A Dark Room ®

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1. A Dark Room
   13 Sep 2026Developer post

   4K pixels and quality of life improvements.

   Major update announcement? Done. Quality of life improvements? Done.

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2. A Dark Room
   13 Sep 2026Developer post

   Pixels at 4K

   You have a Steam Machine (or a high end PC, Mac, Linux device). And you deserve the best presentation possible you beautiful human being. Enjoy.

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3. A Dark Room
   27 Jun 2024Developer post

   The Ensign (pre-sequel) Coming Soon

   Link added to The Ensign (pre-sequel to A Dark Room). Let me know if you like the visuals of ADR or TE more and I'll make sure both games get the same visuals. For The Ensign, I went with cleaner visuals as opposed to the retro aesthetic of ADR.

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4. A Dark Room
   28 Apr 2024Developer post

   Update notes 16.8

   Minor UI tweaks/bug fixes.

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5. A Dark Room
   24 Apr 2024Developer post

   16.6

   Minor bug fix. If you are having issues launching the app on the Steam Deck, go to Settings for the game -> Compatibility -> Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool -> Select Proton 8.0-4. Notes from the previous release: - Refinement of the UI. - Abili

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6. A Dark Room
   25 Aug 2023Developer post

   Steam Deck Exclusive Developer Commentary Released

   When I first released on Steam, I promised that commentary exclusive to the Steam release would be. That commentary has now been added :-) I've also made several quality-of-life updates (notably, the ability to toggle fullscreen mode via the pause menu).

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