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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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DOS19943/5

Monopoly

DOS19853.9/5

Silicon Dreams

DOS19863.6/5 Level 9 Computing

Silicon Dreams by Level 9 Computing is a trilogy of interactive fiction (text adventure) games released in the mid-1980s. The trilogy includes three separate games: Snowball, Return to Eden, and The Worm in Paradise. Each game combines elements of science fiction with puzzle-solving and exploration. All three games are text-based, relying on d...

Mindshadow

DOSMac OS19853.6/5 Interplay Productions

Spellbreaker

DOS19853.9/5 Infocom

Caverns of Kroz

DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software

Global Thermo War

DOS19853.9/5

Arachne WWW

DOS1996freeware4.2/5

Arachne is a graphical web browser for DOS. Arachne was developed by Michal Polák and released in the early 1990s as a text-mode web browser with limited graphical capabilities. Arachne allowed DOS users to browse the World Wide Web in a graphical, though quite basic, manner. It supported features such as displaying images, handling lin...

Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software

Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers

DOS19863.7/5 Activision

Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers is a video computer game developed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision. It was released in 1986 and is a sequel to the original Hacker game. The game was available for various home computer systems of the time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.In Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers, players take...

Air Trax

DOS19833.4/5

The Final Crusade of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software

Indenture

DOS1995remake4.1/5

Beast

DOS19843.8/5

Temple of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software

Crime and Punishment

DOS19844.1/5 Mindscape

Brimstone

DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software

Skullduggery: Adventures in Horror

DOS19863.4/5

Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics

DOS19853.5/5 The Software Toolworks

Star Fleet 2: Krellan Commander

DOS19894.2/5 Interstel Corporation

Air Traffic Controller

DOS19854.2/5 Cascoly Software

Dr. Ruth Computer Game of Good Sex

DOS19863.6/5 Avalon Hill

Omega

DOSLinux1988freeware3.8/5

Guns 'R' Us

DOS19933.8/5 Future Vision

African Adventure

DOS1997remake3.6/5

F-Prot

DOS19953.3/5

F-PROT is an antivirus developed by FRISK Software International. The name "F-PROT" stands for "FRISK-PROActive," emphasizing its proactive approach to virus detection and prevention. F-PROT Antivirus is designed to protect computer systems from various forms of malware, including viruses, worms, Trojans, and other malicious software.