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A Dark Room

Minimalist text adventure game for your browser.

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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push May 2025.

#18 of 20 in Games

At a glance

A Dark Room quick facts

Health score
26/100 STALE
Stars
8,368
Last commit
1.4 years ago (May 2025)
Latest release
1.4, Jun 2023
Licence
MPL-2.0

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Why it ranks here

Health score explained

A Dark Room scores 26/100, #18 of 20 in Games: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (1.4, 3.4 years ago) earns 0.0 of 25, 8,368 stars add 15.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.

Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.

  • Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35

    0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)

  • Release recency 0.0 / 25

    1.4 released 3.4 years ago

  • Stars 15.7 / 20

    8.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)

  • Not archived 10.0 / 10

    Repository is active

  • Docker support 0.0 / 10

    No Docker support advertised

Commit activity

0 commits over the last 12 months
0
Last 90 days
0
Last 12 months
1.4 years ago
Last push

Ranked #18 of 20 tools in Games by health , between Suroi (#17) and Posio (#19) .

Details

LicenceMPL-2.0
PlatformsJavascript
Latest release1.4 · 3.4 years ago
Stars8,368
Open issues127
DockerNot advertised
Repositorydoublespeakgames/adarkroom ↗

A Dark Room vs its top 5 alternatives

Active tools that share a category with A Dark Room (Games), scored on the same five terms.

Tool Health Stars Licence Last commit
OpenTTD 94 8.4k GPL-2.0 yesterday
Razzia 92 1.1k MIT 2 days ago
Mindustry 88 30k GPL-3.0 8 days ago
Luanti 87 14k LGPL-2.1 yesterday
Veloren 79 2.4k GPL-3.0 today
A Dark Room (this tool) 26 8.4k MPL-2.0 1.4 years ago

A Dark Room: common questions

Is A Dark Room still maintained?

A Dark Room had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1.4 years ago; the latest tagged release, 1.4, is from 3.4 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.