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A Dark Room (2013)

A Dark Room cover
Developer
Doublespeak Games
Publisher
Doublespeak Games, CIRCLE Entertainment
Platforms
Web browser, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Genres
Point-and-click, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Rating
3.0 of 5, 11 player ratings
Where to get it
Nintendo eShop

How it feels

This game feels like peeling back layers of a quiet, enigmatic world through sparse text and incremental discovery.

minimalisttext-basedatmosphericmysteriouscontemplativeopen-endedsurvival

About

A Dark Room is an open-source software role-playing text-based game originally published in mid 2013 for web browser by Doublespeak Games. Later that year it was released in the App Store for iOS devices. In 2014 a prequel entitled The Ensign, which provided more insight into the world and its characters, was released for iOS.

Screenshots

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