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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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The President is Missing

DOS1988protected3.3/5 Cosmi Corporation

Core War Plus

DOS19843.9/5

TheDraw 4

DOS19863.3/5

Executive Suite

DOS19823.9/5 Armonk Corporation

Pro Manager

DOS19853.5/5 Avalon Hill

Seastalker

DOS19844/5 Infocom

Lancelot

DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing

Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions

Madball

DOS19853/5

SRAM

DOS19873.5/5 ERE Informatique

Red sky at morning

DOS19933.9/5 Simulations Canada

Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing

Avon

DOS19893.4/5 Topologika Software

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.