EDIT: found - a dark room

i remember playing a game on my ipod that was a black screen with very simple graphics, pretty much only crafted from html (iirc). it looked like it was coded by hand. you played as a person alone in the wilderness and would have to choose a direction to travel based on a short text blurb. you would gather supplies and use them to build fire and shelter and eventually attract other people and begin a community. certain choices would lead you to death. it was around 2010-2013 i believe, maybe a little earlier.

it starts with you not having any memory

then you rest in a campfire

then day comes and you go out to gather resources

then at night something happens (maybe attack of some sort?)

then it repeats... you father more and more resouces .... wood, iron later steel and finally enough to repair spaceship and fly out of there

Its a small game... gets over in a couple of hours... basic graphics boxes and circles and stuff

What the title says it was a browser game, i remember it having a black background and it was mostly just menus. you organized the logistics of a small colony, i specifically remember dealing with hides and fur to sell and such.

it also had an rogue-like mode you could unlock and enter once you got far enough into the game, it was turn based and ascii and your main goal was just gathering extra resources like food and such for the colony.

i believe this was a game i played on my iphone, and i don't think it's scott cawthon's sit & survive game because i don't remember there being any art at all, really. i think it starts as just a black screen with some text on it. then you make a fire, and the screen lights up a little, and there's some mysterious character that subtly guides you to the good ending? but it's been so long ago that im sure i'm mixing things up.

Platform(s): Web browser

Genre: AFK, survival, exploration? Mainly AFK stuff

Estimated year of release: Between 2000 and 2020, I'd say?

Graphics/art style: Mostly text-based, I think there were some very minimalist and "line-art"y graphics but not sure; mostly black text on a beige background

Notable characters: The enemies, which at first are presented as wild beasts but are later revealed to be very much sentient and intelligent people that you just slaughter; the protagonist, which in turns is probably some kind of alien or monster

Notable gameplay mechanics: The basic gameplay was just your standard AFK game (click x time to farm sticks, click x time to turn them into logs, etc.). The idea was that you had to maintain your campfire to not die, collect food and protect yourself from (mostly unseen) wild animals using traps. You could also set out on expeditions, exploring the map of the game to collect resources and trying to understand where you are, and who inhabits the land. Very oppressive and mysterious ambience throughout the game (and remember, it's mostly text).

Other details: Outside from the pretty basic afk mechanics, what really hit me with this game was its story and the plot twists related to it, that's mainly why I want to find it again. If anybody can help, if anybody has questions, I'll do my best to answer them :)

It was a neat browser game I played once probably around 2016, it had super lofi art, like as simple as pixel art could be and had a cool eerie vibe to it. You may have had a little family you had to manage or something like that.

I remember hearing about it on reddit I'm pretty sure, I feel like it had a little blip of popularity on here for a bit.

There's a twist at the end you start assembling parts to a space ship and leave the planet or something lol

Third time typing this post, I guess I keep getting it wrong.

Choose your own adventure-esque game. You start in the woods with no resources. Everyday you spend energy on collecting resources in the woods. Map is the only visual aid really besides text. You find weapons to fight foes like bears you encounter in the woods. At the end of the game you finally find a rocket and power it up with resources you have gathered. Black and white game, at the end of each night there is the same slogan that is repeated but I can't remember it. Map expands as you explore

Platform(s): Browser
Genre: Incremental/ clicker
Estimated year of release: 2015-ish
Graphics/art style: Text-based
Notable characters: None by name
Notable gameplay mechanics: Eventually you could walk around the map in an old school RPG style
Other details: The game was post-apocalyptic, and was about some sort of machine that would keep you warm. I think that was what it was about.

I’m searching for this survival game I played a few years ago, unknown what year I know it was between 2018-2020, but it was an IOS mobile survival game that was all in text, hard to explain. It was a bit of a creepy game but I remember stuff where you could pick certain choices and had a currency, you could die if you chose the wrong thing or decided to go down a bad path(?). It was all in black and white. It was like a choose your own adventure but while surviving…75% sure it cost money.

I have no idea when this game came out but I played it in class when I got bored in high school like 4 years ago. This game was purely text based and when you lost/died you would restart. I believe you would wake back up by a light or candle and I believe that has something to do with the game. It would give you text options like - someone has entered your cabin, do you give them a meal? - or where to spend resources and stuff. The whole thing took place inside a cabin and you never really saw anything other than a black screen. Someone gotta help it's driving me insane.

Hey all, I remember playing a game around 2012-2013 where the entire map was just letters on a white background. The premise was you woke up and had to explore, and upgrade your loot while trying to build a spaceship to escape. There was a sequel that had a similar premise as well. If anyone remembers this it would be great!

Platform(s): iPhone (I think)

Genre: survival, City builder, combat, alien. Space?

Estimated year of release: 2010

Graphics/art style: text based

Notable characters: four armed alien

Notable gameplay mechanics:

Other details: You wake up at a fire you made. A girl malnourished girl comes around and asks for safety around the fire. You have two choices , you can send her out to look for sticks or you go out to look for sticks yourself to maintain the fire. Eventually she thanks you for saving her. She states that this area could be used to house is survivors. So you go out into the world. The world is represented as letters and you can move forward one space each time. Each one triggers an event, maybe a battle, resources or survivors. The survivors you can send back to the village and have them do work for you, like craft weapons and build houses I think. If you wind up making them do too much work, you have a thought that you have turned them into slaves and this somehow causes the game to end and you have to start over.

During one of the battles, you fight one of the aliens that conquered the world, and you realize that like them, you have four arms, not two like the humans and you deem it important to stop the aliens and free the humans.

If you manage to collect enough resources, you can build a ship to go fight the aliens somewhere. I remember doing this a few times, though i always died soon after so I'm not sure what happened after that in the game.

I would look at my Apple store history. However, I no longer own any Apple products and it seems to not let me log into the store for my Android phone. On mobile. Sorry for formatting.

Platform(s): IOS maybe also android Genre: RPG, management Estimated year of release: pre 2018 Graphics/art style: text based white with black text Notable gameplay mechanics: fire that wood needs to be used to save game Other details: I remember this text game on iOS where there is a fire you have to keep up and it saves the game. You go out look for wood and as you collect wood you can also build huts to get more people, to collect more resources. As you level up you can explore the out side world

I'm not sure if it was mobile exclusive but that's where I played it. In the game you wake up next to a fire and you have to keep it going. In the beginning you save a woman and warm her up near the fire. Then you start to build a village and invite people to stay in the village. Sooner than later you get a compass and can start venturing out from the village and the woman doesn't like it. There are copper mines (marked by C on the map), Iron (marked by I), there are different bandit camps. You can make you villagers/slaves build stuff for you. You can build yourself bigger water canteens to travel further and better weapons and armour to take on bigger enemies.

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Sound familiar to anybody? I remember it was a paid game, like $3-4

There is a game I remember playing as a kid that had a post apocalypse feeling, and was all black and white when exploring you moved on an ascii screen. I remember my character slowly becoming more evil and maybe escaping earth on a spaceship. Any help would be appreciated.

Platform(s): Android/Web

Genre: Menu-based, resource management

Estimated year of release: no idea

Graphics/art style: minimalistic, black and white

Notable characters: villagers that come to you as you build your village

Notable gameplay mechanics: you start by lighting the fire and you have to keep it going, you get more resources and start to build a village around the fire, you can send hunters and set traps to catch animals

Other details: it was s free web game and it was paid on Android

Okay, so I played this game while I was young. But there was two core mechanics I remember.

A player could traverse a map, but the map was designed like so:

XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXOXXXX
XXXXHXXX@
XXOXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX

O = a safe spot
H = Home
@ = Was the player
X = Random tile

Now while in this map, you could only go so far from base camp, as each tile you moved you some resource that you had to grind from base camp.

Now when you went to base camp, it worked like cookie clicker (ish) where you could press "farm" and every few moments it wouls give resources, that you could use to build another building that gave different resources in a different time scale.

However, not really any art during this game phase, just white text over a black screen.

Also I feel like the game ended with you attempting to get back into space? (but I maybe wrong with this detail)

Sorry for vivid details, thanks for any help !

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...

platforms: mobile only i think genres: adventure, simulation, strategy estimated year of release: 2017/2015 graphic art style: simple as hell, i could be made on a notepad (i wish i could attach a image to illustrate) notable characters: it's 1st person, literally me/you if I'm not wrong notable gameplay dinamics: CAMPFIRE THAT YOU ONLY KNOW IS THERE BECAUSE YOUR SCREEN GOES PITCH BLACK IF YOU DON'T LIGHT IT ON other details: it was paid on play store and I think the title was something like silent forest or something with forest idk. here's a description of what i remember: you started in a black screen and need to light the campfire on (you need to light it on from time to time or the screen would be pitch black, like you have really no light), and you need to create a little farm that is literally four squares and each one is for an specific animal that you can only distinguish by the first letter of the name like if it's hen that square only shows various letter "h" jumping around, if are cows are various letter "c"... and then you have this exploration part that you know nothing abou what's in front/on your side when you are in this "forest", you can choose what to take but it costs money, if you don't have a flashlight you can't see shit, and if something attacks you, you don't know what it looked like only says like "a big creature attacked you and now you're bleeding". well that's it, please help me find it 😭

I played a singleplayer game a while ago where it starts with your space ship being crash landed in a desert and you have to explore to find stuff (maybe a necklace?) to repair it. If I remember correctly theres a village building element where get some materials to upgrade your buildings. You have a water and food bar that depletes while you are in the desert, and if you run out you will die/collapse and have to start back in your base. There was even an achievement that makes you deplete water/food half as fast if you die in the desert after obtaining a certain amount of water/food. While you are in the desert you get attacked by army soldiers, a sniper, and even a band of teenagers in a town. At the end it turns out you are an alien and thats why they attack you. Ill try to remember some other details and post them here later. Thanks!

Hi! I'm looking for a text based adventure game. As far as I remember you woke up in a Forest and you followed a river. Then you found a hut. (Or maybe you wake up in the hut?) The whole game is text based and has no GUI.

I really appreciate any help. I've been looking for years now but just can not find this game. Thank you

Platform(s): I played on my MacBook but was a URL based game on Google Chrome that I found on the old platform stumbleupon.

Genre: survival - mining, building theme. I can't remember if there were enemies.

Estimated year of release: I played it around 2015 but I have no idea when it was created.

Graphics/art style: absolutely no pictures or animations. Simply a white background with words that show on the white background and a small grey bar under the word that would depleat like a timer that appeared when you click on the word.

Notable characters: no notable characters but I think eventually the word 'traveler' appears and they join the game in text form. I can't quite remember.

Notable gameplay mechanics: literally clicking on text. It's all 2d. No pictures.

Other details So I came across a website that was a text mining type game on stumble upon. Your screen is blank with a single word like, 'tree' to begin with. When you click on the word, a time bar appears and after about 3 seconds, a second word appears, like 'wood'. As you click 'wood' different text options appear and the entire game is played by clicking different words to allow other word options to appear leading all the way to building a village and starting a community. There are no images and the entire game is played on the blank white screen with words. To save the game you had to copy and paste the url. Does anyone know this game or where to find it? When stumble upon shut down, I lost it and I've been thinking about this beautiful game for years since

Platform: Mobile / I phone

Genre: Survival/RPG

Estimated year of release: 2015

Graphics/art style: Simple black and white, text based.

Notable Characters: none

Notable gameplay mechanics: You could explore a certain distance outside of the camp if you have enough resources.

Other details: Need help identifying a mobile game I used to play.

I’m trying to find this game I used to play around 5 years ago. It was a mobile survival game where you make decisions collect supplies adventure a little bit and build a camp. The cool part though was it was mostly text based, black, white, and maybe gray gameplay. When you were in the camp or whatever it was called there were number values for everything If I remember correctly, and when you adventure out there were like letters or Xs maybe that made up the map. I don’t think there was any artwork or graphics at all, I could be wrong though. You would collect wood and stuff until you had enough to build certain things and then expand. There was a sort of apocalyptic mysterious undertone. I forget a lot about the game but I remember it was quite fun and unique. I looked in my download history and tried searching online to find it to no avail.

Any help finding it would be appreciated, Thanks.

Platform: IOS App

Genre: No idea

Year of Release: 2010 latest

Graphics: None, plain white screen with running script

Notable Characters: You, villagers, aliens?

Other Details: I cannot remember the name of a game I used to play on my iPad. It had no graphics, and was a white screen with a constant running script. The premise is you are in charge of the village and allocate villagers to collect resources and explore in order to fully develop it. I do recall that there were a variety of different endings, some of which included being attacked by wolves, being overthrown, or being overtaken by aliens. I am beginning to think I made it up, but also do not have enough information for a google search.

(Web game is like on google on a website i did not need to download anything or it may have been pirated and its from some company and the year is 2000 because i think thats when it was made indont know when the type of game was created because i dont know what its called so im sorry) The game is like rainy day from cool math games thats made from Letters and @ signs and stuff you are in a cabin or house i dont remember you put wood in your fireplace to not get cold then an engenier joins you and you can start building a Village (i think its like a post apocaliptic type of game) and you can go out with a map and there are like other cabins with enemies and mines and you can make Guns and stuff its not a super hidden game there are videos of it (i think) i Just cant find it and im starting to think i Just made it up day dreaming in class (sorry for the bad english its not my first languege