A Dark Room
Minimalist text adventure game for your browser.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity in the bottom 1% of tracked projects; popularity more than 76%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 8.3k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 1.4 · 9 Jun 2023 |
| Repo updated | 23 May 2025 |
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Built with | Javascript |
Is A Dark Room actively maintained?
The repository shows zero commits over the last 11 months. That is not automatically fatal for a small, finished tool, but it does mean nobody is shipping fixes right now.
The last tagged release, 1.4, is over 3 years old. If you deploy, expect to build from the default branch rather than a stable tag.
A Dark Room ranks #14 of 20 tracked games projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What A Dark Room actually does
A Dark Room is a minimalist text-based adventure game that runs entirely within your web browser. It presents a stripped-down interface focusing on narrative progression and resource management without heavy graphics.
Best fit: It is a suitable choice if you enjoy retro text adventures or want a lightweight, distraction-free browser game to host locally.
Worth knowing: The project sees very little active maintenance, meaning you are unlikely to receive updates or bug fixes.
Deployment notes
As a static Javascript application, it typically only requires a basic web server to serve the assets and generally does not need a dedicated database or persistent backend storage.
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