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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Dream Zone
DOS19884.2/5 Naughty Dog
Mindwheel
DOS19853.2/5 Synapse Software
Suspended
DOS19833.9/5 Infocom
FreeDOS Shell
DOS2002freeware3.5/5
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
DOS19874/5 Infocom
Norton Desktop
DOS19924/5 Peter Norton Computing
Ascii Sector
WindowsLinuxDOS2007freeware3.8/5
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
DOS Navigator v 1.5
DOS1991freeware4/5
Monopoly
DOS19853.9/5
Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market
DOS19843.3/5
Turbo Pascal 7
DOSWindows 3.xMac OS19924/5 Borland Software Corporation
Turbo Pascal 7 (TP7) is a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was developed by Borland as an evolution of their earlier Turbo Pascal versions. Turbo Pascal 7 was released around 1992.Turbo Pascal 7 gained popularity in educational settings and among hobbyist progra...
Caves of Thor
DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
Forbidden Quest
DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software
Armchair Quarterback
DOS19854.1/5
Murder by the Dozen
DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank
Indenture
DOS1995remake4.1/5
Border Zone
DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Return to Doom
DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software
Forbidden Castle
DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
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...
Sleuth: A Murder Mystery
DOS1983freeware4.2/5 Norland Software
Zyll
DOS19843.9/5 IBM
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
Alice: The Personal Pascal
DOS19854.3/5
Red sky at morning
DOS19933.9/5 Simulations Canada
Midway Campaign
DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Borland Eureka: the Solver
DOS19873.9/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Eureka: the Solver is an abandoned text-based application developed by Borland Software Corporation and released in 1987 for DOS. The product is designed to solve complex problems, generate tables and plots, and perform what-if analysis. The user writes an equation, sets options, and instructs the software to solve the problem. The pro...
Castle Elsinore
DOS19923.5/5 Temple Software
Brimstone
DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software