r/tipofmyjoystick • u/paraki-la • Jun 23 '23

[BROWSER][2010s] Survival Rogue-like ASCII game A Dark Room

Platform(s): browser (HTML5?)

Genre: Rogue-like, survival

Estimated year of release: unsure, played it in 2016

Graphics/art style: ASCII

Notable characters: you, an alien who crash-landed in a forest trying to survive & other alien companions

Notable gameplay mechanics: a home base, where you could prepare for excursions. With the animals you caught, you could tan the hide or turn them into jerky (healing items). The wilderness, a dungeon crawler where you could encounter enemies (humans, dogs) and defeat them to take their weapons.

Other details: the items you acrue across the game are used to reconstruct a spaceship. The final stage of the game plays like a bullethell/space invaders.

I learned of it through the alphabetagamer blog on Tumblr, and I used to play it so much...

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u/Vital_Origin Jun 23 '23

A Dark Room.

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u/paraki-la Jun 23 '23

I think this is it!! Thank you so much ❤

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u/paraki-la Jun 23 '23

Solved: A Dark Room

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