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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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...
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...
DND
DOS19844.1/5
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
DOS19884.1/5 Challenge
Star Trek: the Kobayashi alternative
DOS19854/5 Micromosaics
Amnesia
DOS19864/5 Cognetics corporation
Midway Campaign
DOS19834/5 Microcomputer Games Inc.
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
DOS19844/5 Infocom
Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0
DOS19834/5 Borland Software Corporation
Rockstar!
DOS19894/5 Wizard Games
A Night with Troi
DOS1991NSFW4/5
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
DOS19894/5 Infocom
Borland DBase 5
DOS19944/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Paradox 4.5
DOSWindows XP/98/9519934/5 Borland Software Corporation
Championship Manager 93
DOS19934/5 Domark Software
DOS Navigator v 1.5
DOS1991freeware4/5
Felony!
DOS19844/5 BrainBank
Football Fanatic
DOS1998freeware4/5
Forbidden Castle
DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
Grand Prix
DOS19894/5 Wizard Games
Gumboots Australia
DOS19904/5 Reckon Software
Incursion
WindowsLinuxMac2007freeware4/5
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
DOS19964/5
Seastalker
DOS19844/5 Infocom
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos
DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Softporn Adventure
DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy
DOSMac19864/5 TRANS Fiction Systems
The Golden Fleece
DOS19894/5
The Witness
DOS19834/5 Infocom