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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Air Traffic Controller
DOS19854.2/5 Cascoly Software
Zyll
DOS19843.9/5 IBM
Super ZZT
DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Math Cad 2.5
DOS19894.3/5
Scapeghost
DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
Caves of Thor
DOS19893.4/5 Apogee Software
Cutthroats
DOS19843.4/5 Infocom
Core War Plus
DOS19843.9/5
Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market
DOS19843.3/5
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...
Earthly delights
DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
Trinity
DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
2112
DOS19943/5
Beast
DOS19843.8/5
President Elect
DOS1987protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
FreeDOS Shell
DOS2002freeware3.5/5
Doszip Commander
DOS2007freeware3.9/5
Lost Adventures of Kroz
DOS1990freeware3.3/5 Apogee Software
Moonmist
DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Borland Reflex 2.0
DOS19863.7/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Reflex was a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Borland International, a software company that was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s. Reflex was released in the mid-1980s as a graphical database software primarily targeted at business and professional users.
Star Fleet 1: The War Begins
DOSMac19853.8/5 Interstel Corporation
Jewels of Darkness
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing
Romantic encounters at the dome
DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
Larn
DOS1986freeware3.9/5
Air Trax
DOS19833.4/5
Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics
DOS19853.5/5 The Software Toolworks
Microsoft Diagnostics 3.01
DOS19943.7/5 Microsoft