A Dark Room ($1.99) is a strange game that caught on in a big way a little while after it released on the App Store in late 2014. It starts off looking like a very simple text-based clicker, but it eventually becomes something else altogether. I can’t say more without spoiling, but you should check it out if you haven’t already. Originally a browser-based game created by Michael Townsend, the game was ported to iOS by developer Amir Rajan, who was given Townsend’s blessing to create more games in the series. That led to The Ensign ($1.99), a super-difficult prequel that uses elements from the original game to create a unique challenge.

Rajan now plans to close out the series with a third game, set even earlier in the timeline than The Ensign. Details are scarce at the moment, but the idea is to tell the story of how things got the way they were at the start of The Ensign. That means we should get to see the world as it was before all of that apocalypse stuff went down. Rajan tells us the game is going to play quite differently from the other games in the series, following more of a roguelike style of play. Given how difficult the last game was, I’m kind of afraid of what Rajan is going to do with that kind of genre, but I’m also a little excited.

The third chapter of A Dark Room is still essentially in pre-production, early enough that it doesn’t even have a final title yet, so there’s not much more to show you at this point other than one of the early map designs for the game. But hey, having little information to go on is kind of the modus operandi of this series, isn’t it? Rajan will be finishing up work on his latest game, A Noble Circle ($1.99), within the next few months, after which his full attention will be turned to the final Dark Room game. We’ll be sure to bring you more details on it as soon as we get them.