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A Dark Room Tips and Cheats
A Dark Room tips and cheats for this creepy and enchanting text game. Are you ready to go on a journey you'll never forget? Amir Rajan's unsettling text-based village builder for iOS and Android is just the app to take you. Beginning in a dark room (of course), you'll slowly gather resources and create your own village in a mysterious forest filled with danger and mystery. The Cool Apps Man couldn't stop playing this game, and now it's free before Rajan releases the upcoming prequel! If you haven't played A Dark Room yet, now's the time to get started. Use our A Dark Room tips to begin this quietly terrifying tale of war and peace.
A Dark Room Tips #1: Know Your Cooldown
- Each action you can take in A Dark Room has a cooldown period. Until the bar becomes blue, you can't perform that action again.
- Some actions take less time to cool down than others. Carrying wood refreshes faster than checking traps. Keep checking all of your actions frequently. This is the way to get resources fast, which is essential for the early game.
A Dark Room Tips #2: Always Investigate
- At random intervals in A Dark Room, you'll hear noises or see strange shapes that you can investigate.
- These events will usually cost you some resources, but will give you some as well. You'll typically lose wood while gaining scales, fur, or teeth.
- The resources you get are more valuable than the ones you might lose. Always investigate sounds and shapes. The odds are on your side.
A Dark Room Tips #3: Build a Mighty Village
- You can't do all the work in A Dark Room yourself. Sometimes you'll have to rely on others. If you build huts, they'll come to pitch in.
- Huts are the best thing you can build in the early game. You may want to delay building the lodge, trading post, and other buildings until you have at least 20 people in your village.
- You'll still want to build the cart as soon as possible.
- This might take a while, since wood can only be gathered a bit at a time, and the price of huts keeps going up. But later, when you have lots of supplies to gather, you'll be glad for the help.
A Dark Room Tips #4: Assign Work Carefully
- Once you've built the lodge, you can start assigning villagers to hunt or make bait for traps.
- Assigning work to villagers is the tricky part of A Dark Room. You need to make sure your villagers are all put to work getting resources you need and that nobody's time is wasted.
A Dark Room Tips #5: Triple-Check Your Resources
- At their core, all of our A Dark Room tips are about resource management. This is the whole point of the game. (Except the creepy story.)
- A Dark Room will throw lots of challenges at you. After each one, take a look at your supplies. If one is a lot lower than the rest, adjust your work assignments.
- You want to have constant positive growth in your resources. You can't win A Dark Room without lots of supplies. Be patient, you'll figure it all out soon!