A Dark Room (2013)

- 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.
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