Text-based games: ASCII, etc.
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
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DOS19844.3/5 Mindscape -
DOS19843.2/5 Infocom -
DOS19823.8/5 Infocom -
DOS19893.5/5 Silhouette Software -
DOS19844.1/5 -
DOS1991freeware4.3/5 -
Windows XP/98/95Linux2002freeware4.2/5 -
DOS2007freeware4.1/5 -
DOS19863.7/5 Avalon Hill -
DOS19883.5/5 SDJ Enterprises -
DOS19844.1/5 Telarium -
DOS19873.1/5 Everlasting -
DOS19884.1/5 Naughty Dog -
DOS19843.2/5 -
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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DOS1988protected4.1/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. -
DOS1989protected3.8/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. -
DOS1989freeware3.5/5 Apogee Software -
DOS19893.6/5 Apogee Software -
DOS19843.6/5 Datamost -
DOS1988remake2.7/5 -
DOS19873.9/5 Northwest Software -
DOS19833.3/5 Infocom -
DOS19853.6/5 Synapse Software -
DOS1988freeware3.5/5 SAck Enterprizes -
DOS19823.9/5 Armonk Corporation -
DOS19843.4/5 Telarium -
DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls -
DOS1998freeware4.4/5 -
DOS19853.6/5 Angelsoft