A Dark Room ®

this is something that my bf forced me to play b4 he went to bed so i was a little resentful but it turned out to be wonderful and rn I'm typing while he watches so I'm trying not to mess up

thanks jerma

Love this game, beat it a handful of times on my phone before buying the steam version. Simplistic in its graphics and gameplay, but tells one hell of a story! I feel like this is one of the few games that I can replay over and over without getting tired of it.

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 not even knowing it exists. This is solved via exploration. I sorta like this, because it forces the player to actually engage with the world around you. The gameplay starts out incredibly simple with just gathering wood, and building new buildings. Then you unlock the hut, which when built introduces the village mechanic. The village automates your production of resources when you unlock the building required (i.e. Steelworks for steel). You can unlock new buildings in The Dusty Path unlock after [spoiler] buying a compass [/spoiler]. This comes in the form of mines, which automate production of materials but costs cured meat which you can also automate but that uses wood and fur which you can alos automate. This track of automation for one resource scratched some ty…

[i]This review contains very light spoilers of about the first 20 minutes. I will avoid directly revealing the game's main twist(s), but if you want to experience the game without any kind of indication of what it is about, stop reading.[/i] A Dark Room has, as a game, lived several almost independent lives at this point. The original release was released on the web in 2013, then on iOS and Android, then on Switch, and, in 2023, finally on Steam. I've played three versions so far: web, Android, and this one. Not only did I play them because I enjoyed the game, but also because these versions I listed are not exact ports of the original web game! Each has its own little quirks, balance and UI changes, and even changes some of the story from what I can tell. My review will focus on the Steam version, which also has some nice improvements in terms of sound, but the web version is also very much worth playing. In terms of genre and mechanics, A Dark Room is a text-based resource management and adventure game, though I feel like it surpasses those labels as you progress. In terms of genre and feeling, it's a mysterious and dark experience, where you try to survive by maintaining your…

Eh. Gracefully short but not particularly remarkable in any way. Works praxeologically but I just don't find what it's trying to do very interesting. Not a bad experience per se, it invokes the mix of spooky and adventurous that it sets out to, but that's about it. Somehow overstays its 2 hour welcome (at least to me), as the last bit involved a bit of tedious repetition. Probably remarkable for clicker game fans, but that's not a bar that I care about.