Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Dark Rooms
Think out the box to solve riddles and get out of 50 rooms
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dark Rooms launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Take a new challenge and escape all Rooms, again!
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Unlock bizarre boxes by solving intriguing enigmas
2022 · xsgames.co · its alternatives →
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Horror puzzles on the clock
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Blank is a unique escape room, text based adventure game
2021 · playblankgame.com · its alternatives →
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Win $2,000 by conquering the spreadsheet escape room
2022 · coefficient.io · its alternatives →
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CodingEscape▲185The escape game for coders and non-coders
2021 · escape.codingame.com · its alternatives →
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A Dark Room▲90The most immersive text-based game ever.
2015 · adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com · its alternatives →
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A free android game with hundreds of riddles (fr+en)
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A surreal, story-driven RPG with horror elements.
2018 · sbspalding.itch.io · its alternatives →
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2018 · escape.mitchcrowe.com · its alternatives →
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Survive by fending of monsters in this cute & funny game
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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_Dimity Jones In Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts_ is a (mostly) fictional story, contained in a single text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the next. Think: escape room in the form of a novel. A computer, and rudimentary coding skills in a language of your choice, will be indispensable for performing the transformations -- and might help with the solving too! My wife, the author, passed away five years ago. This is not the last thing she wrote, but it is the most…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Help Emily to get her memory back in this hidden object game
2016 · gametop.com · its alternatives →
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Sneak▲6Sneak past the dark, Explore clues, Don't Get Caught !!
2024 · openworldera.itch.io · its alternatives →
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FreeMind▲89Challenge your friend and step out of your comfort zone!
2016 · freemind.today · its alternatives →
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A platform game with many unusual riddles and puzzle element
2021 · its alternatives →
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