Games Like A Dark Room ®

A Dark Room ®

Critically acclaimed, minimalist text-based rpg. Come light the fire.

★ CATACLYSM: THE LAST GENERATION ★ HAQUE ★ DOOR IN THE WOODS ★ SOULASH ★ ROGUE ★ CATACLYSM: DARK DAYS AHEAD ★ DUNGEONMANS ★ ROGUE'S TALE ★ LOST FLAME ★ HACK, SLASH, LOOT ★ VULTURE FOR NETHACK ★ DUNGEONS OF DREDMOR ★ WE ♥ IT 
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About This Game

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

In this game, you can…

  • …gut an RV to build an armored APC with cameras, remote-controlled doors, solar panels, water collection, and a powered turret.
  • …mutate into things like a cyborg, catgirl, or slime-mold creature, with your DNA rewritten over time by serums or radiation.
  • …hotwire or salvage a car, weld a makeshift ram onto it, and smash through a lab wall or a story gate.
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Dungeonmans

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Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.

In this game, you can…

  • …wear armor that makes most enemies drop dead just from seeing you.
  • …find a dead hero's favorite sword again in a later run, revived as a stronger version.
  • …spray a torrent of bees at enemies when everything is going wrong.
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Dungeons of Dredmor

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About This Game

Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.

In this game, you can…

  • …turn your entire inventory into lutefisk, sacrifice it at a shrine, then nest lutefisk boxes until the box explodes and kills you.
  • …blind monsters with a camera flash, then beat them to death with a museum bone you stole.
  • …place your gear on a random anvil and only afterward learn if it got blessed or permanently cursed.