Digital: A Love Story VS A Dark Room

For your consideration for Uplink successors, the BBS era visual novel Digital: A Love Story. https://scoutshonour.com/digital/ Excellent visual novel you can finish over a weekend or two. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

More broadly I'm sure there are many good freeware and/or demo dating sims to start out in the genre although I'm not versed enough to recommend any offhand (unless you count Digital: a Love Story). Source: about 1 year ago

Digital: A Love Story is a pretty unique experience set in the dial-up BBS days before public internet. Source: almost 2 years ago

First of all, consider the world of Interactive Fiction! Ever play 9:05? Give it a shot, promise it won't take long. Digital a Love Story, is another take on the genre. There's even a traditional VN as a sequel! Source: about 2 years ago

For something more technically simplistic, but a lot more plot-driven, try Digital: A Love Story. That one is a favorite of mine, and actually made me cry. Source: about 2 years ago

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