A Dark Room VS Godville

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: 11 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: about 1 year 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

I believe https://godvillegame.com/ is very close to what you are aiming at. And they have pre-moderation that takes months (that is, your game has to have that much time). But apart from that I was enjoying this game for around 4 years and creating content was maybe the most fun part of it, even as only 2-5% of the creations were accepted. Source: over 2 years ago

Godville (https://godvillegame.com) seems inspired by it, but taken to 11. You can play as actively as you want, but you can also close the tab and not return for years, and your character will happily quest/level up/buy/sell/eat/fish/heal/revive/change guilds/get drunk/etc. On its own. IIRC it even allows spending money if that's your thing. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago