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.
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A-Maze
DOS19894.2/5 New Era Software
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
DOS19864.2/5 Infocom
Planetfall
DOS19834.1/5 Infocom
A Mind Forever Voyaging
DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom
Borland Turbo C v1
DOS19874.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
Indenture
DOS1995remake4.1/5
Rambo First Blood Part 2
DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft
James Bond 007: Goldfinger
DOS19864.1/5 Angelsoft
Myth
DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Borland Turbo Basic 1.0
DOS19874.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Turbo Basic was a programming language developed by Borland, a software company that was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s. Turbo Basic was part of the Turbo series of programming languages and development tools that Borland created during that time.Turbo Basic was designed as a fast and efficient version of the BASIC programming language. B...
Lancelot
DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
Sorcerer
DOS19844.1/5 Infocom
Armchair Quarterback
DOS19854.1/5
Baseball Mogul 2006
Windows20054.1/5
Championship Manager
DOS19924.1/5 Domark Software
Championship Manager is the first chapter in one of the most successful football manager games series. The first Championship Manager was a text-based British football/soccer simulation and included teams from four English divisions, European cups and domestic cups as well. Championship Manager was designed by Paul and Oliver Collyer and ...
Championship Manager Italia
DOS19934.1/5 Sports Interactive Limited
Slash'Em
Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man
DOS19864.1/5 Adventure International
Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is an abandoned text-based adventure game designed by Scott Adams, developed and released by Adventure International in 1986 for DOS but was also published for Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, ZX Spectrum, MSX. Questprobe Featuring Spider-Man is part of the Questprobe game series, the ...
Time and Magik: The Trilogy
DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
The Lurking Horror
DOS19874.1/5 Infocom
Crime and Punishment
DOS19844.1/5 Mindscape
Inside Trader
DOS19874.1/5 Cosmi Corporation
Galaxy
DOS19814.1/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Trinity
DOS19864.1/5 Infocom
Mo'Slo
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.
Turbo Prolog 2.0
DOS1986protected4.1/5 Borland Software Corporation
Breakers
DOS19864.1/5 Synapse Software
Cascade
DOS19904.1/5 PC Solutions
IBM Assistant 2.0
DOS19864.1/5 IBM
DOSBox
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac2002freeware4.1/5
DOSBox is an open-source emulator that allows you to run software and games designed for the MS-DOS operating system on modern computers. As you probably already know, MS-DOS was a popular operating system used in the 1980s and early 1990s. DOSBox emulates the necessary hardware components and provides a DOS-like environment, allowing users to...