A Dark Room Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• RCP OC: Could a (very small) fangame be tractable?

  However, we do have pretty good artists, some solid animatics of the bigger RCPs, and some pretty decent codefriends. A small, unique, tractable webgame might help market the community, especially if it's built around a good story. A weird, interesting little game like paperclip maximizer or dark room could perform very well - those always seem to get substantial traction. Likewise, a short visual novel with solid... Source: 10 months ago

• Looking for a MUD I used to play

  Save for the early oughts timeframe and the lack of an explicitly high fantasy setting, A Dark Room (2013), one of the earlier lo-fi idle games, seems to somewhat fit the bill: given the browser-based interface, a mostly gray scale UI, an on-screen world map (available in the later phases of the game), and the lack of leveling in favor of infinite progression. Source: 11 months ago

• Games with an "iceberg" narrative/gameplay

  A Dark Room is one of the first incremental games that came out after Cookie Clicker kicked off the craze, and it's free. Source: 11 months ago

• Games similar to the old Oregon Trail game?

  A Dark Room - Free text based browser game where you harvest resources, hunt and explore, and develop a small society. Https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/. Source: 12 months ago

• what incremental games should i play?

  A Dark Room: Another little game that starts simple, with unfolding mechanics, but which doesn't overstay its welcome. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

  Start here! --> A Dark Room [1] A Dark Room is awesome. It's also what got my kids hooked on programming once they learned they could use a browser's developer console to write JavaScript to change various in-game variables. [1]: https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

  It's not quite what you're describing, but it's an amazing game built entirely in ASCII: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com (not playable on mobile). The guy who built the mobile app did a really interesting recording about how the blind community picked up on it in a way that hadn't anticipated thanks to screen readers. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Favorite Games While Working?

  Idle Games - they have a tendency to become active if I'm sitting here and things are moving slowly so these can be dangerous. If you want low investment, Universal Paperclips, Kittens Game, A Dark Room, etc. I prefer ones with a 'story' such as it is. There are loads of paid options too. Source: over 1 year ago

• Favorite Games While Working?

  A Dark Room is a fun, deceptively simple game that can be played in a browser. It starts as a sort of clicker/idle game then escalates from there. It can be played here. Source: over 1 year ago

• [2022 Day 19] ...except it's an idle/incremental game!

  There are a lot of great short games in genre. A Dark Room and Candy Box 2 are at least on par with Paperclips. Source: over 1 year ago

• ADVENT CHALLENGE DAY 18

  Lol. I am sitting alone in a dark room playing A Dark Room. Source: over 1 year ago

• Text-based browser game

  Would be great if it has white background like A Dark Room but it's not a requirement. Source: over 1 year ago

• Do you care about story in incremental games?

  If we include "context" when we say story, absolutely... But it's also not needed. FE000000 is my favorite idle game and it has absolutely no story: it's a pure case of numbers go up. That being said A Dark Room, Universal Paperclips, and Your Chronicle are incremental games that either fundamentally wouldn't work without their story, or wouldn't be charming enough to actually play. Source: over 1 year ago

• Browser-based "mystery-solving" or "escape room"-type games that are good for a group?

  I quite liked A Dark Room, which I think meets all of your criteria except being "visual focused" (it is basically just text, not really audio). Source: over 1 year ago

• 32 [F4M] East Europe/Anywhere. Need the best friend & husband 2-in-1

  I'm not much into video games because got my first PC too late and have been already involved in other hobbies. I don't have X-Box, PlayStation, Netflix, iPhone, accounts in TikTok, Instagram, Discord, Tinder. When was a kid, I used to play console games on Chinese analog of Dandy, so I still like 8 bit esthetic. Once I found in web text game called adarkroom, I liked it because it seemed to me very unusual and... Source: over 1 year ago

• This “Choose Your Own Adventure” book from the 80’s is set on July 21st 2022 after an apocalyptic pandemic

  Seems like there's a very few projects out there that sort of tell a story, but it's not written at all - I'm thinking of things like A Dark Room, although that's more game than story. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Those of you making ~$500K+, what is your education and what did you have to do to get the job?

  I happened to be working on a hacky rendering engine for a toy spin off of the Dark Room game, and eventually my itch at work turned that into mithril.js. But this time, I needed to actually release the thing - and do it properly, with docs and tests and everything - since I needed it for work. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Cow Clicker

  Similar in this vein, A Dark Room https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ Though it is more of a story than the kittens game, not unlike the paperclip maximizer. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Why is balancing so bad in incrementals?

  Certainly, there are many idle games that do not follow this pattern, largely non-commercial ones. Some start out very minimal indeed, such that you would never guess at the kind of game they grow into. Crank and A Dark Room come to mind. Source: almost 2 years ago

• [Mobile][Incremental game] A very minimalistic and simplistic game about a Machine

  I'm pretty sure you are talking about Armory and Machine. If you want a similar game, A Dark Room is probably the most well known in the "incremental games" genre. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Are text-based incremental games relevant in 2022?

  Universal Paperclips and A Dark Room had overwhelmingly positive reception and both were in the top games of the year by Forbes. It's the quality of the game that matters, not fancy graphics. Source: almost 2 years ago