Based on our record, A Dark Room should be more popular than Candy Box 2. It has been mentiond 54 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
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
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
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
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
A Dark Room: Another little game that starts simple, with unfolding mechanics, but which doesn't overstay its welcome. Source: about 1 year ago
Candy Box 2 -- there is more to this than meets the eye: https://candybox2.github.io/. Source: 11 months ago
Looking as an outsider you will see a bunch of weird-ass ASCII art that doesn't even look that good compared to, say, Candy Box, while as the actual player you're actually wrestling an eldritch beast made of deadly gas into the ground as you pulp it with a dead giant's body. Source: over 1 year ago
Not really like the games you mentioned but Candy Box 2, A Dark Room, and Kittens Game are some of the best browser-based idle games ever. Source: over 1 year ago
Not Candy Box or Candy Box 2, was it? Dubious guess but it does keep coming up. Source: over 1 year ago
I appreciate anyone suggesting CC Classic, but since I'd expect a JS Console minigame to be text-based, then maybe it should be more like Candybox2 (https://candybox2.github.io/ which if I'm not mistaken was part of the inspriation for CC!). Source: over 1 year ago
Cookie Clicker by Orteil - Cookie Clicker is a Wonderful, Casual, Idle-Clicker, and Single-player video game developed and published by redBit games.
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The Ensign - The Ensign is a Text-based, Role-playing, and Single-player iOS video game created by Amirali Rajan.
Idle Miner Tycoon - Build a mining empire! Automate and optimize your gold mine and become a tycoon!
Candy Box - Candy Box is a browser-based, Role-playing, Text-based and Single-player video game created and published by Aniwey.
Zork I - Zork I is a Text-based, Puzzle and Single-player video game developed by Infocom.