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
Text-based games
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DOS19863.4/5 Peter Norton ComputingNorton Commander was a file manager and editor application released by Peter Norton Computing for DOS. Norton Commander used a text-based user interface with side-by-side panels and featured copy, delete, editing and preview any kind of file easily: it was an improvement over the command-line only MS-DOS interface. Norton Commander 1.0 was fir...
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DOS19894.1/5 Infocom -
DOS1987freeware3.7/5 -
DOSMac19854.1/5 Infocom -
DOS19914/5 -
Windows XP/98/95Linux2002freeware4.2/5 -
DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom -
DOS19834.1/5 Infocom -
DOS19904.3/5 Peter Norton Computing -
DOS1984freeware4.2/5 -
DOS19844.1/5 Infocom -
DOS19883.5/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive -
DOS19914/5 Borland Software Corporation -
DOS19834.1/5 Borland Software Corporation -
DOS1979freeware4.3/5 Software Arts -
DOS19953.7/5 -
DOS19894/5 Infocom -
DOS1986freeware4/5 -
DOS19873.9/5 Reality Technologies -
DOS19813.6/5 Avalon Hill -
DOS19924.5/5 -
DOS19864.3/5 Borland Software Corporation -
DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation -
DOS1983freeware4.2/5 Norland Software -
DOSMac19853.8/5 Interstel Corporation -
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware3.9/5Dungeon Crawl (also known as Linley's Dungeon Crawl from the name of the original programmer: Linley Henzell) is a classic roguelike: an RPG with permadeath, procedural generation and high replayability. Dungeon Crawl was released on 1997 but it's not maintained anymore. The spiritual successr of Crawl is DCCS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup).
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DOS19854.1/5 Cascoly Software -
DOS19833.8/5 Pryority software -
DOS19893.9/5 IBM -
DOS19894.2/5 Infocom