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
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.
Not really text-based but https://crawl.develz.org/
Nethack is a command line classic
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.
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.
If you’re up for a browser based game, Kingdom of Loathing can be really fun.
Fuck yeah. Glad to see them gaining popularity
Aardwolf MUD. Hundreds of people online at peak. Lots of replayability. Some color in your terminal.
Dunnet is a good hour-long game. Comes with emacs.
Anchorhead. https://store.steampowered.com/app/726870/Anchorhead/
It’s a cosmic horror text-based game that adapts the Cthulhu Mythos. It’s fantastic. This is the updated and enhanced Steam version but the original 1998 version is free:
i almost ascended NetHack at work playing over Telnet on nethack.alt.org
