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The Dark Room

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App ID 918530
App Type Game
Developer ,
Publisher John Robertson
Supported Systems Windows macOS
Technologies Unreal Engine
Last Changenumber 28850405
Last Record Update 6 May 2025 – 22:43:11 UTC ()
Release Date 20 September 2018 – 06:27:22 UTC ()
❓ 80.19%
123 reviews
0
In-Game

Addictive and vicious retro-styled comedy puzzler chock full of profanity, abuse, unfairness and warped logic. Will You: Go North? Find Light Switch? Cower and whimper like a beaten swine? Make your decision and escape The Dark Room! Just remember - YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!

Additional Information

Developer Developers At Large
metacritic_name The Dark Room
controller_support full
community_visible_stats Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher John Robertson
Store Release Date 20 September 2018 – 07:00:00 UTC ()
osarch 64
community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Adventure (25)
Store Genres Adventure (25), Indie (23), Early Access (70)
Steam Release Date 20 September 2018 – 06:27:22 UTC ()
Original Release Date 20 September 2018 – 07:00:00 UTC () (1537426800)
Store Asset Modification Time 10 September 2018 – 05:57:30 UTC () (1536559050)
review_score 8
review_percentage 89
Detected Technologies (?) Unreal Engine, NVIDIA_APEX SDK, NVIDIA_Nsight_Aftermath SDK, NVIDIA_PhysX SDK, NvCloth SDK, Ogg SDK, Vorbis SDK
restricted_countries DE
Germany
Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
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First seen on SteamDB 6 August 2018 – 08:03:11 UTC (), in changelist #4861458
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes Yes Yes

Tags

🐤 Early Access 🗺️ Adventure 🌱 Indie 😖 Gore 👊 Violent 🤡 Comedy 🧛🏻 Dark Comedy 🎲 RPG 🌫 Atmospheric 📝 Text-Based 🧩 Puzzle 👾 Retro

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Cloud Family Sharing Early Access

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Assets

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timestamp27 April 2022 – 09:40:16 UTC
Trailers
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Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
918531 Windows 64-bitThe Dark Room win64 509.89 MiB 248.13 MiB
918532 macOS The Dark Room macOS 702.50 MiB 372.87 MiB

Total size on disk is 1.18 GiB and total download size is 620.99 MiB.

Total size on disk is 509.89 MiB and total download size is 248.13 MiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 3220060 17 October 2018 – 08:18:49 UTC

Other

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privatebranches 1
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