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 These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems

Dungeons of Kroz 2

DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software

Temple of Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.8/5 Apogee Software

Rules of Engagement 2

DOS19933.9/5 Omnitrend Software

Acheton

DOS19873.7/5

Lawn Mower

DOS19873.8/5

EGA Trek

DOS1988remake3.3/5

Dungeons of Kroz

DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software

Stationfall

DOS19873.9/5 Infocom

Grand Prix

DOS19894/5 Wizard Games

LHA

DOS19884.2/5

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International

Dungeon Master's Assistant Vol 2

DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Amazon

DOS19843.7/5 Telarium

Crime and Punishment

DOS19844.1/5 Mindscape

Slash'Em

Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5

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...