Land both clearly want the Wing Cap, and I still don’t know where that switch is hiding.

What are your favorite sports to watch and play? I’m not big on traditional sports.I’ll occasionally watch esports, and I usually dip into the Olympics when they’re on, but most of my time goes into gaming rather than following leagues or teams.

Unprepared Log 5 – Days 8 & 9: Written Evidence Only Difficulty: InterloperSurvivor: Will The footage didn’t survive. The run did. The recordings for Days 8 and 9 were corrupted and unsalvageable. No video. No backup. Just two days that still counted. My condition was bad, but time was at least working in the background. Maple and birch saplings were curing.

Unprepared Log 5 – Day 7: The Cost of Sleeping In Difficulty: Interloper Survivor: Will I woke up in the cave already behind schedule. The plan was clear. Grab the bedroll. Reach the rope. Drop down. Check the area. Come back up. Push for Mystery Lake. Weight was already going to be the limiting factor. The Rope and the Carcass…

Unprepared Log 5 – Day 6: Cold Enough to Rush Difficulty: Interloper Survivor: Will The Ravine doesn’t threaten you. It just removes your margin for error. Today was meant to be a transition day. Leave Coastal Highway. Cross the Ravine. Reach Mystery Lake. The route itself behaved. The cold didn’t. This place is brutally efficient at draining warmth. I kept moving, knowing full well this isn’t somewhere you loiter and survive by accident.

Unprepared Log 5 – Day 5: The Bow Dream Persists Difficulty: Interloper Survivor: Will It feels strange to still be here. I didn’t expect this run to last. Not on Interloper. But five days in, I’m still upright, still moving, still counting small victories like they matter. Because they do. Today’s plan was simple. Move carefully. Take what the map allows.