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Orrery Hall

Night Sky Text adventure that grows

A Dark Room

A cold room, a fire to light and a world that unfolds one line of text at a time.

Orrery Hall illustration for A Dark Room
Our own illustration, not a screenshot of the game.

A Dark Room opens with a single line: the room is freezing and the fire is dead. Light it, and a stranger arrives. From there the game grows into a village, a map and a story that is better discovered than described.

Made in 2013 and still free in the browser, it is a lovely example of how much atmosphere plain words can carry. It saves as you go.

Tips from the hall

  • Keep the fire stoked early on.
  • Read slowly; the writing rewards it.
  • Your progress saves in the browser.

A good place to stop

Whenever you return to the village. It will wait.

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