A Dark Room
Nintendo Switch · 2013
About this game
This unique game starts the player in a cold shack, challenging them to stoke the embers of a fireplace with some wood by clicking on a button to effect the action.
The wood counter goes down, a quick delay passes until the player is able to toss the next stick in the flames... and then the world expands.
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A stranger, attracted by the orange flickering, enters from the cold forest outside -- a builder, taking comfort in the warmth, and freeing the player up... to venture out into the woods and find more wood! This is also done by clicking on a button, with a "cool-down" period inherited from casual games.
Eventually the stockpile of resources can be used to construct different kinds of buildings and tools such as animal traps and carts, and the gradual urbanization attracts further wilderness vagrants joining the small accidental community forming in the middle of nowhere.
The player can assign them jobs associated with the buildings, which typically enable the conversion of various kinds of resources (wood, fur, meat, scales, teeth) into other, rarer kinds (medicine, bone spears, leather).
Random events sporadically pop up, describing visits (and the outcome on the stockpiled goods) from hostile animals, thieving vermin, sage or mercantile vagabonds, ill winds of disease, and armed parties of other surviving raiders.
With the development of primitive weapons, the game unlocks a further macro scale, enabling the player to guide a scouting party into an initially-blank roguelike overworld map filled with dangerous random combat encounters (demanding quick, well-paced clicks on the appropriate action buttons) and locations to advance the village's options -- abandoned mines, ruins of cities and the sites of longago battles between technologically advanced forces.
Just don't run out of water or provisions! When the appropriate circumstances are met -- after discovering or looting new kinds of goods and the materials needed to manufacture them -- the options back home of
About Nintendo Switch
Released in 2017, the Nintendo Switch became one of the best-selling consoles of all time thanks to its hybrid handheld/docked design. Its cartridge-based physical format (as opposed to discs) has made complete-in-box collecting popular again, with certain limited print runs and Nintendo-published exclusives already commanding a premium on the secondhand market just a few years after release.
Gamevaro tracks A Dark Room for Nintendo Switch with separate market values for loose, complete-in-box (CIB) and factory-sealed copies, sourced from real eBay sales. Prices also vary by region — PAL, NTSC-U and NTSC-J releases of the same game often sell for different amounts due to print run sizes and regional collector demand.
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Rarity & condition
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Complete-in-box (CIB) copies typically command a premium over loose cartridges/discs because the original box and manual are more fragile and get discarded or damaged over time — fewer complete sets survive.
Frequently asked questions
How much is A Dark Room worth?
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Is A Dark Room rare?
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What's the difference between loose, CIB and sealed for A Dark Room?
Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. These are tracked as separate market values because the price gap between them can be significant, especially for older releases.