The most popular text-based games

In the past, lots of games used ASCII characters (text) to represent the game world. These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Taipan for Windows

Windows XP/98/952002freeware3.5/5

Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5

Star Saga: One - Beyond the Boundary

DOS19873.6/5 Masterplay Publishing Corporation

Inside Trader

DOS19874.1/5 Cosmi Corporation

Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software

Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software

TheDraw 4

DOS19863.3/5

Temple of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software

At the Carnival

DOS1990freeware3/5

F-Prot

DOS19953.3/5

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The Final Crusade of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software

Baseball Mogul

Windows XP/98/9519973.9/5 Infinite Monkey Systems

Grand Prix

DOS19894/5 Wizard Games

Doszip Commander

DOS2007freeware3.9/5

Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex

DOS19863.6/5 Avalon Hill

The President is Missing

DOS1988protected3.3/5 Cosmi Corporation

Baseball Mogul 2006

Windows20054.1/5

Mo'Slo

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Dr.David's Super Crispy Software

The previous file hosted here was put online by mistake (it was the deluxe version, not the basic one). Copyright holders kindly allowed Abandonware DOS to link directly to their website where you can buy the deluxe version of Mo'Slo.