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.
Nethack, maybe?
That used to be my slacking off game at my first real job. I’d ssh into my computer at home and sneakily play Nethack whenever I got bored. Either that or browse websites with Links.
This was around 2007 and way outside my comfort zone as far as computers were concerned. I felt like such a hacker at the time :)
I would recommend Universal Paperclips to anyone who enjoyed A Dark Room.
ugh…
man. I spent way way too much time on that cow clicker
I second this. The background and philosophy behind it, the questions you ask yourself, the thinking it makes are really worth.
Dunnet is a good hour-long game. Comes with emacs.
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.
MUD’s are poised to make a comeback.
As an aside, how is your thumbnail animated? First I’ve seen that.
It’s a GIF. You can try it.
If you’re up for a browser based game, Kingdom of Loathing can be really fun.
Fuck yeah. Glad to see them gaining popularity
Dwarf fortress classic
keep hearing about this game, what makes it so special?
It’s depth is absolutely outrageous, I would recommend the recent 4 part documentary about the making of.
Aardwolf MUD. Hundreds of people online at peak. Lots of replayability. Some color in your terminal.
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)
Good game
Alter Ego! Underrated text-based DOS classic, now easily playable in your browser:
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 :/)
atc from bsdgames. Also vitetris if that counts.
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