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A Dark Room ®

90% positive of 65 Steam reviews

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by Amir Rajan. Published by Scratchwork Development LLC.

About the game

Critically acclaimed, minimalist text-based rpg. Come light the fire.

Tagged by players

Traditional Roguelike
RPG
Roguelike
Dystopian
Minimalist
Exploration
Dark
Adventure
Crafting
Pixel Graphics
Text-Based
Atmospheric

What players say

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Very Positive

What players say

Recommended
After my 1st playthrough, I have to say the way that the game tells the story is very refreshing. It doesn't outright say the events that happened before you woke up, but merely implies them, or shows them through locations on The Dusty Path. It relies on text-based environmental storytelling which is just so nice. The gameplay loop is OK, you may get stuck on progression due to not having a certain resource, maybe…
4.3 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Recommended
I love this game :) I first played it over a decade ago and recently rediscovered it - so happy to play it again!
3.5 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
The game was way to short for the price. There's not much more here than how far I got in the web version. I wish there was more content and story. It really did only take me 97 minutes to beat it, and a lot of that was waiting and repetitive actions.
1.6 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.
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