The most popular text-based games
A few genres traditionally linked to the beautiful world of ascii characters still survives: roguelikes (nethack, angband, etc.) and interactive fiction, for example.
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Baseball Mogul
Windows XP/98/9519973.9/5 Infinite Monkey Systems
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street
DOS1988protected3.8/5 SoftServ
TomeNET
Windows XP/98/95Linux2003freeware4.3/5
Holy Grail
DOS19843.7/5
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
Legend of the Red Dragon
DOS19893.5/5 Robinson Technologies
Beyond the Titanic
DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software
Evets
DOS1988freeware3.5/5 SAck Enterprizes
Forbidden Quest
DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS19883.3/5
Stationfall
DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
Moonmist
DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Felony!
DOS19844/5 BrainBank
Slash'Em
Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5
Alice in Wonderland
DOS19893.3/5
Rawcopy
DOS19924.2/5
Zyll
DOS19843.9/5 IBM
Caves of Thor
DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
Warp Rogue
WindowsLinux2004freeware3.9/5
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market
DOS19843.3/5
Lynx
DOS1992freeware3/5
Pac-girl
DOS19823.7/5 Magicom Multimedia
Dragon World
DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
Starcross
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
LHA
DOS19884.2/5
Boggle
DOS19903.5/5 HVB Software
Farenheit 451
DOS19843.4/5 Telarium