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 ★ LOST FLAME ★ ROGUE'S TALE ★ HACK, SLASH, LOOT ★ VULTURE FOR NETHACK ★ DUNGEONS OF DREDMOR ★ ROGUE FABLE III ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Soulash

70% 👍 OF 548
About This Game

Eat the villagers, murder bunnies, milk cows, or exterminate gods! Soulash is a traditional, turn-based roguelike where your goal is to consume the souls of the living, conquer the vast fantasy world and decide its fate.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Consume Souls
  • …Slay Gods
  • …Turn Rivers to Blood
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Rogue

95% 👍 OF 513
About This Game

Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Changing Dungeons
  • …Test Unknown Potions
  • …Search for Hidden Doors
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

87% 👍 OF 551
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.

Player reviews say 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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Dungeons of Dredmor

94% 👍 OF 5.4K
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.

Player reviews say 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.
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Rogue Fable III

93% 👍 OF 747
About This Game

Rogue Fable III is a traditional rogue-like game which combines the depth, complexity, and challenge of the genre classics with a shorter, more tightly focused game length.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Raise The Dead
  • …Blast Foes Into Pits
  • …Electrocute Water Pools