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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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...
Bible Builder
DOS19923.5/5
Caverns of Kroz
DOS1989freeware3.6/5 Apogee Software
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac OS19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
Inside Trader
DOS19874.1/5 Cosmi Corporation
The President is Missing
DOS1988protected3.3/5 Cosmi Corporation
Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers
DOS19863.7/5 Activision
Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers is a video computer game developed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision. It was released in 1986 and is a sequel to the original Hacker game. The game was available for various home computer systems of the time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.In Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers, players take...
Breakers
DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
Boggle
DOS19903.5/5 HVB Software
Slash'Em
Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5
One-Nil Soccer Manager
DOS19923.9/5 New Era Software
One-Nil Soccer Manager is a text-based soccer management simulation game that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was developed for various home computer systems, including DOS, Commodore 64 and Amiga. In One-Nil Soccer Manager, players take on the role of a soccer team manager, making strategic decisions to guide their team to s...
Championship Manager 93
DOS19934/5 Domark Software
Murder by the Dozen
DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank
Mickey's Space Adventure
DOS19853/5 Sierra On-Line
Omega
DOSLinux1988freeware3.8/5
Larn
DOS1986freeware3.9/5
Data Perfect 2.6
DOS19933.5/5
Global Thermo War
DOS19853.9/5
Doszip Commander
DOS2007freeware3.9/5
Warp Rogue
WindowsLinux2004freeware3.9/5
Earthly delights
DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
Acheton
DOS19873.7/5
TomeNET
Windows XP/98/95Linux2003freeware4.3/5
Dragon World
DOS19844.2/5 Telarium
Guns 'R' Us
DOS19933.8/5 Future Vision
Farenheit 451
DOS19843.4/5 Telarium
Beyond the Titanic
DOS19863.8/5 Apogee Software
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Pac Gal
DOS19822.9/5
Midway Campaign
DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.