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A Dark Room ®

Amir Rajan · Scratchwork Development LLC · 2023-07-06

SteamPlayStation Store

IndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Jul 06, 2023 (Mac), Jul 06, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 06, 2023 (Linux)

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

90%
positive of 72 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
5.00★
PlayStation Store rating (4 ratings)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)
A Dark Room is an open-source text-based role-playing game. It was originally published for web browsers by Canadian indie studio Doublespeak Games on June 10, 2013. Later that year, it was released in the App Store for iOS devices. In 2014, a prequel, The Ensign, was released for iOS and provided more insight into the world and its characters. An Android version was released in 2016. A Nintendo Switch version was released on April 12, 2019, and was temporarily removed from the Nintendo eShop shortly afterwards. The store listing has since been restored and the game is available for purchase.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 46% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 45,806 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.4k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 72 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.49 at Steam (2024-03-14) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620232026Week of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$3.492023-07-062025-10-062023-07-06 — best price $6.992023-12-24 — best price $5.242024-01-05 — best price $6.992024-01-08 — best price $5.242024-01-15 — best price $6.992024-03-14 — best price $3.492024-03-21 — best price $6.992024-11-27 — best price $3.492024-12-04 — best price $6.992024-12-20 — best price $3.492025-01-02 — best price $6.992025-06-26 — best price $5.242025-07-10 — best price $6.992025-09-29 — best price $5.242025-10-06 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

153682026-07-11 — 75 pageviews2026-07-14 — 93 pageviews2026-07-17 — 86 pageviews2026-07-20 — 94 pageviews2026-07-23 — 93 pageviews2026-07-26 — 73 pageviews2026-07-29 — 68 pageviews2026-08-01 — 72 pageviews2026-08-04 — 120 pageviews2026-08-07 — 105 pageviews2026-08-10 — 100 pageviews2026-08-13 — 82 pageviews2026-08-16 — 92 pageviews2026-08-19 — 118 pageviews2026-08-22 — 115 pageviews2026-08-25 — 129 pageviews2026-08-28 — 80 pageviews2026-08-31 — 76 pageviews2026-09-03 — 121 pageviews2026-09-06 — 84 pageviews2026-09-09 — 81 pageviews2026-09-12 — 74 pageviews2026-09-15 — 113 pageviews2026-09-18 — 95 pageviews2026-09-21 — 97 pageviews2026-09-24 — 106 pageviews2026-09-27 — 74 pageviews2026-09-30 — 95 pageviews2026-10-03 — 72 pageviews2026-10-06 — 93 pageviews2026-10-08 — 94 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGDarkIndieCraftingAdventureControllerDystopian MinimalistRogue-likeAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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