A Dark Room
A Dark Room is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Games category, licensed MPL-2.0 and written mainly in JavaScript. It has 8,353 GitHub stars and its last commit was on May 23, 2025 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 8,353
- Forks
- 1,840
- Open issues
- 127
- Commits, last 12 months
- 0
- Last commit
- May 23, 2025
- Latest release
- 1.4Jun 9, 2023
- Created
- Jul 3, 2013
- License
- MPL-2.0Open source
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Project health
QuietQuiet: no commits since May 2025. It may be finished, or it may be abandoned.
| Last commit | May 23, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 0 |
| Latest release | 1.4 (Jun 9, 2023) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 4 |
| Open issues | 127 |
| Open pull requests | 31 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Jul 3, 2013 |
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About A Dark Room
Minimalist text adventure game for your browser.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom.
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Is A Dark Room free and open source?
Yes. A Dark Room is open-source software released under the MPL-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run A Dark Room with Docker?
A Dark Room does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Javascript), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to A Dark Room?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to A Dark Room include Mindustry, Lila and Luanti.
Is A Dark Room actively maintained?
The most recent commit to A Dark Room was on May 23, 2025. The latest release is 1.4, published Jun 9, 2023. It had 127 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Quiet" as of Oct 26, 2026.