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.
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EGA Trek
DOS1988remake3.3/5
Armchair Quarterback
DOS19854.1/5
Business Simulator
DOS19873.9/5 Reality Development
Business Simulator is an abandoned business simulation game developed and released by Reality Development in 1987 for DOS only. Business Simulator is a text-based management simulation designed by an university professor.
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
DOS19874/5 Angelsoft
The mist
DOS19854/5 Angelsoft
Monopoly (Adam Stevens)
DOS19983.9/5
1893: A World's Fair Mystery
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS20033.6/5
1893: A World's Fair Mystery is an interactive fiction game developed by the American studio Illuminated Lantern and released in 2002. Set during the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the game combines historical fiction with mystery-solving gameplay.In 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, players take on the role of a detective investigating ...
Demon's Tomb: The Awakening
DOS19893.3/5 Silhouette Software
Star Trek: First Contact
DOS19883.6/5 Simon & Schuster Interactive
Myth
DOS19894.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Amulet of Yendor
DOS19853.6/5 Keypunch Software
James Bond 007: A View to a Kill
DOS19853.9/5 Angelsoft
Classic Hangman
DOS19833.6/5 Norland Software
Kingdom of Kroz
DOS1988freeware3.7/5 Apogee Software
Questprobe featuring The Hulk
DOS19843.9/5 Adventure International
Moonmist
DOS19863.8/5 Infocom
Rules of Engagement 2
DOS19933.9/5 Omnitrend Software
Time and Magik: The Trilogy
DOS19884.1/5 Level 9 Computing
Mind Mirror
DOS19863.6/5
Football Fanatic
DOS1998freeware4/5
Larn
DOS1986freeware3.9/5
Plundered Hearts
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom
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 ...
Bureaucracy
DOSMac OS19873.9/5 Infocom
Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.
Moria
DOS1992freeware3.9/5
NewsMaster
DOS19863.6/5
Wishbringer
DOS19853.7/5 Infocom
TomeNET
Windows XP/98/95Linux2003freeware4.3/5
Bank Streek Writer Plus
DOS19863/5
Borland Reflex 2.0
DOS19863.7/5 Borland Software Corporation
Borland Reflex was a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Borland International, a software company that was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s. Reflex was released in the mid-1980s as a graphical database software primarily targeted at business and professional users.