Hints for "A Dark Room"

[Pebblerubble (Peter Wiehe)]

Hi all,
If played nearly no choice game before. So (if A Dark Room is a choice game at all) I need some hint(s).

There stumbles a stranger into my room, but the only things I can do is stoke the fire or enter the forest. When I click on the speaking bubble in the bottom left corner, I get to a menu of games of that developer, not something game-related.

What did I overlook?

[manonamora (Manon)]

@rovarsson

At the start, it’s just you in a basic hut needing to keep your fire lit for warmth and setting traps for food. After a few turns, passers-by looking for shelter add their strength and numbers to yours, and traders stop by more frequently. You can build a community in earnest now.

Once a certain threshold has been reached, the game opens up and shifts focus to exploration of the surrounding wilderness. This second part effectively feels like a different game, perhaps a sequel to the one you’ve been playing so far.

It should take only a few minutes of clicking to see if you like the extremely sparse setup. If you do, you’re in for a captivating ride.

The start is very slow…

[Pebblerubble (Peter Wiehe)]

So I can’t interact with the stranger, instead his strength is added to mine automatically?

[rovarsson]

Basically, yeah. More people means more hands to do the work. More wood to carry in one turn, more traps to set. After a while, with more tasks to accomplish, this results in a kind of labour division.