# doublespeakgames/adarkroom

A Dark Room - A Minimalist Text Adventure

Repository: https://github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/adarkroom
Language: JavaScript
License: MPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2025-05-23T15:33:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 33/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 23, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4809, "days_push": 467, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8244, forks 1774 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:19.829393+00:00)

## What it is
A Dark Room is a minimalist browser-based text adventure game written in JavaScript. It is playable online and has been ported to iOS, Android, and Steam, with translations in over 20 languages.

## Use cases
- play a minimalist text adventure in the browser
- find an open-source incremental/idle game
- study how a text-based web game is built in JavaScript
- play a game offline by self-hosting the source
- explore a multi-language browser game implementation

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight, story-driven browser game with no install
- you want to read or fork the source of a well-known text adventure
- you need a game that works across desktop and mobile browsers

## When to avoid
- you want graphics-heavy 3D or action gameplay
- you need a game engine or reusable game development framework
- you want multiplayer or online features

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: game, gui, internationalization
- domain: gaming-tools, entertainment, web-development
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: text-adventure, incremental-game, browser-game, open-source-game, minimalist, localization, web-server

## Member repositories
- doublespeakgames/adarkroom (main) score 33

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:19.829393+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:29:28.804027+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:19.829393+00:00, sha 1dc4d624812f)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/adarkroom (fetched 2026-08-29T08:28:16.758411+00:00, sha e697e5b602e5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.