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.
Most popular text-based games
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DOS19853.4/5 Synapse Software -
Windows XP/98/95Linux2003freeware4.3/5 -
DOS19893.8/5 Level 9 Computing -
DOS19893.7/5 Wizard Games -
DOS1990freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software -
DOSMac19873.9/5 InfocomBureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
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DOSLinux1988freeware3.8/5 -
DOS19834/5 Infocom -
DOS19923.3/5 Epic MegaGames -
DOS19873.1/5 Everlasting -
DOS19903.2/5 Apogee Software -
DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software -
DOS19884/5 Challenge -
DOS19914/5 Magnetic ScrollsMagnetic 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...
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DOS1989protected4.1/5 PKware -
Windows XP/98/952002freeware3.7/5 -
DOS19823.7/5 Infocom -
DOS19864.2/5 Level 9 Computing -
DOS19963.8/5 -
DOS19833.8/5 Infocom -
DOS19884.3/5 -
DOS19834.4/5 Borland Software Corporation -
DOS1988freeware3.5/5 SAck Enterprizes -
DOSMac19853.6/5 Interplay Productions -
DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions -
DOS19863.6/5 -
DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls -
DOS19863.1/5 -
DOS19823.9/5 Armonk Corporation -
DOS19853.8/5 Angelsoft