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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Star Fleet 2: Krellan Commander
DOS19894.2/5 Interstel Corporation
Business Simulator
DOS19873.9/5 Reality Development
Business Simulator is an abandoned business simulation game developed and released by Reality Development in 1987 for DOS only. Business Simulator is a text-based management simulation designed by an university professor.
The Witness
DOS19834/5 Infocom
Caves of Thor
DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
Slash'Em
Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Starcross
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
Border Zone
DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror
DOS19863.4/5
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Earthly delights
DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
Caverns of Kroz
DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software
Baseball Mogul
Windows XP/98/9519973.9/5 Infinite Monkey Systems
Mindshadow
DOSMac OS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions
Core War Plus
DOS19843.9/5
Lynx
DOS1992freeware3/5
Temple of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software
Stationfall
DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
Monopoly
DOS19853.9/5
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software
Dragon World
DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
Incursion
WindowsLinuxMac OS2007freeware4/5
LHA
DOS19884.2/5
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
Boggle
DOS19903.5/5 HVB Software
Hockey League Simulator
DOS19903.3/5 Bethesda Softworks
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
The President is Missing
DOS1988protected3.3/5 Cosmi Corporation
Dungeons of Kroz 2
DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software