The best 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
Text-based games
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DOS19894.2/5 Magnetic Scrolls
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Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.2/5
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DOS1991freeware4.2/5 Epic MegaGames
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DOS19824.2/5 Infocom
Zork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction ga...
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DOS19904.2/5 PC Solutions
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DOSMac1984freeware4.2/5 Infocom
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous free text adventure game based on the novel of the same name written by Douglas Adams (if you never read it, shame on you!). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was designed by Douglas Adams himself and interactive fiction god Steve Eric Meretzky, it was released by Infocom in 1984 for DOS and for...
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DOS19834.1/5 Infocom
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DOS19894.1/5 Infocom
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DOS19874.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom
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DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
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DOS19854.1/5 Cascoly Software
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DOS19934.1/5 Sports Interactive Limited
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DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
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DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
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DOS1990protected4.1/5 Dr.David's Super Crispy Software
The previous file hosted here was put online by mistake (it was the deluxe version, not the basic one). Copyright holders kindly allowed Abandonware DOS to link directly to their website where you can buy the deluxe version of Mo'Slo.
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DOS19844.1/5
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DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
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DOS19844.1/5 Adventure International
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DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
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DOS19894.1/5 New Era Software
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DOS19864.1/5 IBM
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DOS19884.1/5 Naughty Dog
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DOS19864.1/5 Adventure International
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DOS19834.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
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DOS1988protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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DOS1986protected4.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
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DOS2007freeware4.1/5
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DOS1989protected4/5 PKware