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A Dark Room

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First release
Nov 08, 2013
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Indie, Adventure, Simulator, Point-and-click, Strategy · Survival
Platforms
Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Linux, Web browser

A Dark Room is an open-source software role-playing text-based game originally published in mid 2013 for web browser by Doublespeak Games. Later that year it was released in the App Store for iOS devices. In 2014 a prequel entitled The Ensign, which provided more insight into the world and its characters, was released for iOS.

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Release dates
iOS
Nov 08, 2013
Android
Jun 27, 2016
Nintendo Switch
Apr 12, 2019
All 4 release dates
Web browser
Jun 10, 2019
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Text
Where to buy
Keywords
roguelike, browser-based, ascii, open-source, free-to-play
… All 6, digital distribution
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Languages

  • Englishinterface
  • 日本語interface
IGDB · recorded 3 Oct 2026

Language data: IGDB · recorded 3 Oct 2026