When comparing Candy Box 2 vs A Dark Room, the Slant community recommends A Dark Room for most people. In the question“What are the best browser based idle games?” A Dark Room is ranked 4th while Candy Box 2 is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose A Dark Room is:
The controls for the game never changes from the original outset, click on the corresponding button for the action one wants to perform. While more and more buttons will be added, the core concept does not change.
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Pros
Pro Simple premise that grows the longer one plays
As a player starts there is only two actions, eat candy or throw it on the ground, but as the game progresses, more things will show up on the board that allow for more interaction. So the more time one spends with the game, the more they will get out of it in gameplay and features.
Pro Has a sense of humor
Much of the game will draw attention to certain phenomena in order to make fun of it. This is part of the experience of the game and makes for an amusing playthrough.
Pro Easy to understand controls
The controls for the game never changes from the original outset, click on the corresponding button for the action one wants to perform. While more and more buttons will be added, the core concept does not change.
Pro Simplistic gameplay grows the longer one plays
Starting out there is only one button to pick from, to stoke ones fire, but slowly the game progresses and allows for more actions such a gathering wood and then building things with that wood. The deeper the player goes into the game the more there will be to do witch keeps the player intrigued as to what will be available next.
Cons
Con Art may be seen as simplistic
Utilizing ASCII art in the game definitely has an old school feeling while playing, this may not appeal to everyone and can be seen as too simplistic.
Con Lack of explanation
There is no tutorial, there is no explanation of what is happening in the game. While controls are easy to figure out one does not ever really know why they are doing the things they choose to do in the game, which may be too vague for some users.