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Re: "Terminal games What are your favourite games playable in a..."

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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.

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2023-07-12 · 1 year ago

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☕️ Morgan · 2023-07-16 at 16:15:

@mbays that's really cool, thanks :)

🚀 ScotchSour · 2023-08-22 at 02:26:

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.

🚀 anthk_gem · 2023-10-10 at 06:47:

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.

🚀 anthk_gem · 2023-10-10 at 06:54:

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.

🚀 anthk_gem · 2023-10-10 at 07:36:

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.

❄ freezr · 2024-02-09 at 14:25:

I really like a Terminal game called Greed =D

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Terminal games What are your favourite games playable in a terminal? Here are a few I've loved and/or respected: Interactive fiction / text adventure games, e.g. Spider & Web, Varicella, Worlds Apart, Galatea, Counterfeit Monkey, Hadean Lands nethack, crawl, brogue asciiportal alienwave hunt mdg (sadly defunct multiplayer dungeon crawler on sdf) spellbinding and other gemini games (if they should count)

💬 mbays · 16 comments · 2 likes · 2023-06-22 · 1 year ago