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What are your favourite games playable in a terminal?
Here are a few I've loved and/or respected:
2023-06-22 · 4 months ago · 👍 Ruby_Witch
I'm a sucker for MUDs myself! When I was a kid I used to play DikuMUD which I found through Veronica on Gopher. It was revolutionary back then to play a game with other people, and the appeal of MUDs has never worn off for me. They still work great on a terminal interface.
Also, of course I love text-based adventures including the whole Zork series, as well as nethack.
NetHack is the one terminal-based game that I've put some serious time into. Once I made it all the way to the Amulet of Yendor and managed to hold onto it for a while until the Horsemen got me...
Slashem has a nice text only mode that looks good in a terminal. I feel like it doesn't try to murder me in the same way NetHack does. Also a fan of muds. Eternal Fantasy and Achaea are two that I've been playing. Eternal Fantasy not as much lately, as I recently started playing Achaea and have been there instead. There was a text based diablo one that was also nice, but it was tough to get it to work on any of my systems and I haven't picked that back up since first playing.
2023-06-23 · 4 months ago
Nuclear War MUD. Loved to explore it.
one of my favorites is greed
Nethack, and a MUD, Imperian, where I enjoyed the custom-client-code-assisted combat. I think Achaea is an Iron Realms game like Imperian? It's been over ten years since I played ... well ... either of these, though :)
A couple that I like quite a bit. A roguelike called Scrap, where you are a robot and can battle other robots and salvage parts from them after you defeat them to upgrade yourself. The other is a puzzle platformy type game called XORCurses. I also have a few others I like listed on my capsule.
— gemini.cyberbot.space/terminal/termgames.gmi
2023-06-26 · 4 months ago
I remember playing Nethack when I was at uni. But nowadays, I think the one I enjoy the most is Cataclysm DDA. The athmosphere is fantastic.
2023-07-06 · 4 months ago
Another nice unusual roguelike is Kerkerkruip -- it has a text adventure UI, so in theory it would be playable over Gemini. That would take some hackery, maybe one day I'll try it...
Update: I did it!
2023-07-10 · 4 months ago
csol (I think I got it off github) is a very nice pseudo-graphical solitaire suite I found. Ultimately I think I'm still desperately looking for the terminal games that scratch my particular itch. I really want stuff more in the Sumerian Game/Oregon Trail kind of family. There's bound to be ports of old games like that for modern terminals I just haven't found yet. I found a good one for Santa Paravia which is similar to Empire for Palm (not to be confused with Empire the terminal game, this is a Sumerian Game style game). I'd love to hear if anyone's found other similar ports of older text-based games for modern Linux terminals. I want more simulation.
2023-07-12 · 4 months ago
@mbays that's really cool, thanks :)
2023-07-16 · 4 months ago
well if we're talking BBS doors I could go on all day, they still host zillions of old dos games, muds, casino games and new stuff like Wordle. Locally it's probably frotz & brogue for me.
2023-08-22 · 2 months ago
Slashem, which is Nethack but with nice new classes/roles and tons of new content; All Thing Devours as a crazy puzzle IF, Spiritwrak because it's a crazy Zorkian adventure with an odd blend of phantasy and some sparse tech here and there; cgames, and mstly csokoban; super-star-trek because it's like a mini-Elite. BSD games are fine, too, specially battlestar, trek and advent.
2023-10-10 · 4 weeks ago
Also, I forgot. OFC, VMS Empire it's fine from time to time, but you need to launch it like this: "vms-empire -d 0" or "empire -d 0" to avoid the nasty delay on actions and feedback.
Slashem, which is Nethack but with nice new classes/roles and tons of new content; All Thing Devours as a crazy puzzle IF, Spiritwrak because it's a crazy Zorkian adventure with an odd blend of phantasy and some sparse tech here and there; cgames, and mstly csokoban; super-star-trek because it's like a mini-Elite. BSD games are fine, too, specially battlestar, trek and advent.