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A Dark Room

Minimalist text adventure game for your browser

Game Servers ★ 8.3k stars Medium setup MPL-2.0

Minimalist text adventure game for your browser.

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Strengths

Released under the MPL-2.0 license
Mature project with 8.3k GitHub stars
Written in JavaScript
Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Tech specs

Category	Game Servers
License	MPL-2.0
Language	JavaScript
Setup difficulty	Medium
Min. RAM	512 MB
Deployment	bare-metal
GitHub stars	★ 8,297
First released	2023
Deploy effort	Read-the-docs project
Health score	28 · At risk
Last upstream push	2025-05-23
Latest release	2023-06-09

Tags

FreeMulti-UserCross-Platform

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