Progress Quest VS A Dark Room

Behold, the pinnacle of gaming evolution!!! Source: 5 months ago

The first time I encountered something like this was Progress Quest which is now more than 20 years old apparently. Source: 8 months ago

Progress Quest. Quintessence of all RPG games. http://progressquest.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Good news! Found a game just for you: http://progressquest.com. Source: 10 months ago

It was specifically done this way, since any other way You would basically get a "Progress Quest" ( http://progressquest.com/) but with better graphics. Source: 10 months 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: 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