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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Larn
DOS1986freeware3.9/5
Border Zone
DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom
Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
Moria
DOS1992freeware3.9/5
The Patcher 6.1
DOS19933.8/5
Acquire
DOS19893.9/5 IBM
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street
DOS1988protected3.8/5 SoftServ
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
Baseball Mogul
Windows XP/98/9519973.9/5 Infinite Monkey Systems
Rawcopy
DOS19924.2/5
Stationfall
DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
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
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Starcross
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
Warp Rogue
WindowsLinux2004freeware3.9/5
Alice in Wonderland
DOS19893.3/5
The Witness
DOS19834/5 Infocom
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software
Felony!
DOS19844/5 BrainBank
Sleuth: A Murder Mystery
DOS1983freeware4.2/5 Norland Software
Lynx
DOS1992freeware3/5
Mickey's Space Adventure
DOS19853.1/5 Sierra On-Line
Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market
DOS19843.3/5
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS19883.3/5
Dragon World
DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
Midway Campaign
DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Hockey League Simulator
DOS19903.3/5 Bethesda Softworks
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft