The Dark Room
Developers At Large · 2018 · Early Access, Adventure, Indie, Violent, Gore
PC
Very Positive90% · 109
Compare prices in Official Stores
Screenshots
About The Dark Room
What is the Dark Room? The Dark Room is:
1. Sadism. With jokes.
2. An addictive throwback to 1980s text adventure games.
3. A one-of-a-kind retro-styled comedy puzzler that pits your pitiful brain against brutal deathtraps in the pursuit of freedom.
4. An adventure with a deep hidden story you can only unlock through skill, patience and exploration.
5. The kind of thing you can send to your friends just to make them very, very angry.
6. The exact opposite of an open-world game.
7. Like Fortnite, but only in the sense that it’ll make you want to kill.
With over three-and-a-half hours of recorded content, plus profanity, comedy, body horror, puzzles and warped logic, this is the Dark Souls of text adventures, the BDSM of RPGs, it’d be a walking simulator, but only if you were walking through a minefield.
Level One has 60 minutes of specially mo-capped dialogue and performance, while levels 2, 3 and Darkest give you even more, and will bring you the true story of Darren. Your money goes into making the game bigger, louder and more dangerous!
The Dark Room is the videogame adaptation of the interactive stage show of the same name from comedian John Robertson. So play this, then, when the show comes to your town, gather with the other survivors. Just remember - YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!
Pick up the game while it's in Early Access and help us create the full Dark Room experience!
“This is the future of gaming.” - Ron Gilbert, on Twitter. (Original version, 2012)
“Is there a map? I’m lost.” - Ron Gilbert, on Twitter, three hours later. (Original version, 2012)
“The Dark Room is the stern scolding we all deserve... one of the most clever, hilarious and innovative takes on the genre I’ve ever seen” - PC PowerPlay
8/10 - Starburst Magazine
“I ate lint” - GameInformer AU
1. Sadism. With jokes.
2. An addictive throwback to 1980s text adventure games.
3. A one-of-a-kind retro-styled comedy puzzler that pits your pitiful brain against brutal deathtraps in the pursuit of freedom.
4. An adventure with a deep hidden story you can only unlock through skill, patience and exploration.
5. The kind of thing you can send to your friends just to make them very, very angry.
6. The exact opposite of an open-world game.
7. Like Fortnite, but only in the sense that it’ll make you want to kill.
With over three-and-a-half hours of recorded content, plus profanity, comedy, body horror, puzzles and warped logic, this is the Dark Souls of text adventures, the BDSM of RPGs, it’d be a walking simulator, but only if you were walking through a minefield.
Level One has 60 minutes of specially mo-capped dialogue and performance, while levels 2, 3 and Darkest give you even more, and will bring you the true story of Darren. Your money goes into making the game bigger, louder and more dangerous!
The Dark Room is the videogame adaptation of the interactive stage show of the same name from comedian John Robertson. So play this, then, when the show comes to your town, gather with the other survivors. Just remember - YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!
Pick up the game while it's in Early Access and help us create the full Dark Room experience!
“This is the future of gaming.” - Ron Gilbert, on Twitter. (Original version, 2012)
“Is there a map? I’m lost.” - Ron Gilbert, on Twitter, three hours later. (Original version, 2012)
“The Dark Room is the stern scolding we all deserve... one of the most clever, hilarious and innovative takes on the genre I’ve ever seen” - PC PowerPlay
8/10 - Starburst Magazine
“I ate lint” - GameInformer AU
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
DO NOT BUY - STUDIO IN CHARGE ABANDONED THE GAME! LEAVING CREATOR IN THE DUST10 found this helpful
YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE1 found this helpful
In early access for almost a decade whatever that means so it does feel like there should be more. On the other hand it's a fun, silly adventure so I'd still recommend it. Once you get the hang of most of the endings though don't feel bad about using a guide. I'd love to see this expanded in some way but branching paths plus a lot of voice acting can be difficult to implement.
Great game, but has long since been abandoned. There is a fan patch, but at this stage doesn't appear to fix everything.
I was worried about this living up to the live show and it does perfectly. If you haven't seen the show yet, I recommend you go see it ASAP.
YOU AWAKE TO FIND YOURSELF IN A DARK ROOM.
Community reviews
—
0 reviews
Sign in to write a review.
No reviews yet. Be the first to review this game.
