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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Beyond the Titanic
DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software
Evets
DOS1988freeware3.5/5 SAck Enterprizes
Forbidden Quest
DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software
Holy Grail
DOS19843.7/5
The Patcher 6.1
DOS19933.8/5
Acquire
DOS19893.9/5 IBM
Alice in Wonderland
DOS19893.3/5
Rawcopy
DOS19924.2/5
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
Stationfall
DOS19873.9/5 Infocom
Warp Rogue
WindowsLinux2004freeware3.9/5
Magnetic Scrolls Collection
DOS19914.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
Legend of the Red Dragon
DOS19893.5/5 Robinson Technologies
Border Zone
DOS19873.8/5 Infocom
Baseball Mogul
Windows XP/98/9519973.9/5 Infinite Monkey Systems
Return to Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street
DOS1988protected3.8/5 SoftServ
A Dudley Dilemma
DOS19883.3/5
Sleuth: A Murder Mystery
DOS1983freeware4.2/5 Norland Software
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market
DOS19843.3/5
Lynx
DOS1992freeware3/5
Starcross
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom
Felony!
DOS19844/5 BrainBank
Mickey's Space Adventure
DOS19853.1/5 Sierra On-Line
The Witness
DOS19834/5 Infocom
Hockey League Simulator
DOS19903.3/5 Bethesda Softworks
Doszip Commander
DOS2007freeware3.9/5
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
Dragon World
DOS19844.2/5 Telarium