Goodbye to all that.
The Ensign, the prequel to the bleakly minimalist A Dark Room is now out on iOS — developer Amir Rajan revealed its existence to us a couple of weeks ago.
I suspect that, as it was with A Dark Room, the less said about The Ensign’s plot and circumstances, the better. Rajan “highly recommends” playing A Dark Room first, and I recommend that, too. It’s a completely unique game that’s part ascii-art adventure and part interactive fiction. With the barest minimum of graphics it manages to create a grim, unsettling atmosphere that few AAA games can match.
For veterans of A Dark Room, The Ensign is an expanded version of the first game’s A Dusty Path segment. Rajan apparently thinks you aren’t up for it. “Best of luck to whoever attempts this game,” he says in the app description. “I imagine few will succeed in completing all of it.” All right tough guy, we’ll see about that.
The Ensign is a dollar on the App Store.
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