The Dark Room overview

Overview

The Dark Room comes from Developers At Large, John Robertson and is published by John Robertson. It arrived on Steam on Sep 20, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Dark Room's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 13 September 2026 - 02:53:31 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 90% positive across 124 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Dark Room is available in 1 languages including:

regional rating details listed by Steam when available

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Dark Room has sold up to 4,221 units and has 109 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $46,497. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Dark Room overview details

The Dark Room combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

What is the Dark Room? The Dark Room is: 1. Sadism. With jokes. 2. An addictive throwback to 1980s text adventure games. 3. A one-of-a-kind retro-styled comedy puzzler that pits your pitiful brain against brutal deathtraps in the pursuit of freedom. 4. An adventure with a deep hidden story you can only unlock through skill, patience and exploration. 5. The kind of thing you can send to your friends just to make them very, very angry. 6. The exact opposite of an open-world game. 7. Like Fortnite, but only in the sense that it’ll make you want to kill. With over three-and-a-half hours of recorded content, plus profanity, comedy, body horror, puzzles and warped logic, this is the Dark Souls of text adventures, the BDSM of RPGs, it’d be a walking simulator, but only if you were walking through a minefield. Level One has 60 minutes of specially mo-capped dialogue and performance, while levels 2, 3 and Darkest give you even more, and will bring you the true story of Darren. Your money goes into making the game bigger, louder and more dangerous! The Dark Room is the videogame adaptation of the interactive stage show of the same name from comedian John Robertson. So play this, then, when the show comes to your town, gather with the other survivors. Just remember - YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! Pick up the game while it's in Early Access and help us create the full Dark Room experience! “This is the future of gaming.” - Ron Gilbert, on Twitter. (Original version, 2012) “Is there a map? I’m lost.” - Ron Gilbert, on Twitter, three hours later. (Original version, 2012) “The Dark…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Dark Room is listed as a game with $13.99. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Indie, and Early Access. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 13 September 2026 - 02:53:31 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 90% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Early AccessAdventureIndieGoreViolentComedyDark ComedyRPGAtmosphericText-BasedPuzzleRetro

Content descriptors

The Dark Room is a game that does not visually depict any violence or gore, but it does describe it in detail to the player. This violence and gore is usually directed specifically at the player, and describes the players violent demise. In addition, there are themes of death and suicide, and the player is sometimes told to kill themselves by the games antagonist. The games antagonist is aggressive and will also berate the player.

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Support and legal notes

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