Uploaded February 2012 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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The 2012 original! The first interactive videogame on YouTube! It changed my life, now let it wreck yours! :-) As featured on NPR, Kotaku, "this is the future of gaming" - Ron Gilbert (creator of Monkey Island.)

Buy the 2018 Actual Dark Room Game! steamcommunity.com/app/918530

Come and have a play! Over 4,000,000 views have gone into this game, will YOU escape?

I'm now several years late sending the dogtags we had made to people. I do apologise. They're in a dark room.

COME SEE IT LIVE!

All tour dates at: thejohnrobertson.com/livedates