The Game Census
The Dark Room cover art

The Dark Room

Developers At Large · John Robertson · 2018-09-19

Steam

AdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 19, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 19, 2018 (Mac)

Addictive and vicious retro-styled comedy puzzler chock full of profanity, abuse, unfairness and warped logic. Will You: Go North? Find Light Switch? Cower and whimper like a beaten swine? Make your decision and escape The Dark Room! Just remember - YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!

90%
positive of 124 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$13.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (50 reviews).
  • · Top 43% of 21,608 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.1k–7.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 124 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at Game Jolt (2020-07-15) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
505020182025Week of 2018-09-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$13.99$2.992018-09-202020-07-152018-09-20 — best price $12.592018-09-26 — best price $13.992018-11-21 — best price $12.592018-11-27 — best price $13.992018-12-21 — best price $12.592019-01-04 — best price $13.992019-01-24 — best price $12.592019-01-28 — best price $13.992019-02-04 — best price $12.592019-02-12 — best price $13.992019-06-25 — best price $12.592019-07-10 — best price $13.992020-07-15 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
95.6%
earned "This walking simulator kicks"
47.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGGoreIndieRetroComedyPuzzleViolentAdventureText-BasedAtmospheric

Census log

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

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