Original question by @capuccino@lemmy.world
I've played A dark room, and Zork. I'm looking something more like the first one, text-based but able to push some buttons to do things rater than do everything with commands. I've thinking in Dwarf Fortress, but it's too colorish, like Brogue, which I do like a lot.
Do anyone have some recommendations? Thank you.
Legend of the green dragon
Nethack, maybe?
I would recommend Universal Paperclips to anyone who enjoyed A Dark Room.
corruption of champions
MUD’s are poised to make a comeback.
As an aside, how is your thumbnail animated? First I’ve seen that.
Not really text-based but https://crawl.develz.org/
you could explore yourworldoftext its basically an infinite multiplayer word processor, where anyone can put down text anywhere and edit it.
im not gonna spoil too much as that would ruin the fun, but i will say the rabbit hole goes deep.
useful tip: click menu > show coordinates.
bitburner!
(a programming-based incremental RPG where you write JavaScript scripts to automate gameplay, hack servers, learn skills, and progress in a cyberpunk world. free on steam or in your browser)
Nethack is a command line classic
Colossal Cave Adventure
Hunt the Wumpus
any MUD
Dunnet is a good hour-long game. Comes with emacs.
ifdb.org is good for this! i'd recommend Counterfeit Monkey or Lost Pig.
If you're up for a browser based game, Kingdom of Loathing can be really fun.
Aardwolf MUD. Hundreds of people online at peak. Lots of replayability. Some color in your terminal.
Frogcomposband is my favourite Angband varient. There's a huge amount of classes to pick from, towns with quests and once you get a hang of it, most of the interactions can be done by the number pad.
Alter Ego! Underrated text-based DOS classic, now easily playable in your browser:
i almost ascended NetHack at work playing over Telnet on nethack.alt.org
not what you're asking for, but it's worth a little fun goofing around with 'Perchance' dungeons and dragons AI.
I got married to a rock.
(it's not that good otherwise, doesn't compare to actual people :/)
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead
This one! It's called Evolve https://pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/
Dwarf fortress classic
atc from bsdgames. Also vitetris if that counts.
trimps, it's mostly text ish and crazy good ! Just make sure you type it with an i
A good one is one called "Excel". You make up numbers and put them in boxes, with the goal of getting "impression" points. The fancier your graphs, the more points you get. You can build up your points to get "promotions". The best feature of this game is that your points can make you IRL money!
Some people find the game boring, but I think that's only because they're not creative enough with making up numbers, and get bogged down in "truth" and "accuracy."
Rogue or Nethack are great.
In terms of adventure games, there is of course Adventure. And The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
You should look into MUDs, its been like 20 years since I played any, but there's probably a couple active ones still around
Check out Type Help, text-based murder mystery.
I grew up playing a mud called discworldmud, it's an entire multiplayer world that's still really active and entirely text based and entirely free. You should check that out. Plus Tintin++ to connect from your terminal ;)
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but its worth giving a shot. A collection of TUI based games
I haven't invested too much time into it, but you should try Pokete! It's Pokemon, but with ASCII visuals on a terminal window :)
terminal /esc is good. its a game where you try to exit out of a fake computer system.
also there are some BBS's still online you can telnet to and play their games.
Mentioned this in a thread, but will comment at a top-level:
ProsperousUniverse.com - You’ll end up wanting to use spreadsheets for the game. It’s EVE Online production/trading without the combat.
It’s a very slow paced game so don’t go into it expecting a current-era gaming experience. And yes, super viable to play the game without paying anything for at least 9months.
Why on earth did you submit this with that gif??
Erion is a really nice community. Quick commands for moving around and combat encounters are fully automatic with some key presses if you want to change the type of attack etc.
nethack :3
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