Text-based games: ASCII, etc. sorted by title, from Z to A

In the past, lots of games used ASCII characters (text) to represent the game world. These text-only video games may seem primitive and outdated and, in fact, the genre almost died with the fast evolving graphics of modern games.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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Silicon Dreams

DOS19873.6/5 Level 9 Computing

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

DOS19884.1/5 Challenge

Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia

Seastalker

DOS19844/5 Infocom

Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing

Safe Opening Simulator

DOS19933.5/5

Rules of Engagement 2

DOS19933.9/5 Omnitrend Software

Rules of Engagement

DOS19913.6/5 Omnitrend Software

Romantic encounters at the dome

DOS19883.9/5 MicroIllusions

Rogue

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac19844.2/5 Artificial Intelligence Design

Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...

Rockstar!

DOS19894/5 Wizard Games

Return to Kroz

DOS1990freeware3.1/5 Apogee Software

Return to Doom

DOS19883.8/5 Topologika Software

Red sky at morning

DOS19933.9/5 Simulations Canada

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

DOS19964/5

Rawcopy

DOS19924.2/5

Rambo First Blood Part 2

DOS19854.1/5 Angelsoft

Questprobe featuring The Hulk

DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International

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 ...

Quattro Pro v4

DOS19913.8/5 Borland Software Corporation

QBASIC

DOS19914.3/5 Microsoft

QBasic, or QuickBASIC, was an interpreted version of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft. It was designed to be easy to learn and use, making it accessible to beginners and hobbyist programmers. QBasic was part of Microsoft's QuickBASIC product line, which included both compiled and interpreted versions of the language. QBasi...