The best 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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Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
EGA Trek
DOS1988remake3.3/5
Hollywood Hijinx
DOS19863.3/5 Infocom
Knight Exchange
DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing
Kingdom of Kroz 2
DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software
Mindwheel
DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
The Astronomy Quiz
DOS19883.2/5 Softdisk Publishing
At-slow4
DOS19893.2/5
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software
Dragonriders of Pern
DOS19873.1/5 Everlasting
2112
DOS19943/5
At the Carnival
DOS1990freeware3/5
Bank Streek Writer Plus
DOS19863/5
Black Friday
DOS19833/5
Codebreaker
DOS1994freeware3/5
Kingdom of Hamil
DOS19873/5 Topologika Software
Lynx
DOS1992freeware3/5
Madball
DOS19853/5
Megapede
DOS19923/5
Mickey's Space Adventure
DOS19853/5 Sierra On-Line
Ooze: Creepy Nites
DOS19893/5 Dragonware Games
Pac Gal
DOS19822.9/5
Hamburger Hell
DOS1986remake2.8/5
CheckIt 3
DOS19902.8/5
DeskMate
DOS19842.8/5
Deskmate is a software suite developed by Tandy Corporation that provided a graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of applications for personal computers. It was often bundled with Tandy's TRS-80 and Tandy 1000 series of computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Deskmate included various applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, calen...
Ace 2.02
DOS20012.7/5
Murder by the Dozen
DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank