Illustration by Shenanigans & Spider Ladies
So, two days ago I (unwisely) clicked a link and spent the rest of the day surreptitiously playing A Dark Room, a minimalist browser-based game where you build up a village in a post-apocalyptic world and go exploring. The writing is sharp and the gameplay is utterly addictive. If you like frontier games or mainly-text adventures this is probably for you.
If you haven’t ever played it, you should. Go and do it now. I can’t really say anything about it without spoiling the fun, but there are no graphics or sound, and it's free of anything too unpleasant. It’s not, as you might infer from the title, a horror game. It will, however, leave you with a creeping sense of unease, though.
What's so fun about the game is how such a completely minimalistic interface can lead a player down such an incredibly complex path. You won't understand until you play it for yourself, so go give it a try!
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