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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
🐤 Early Access 🗺️ Adventure 😖 Gore 👊 Violent 🤡 Comedy

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)
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
256727135 ↴
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User File System

Key Value
quota 1.00 MiB (1048576)
maxnumfiles 10
savefiles
0 ↴
rootWinAppDataLocal
pathDarkRoomUnreal/Saved/SaveGames
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rootoverrides
1 ↴
rootWinAppDataLocal
osMacOS
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Save File Locations

Based on the configuration above, this is where we think the save files are located.

Read more about cloud saves in Steamworks documentation.

Platform Path Pattern
[All OSes] %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/DarkRoomUnreal/Saved/SaveGames *.sav
MacOS (Override) ~/Library/Application Support/EpicDarkRoomUnreal/Saved/SaveGames
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