CIRCLE Entertainment has continued its current trend of revealing one new game per week by announcing a partnership with Amir Rajan to bring A Dark Room to the Nintendo Switch eShop.
A Dark Room is an innovative, text-based adventure that was originally created by Michael Townsend as a browser-based game, eventually going on to be adapted for mobile devices by Amir Rajan. The mobile edition went on to be a top-seller, with its simple but mysterious adventure and storytelling drawing players in, allowing their imaginations to take centre stage.
The game starts as a dark room with limited interactive options, but soon evolves into a complex story and resource management challenge. The narrative aims to take players in unexpected directions, and the game could definitely end up being one of the most unique experiences available on Nintendo Switch. Rajan has been working on the Switch version to adapt the game’s unique style in a way that best suits the console:
“I have a profound love for gaming and want to push the medium to new artistic heights. Get ready to escape into a world I’ve painstakingly painted with 1s and 0s.”
If you're intrigued by this one, you can still check out the original browser-based experience for free online. The mobile edition has built upon this original concept already, but it'll be interesting to see how the Switch version can take it even further - hopefully these new "artistic heights" will make the Switch version rise up as the best version available to play.
A Dark Room is due to arrive on Nintendo Switch in 2018. We'll make sure to share any more news on this one as it develops.
Feel free to share your initial thoughts with us down below.
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I sampled it, but don't think it'll be something I'd invest in on the Switch for, even if it'll be updated further. The only text/novel/visual novel/etc type resource game that caught my interest so far on Switch was This is the Police. I'll still check in for more information on this one down the line at least.
a Text base game huh? sounds interesting.
I haven't played a good ol' text adventure in years. For the right price I could end that.
I've played through the iOS version a few times the normal way and twice on slave free runs. With the right updates, I'd grab it for Switch. It's really quite addicting. I wonder if this will include content from the prequel The Ensign.
I wouldn't mind spending $1 or 2 for it again. It was agreed survival game
As someone who grew up with text adventures, i'm definitely keeping my eye on this.
I would love to see some sort of Infocom collection one day, but since i think that's all owned by "Activision" (much like Atari, modern Activision is a completely different company than the actual great, original company) these days, it'll never happen.
Ha, I remember there was a phase at my old school where so many people were playing the browser version of this that the IT staff had to blacklist the site
@Flowerlark Ahhh, you stopped too early. It does start out as a clicker/resource management game, but it goes in a rather more interesting direction after a while. Brilliant experience on iOS - one of my favourite games on mobile. It's a game that deserves to be played, on any format, but it's hard to justify Switch eShop pricing. Also, there is unlikely to be any reason to double-dip; after getting both endings, there's not much replay value.
A port of a mobile game that began as a browser game... Not exactly a good endorsement.
But if the story is good enough, it could still be interesting.
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