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 · its alternatives →
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Unlock bizarre boxes by solving intriguing enigmas
2022 · 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 · its alternatives →
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Win $2,000 by conquering the spreadsheet escape room
2022 · its alternatives →
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SmartHome is a free, browser-based game written in vanilla JavaScript and no libraries. I don't want to spoil anything about the gameplay, but if you like text adventures, point-and-click adventure games, puzzle games, escape room games, art games, incremental games, cozy games, and/or RPGs, then this might be your speed. If you find it too hard and don't mind some mild spoilers, then check out the hints page: https://smarthome.steviep.xyz/help Enjoy!
2024 · smarthome.steviep.xyz · its alternatives →
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A surreal, story-driven RPG with horror elements.
2018 · 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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A platform game with many unusual riddles and puzzle element
2021 · its alternatives →
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Escape the Ordinary. Solve the Mysteries.
26d ago · escapely.blogspot.com · its alternatives →
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Hidden object, Android Game, Mobile Game, free, Offline
2022 · its alternatives →
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Escape games, room escape, hidden fun, hidden fun games, gam
2023 · its alternatives →
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A dark puzzle game where shadows can make objects disappear.
2018 · its alternatives →
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