Saw this one today it's on Steam Warsim Realm of Aslona ASCII based kind of neat
Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
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#122Lmao I wanna test later if ChatGPT can entertain me with this.
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#123“Stories Untold” on Steam might be a fun start. It’s a 3D game which simulates the experience of playing short horror text adventures alone at home.
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#124For something that’s not a text adventure (the best of which are great), there’s also nethack. Be warned, it’s insanely difficult and a massive time suck.
Or more broadly, rogue-likes. My favourites are definitely Nethack and DCSS (aka crawl). I would also like to try Cogmind (but it's unfortunately Windows-only), and maybe Dwarf Fortress. Other noteworthy titles are ADOM and Moria/Angband. There's a lot going on these days in this genre that kinda departs from some of the core ideas of a roguelike, the term "roguelite" is sometimes used. It's a fun rabbit hole to go d…
there is a large archive of roguelikes available here:
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#125Dragonrealms!
IMO Dragonrealms was great in the late 90s and early 2000s, but when I tried to get back into it in 2020 I found that rampant AFK scripting for skill progression killed my desire to put much time into it. It was supposedly still against the rules, but those rules were basically completely unenforced and people would just flagrantly violate them while the GMs didn't seem to care. I ended up canceling my account after…
That's pretty much modern Dragonrealms, yeah. It really is a shame. The golden age of the was unmatched though.
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#126Start here! --> A Dark Room [1] A Dark Room is awesome. It's also what got my kids hooked on programming once they learned they could use a browser's developer console to write JavaScript to change various in-game variables. Edit: A Dark Room isn't strictly a text-based game in the sense where there is much typing on a keyboard. It's more a point-and-click text-heavy game. But it still feels very much in the spirit o…
Is the dark room really text based? First you see is a GUI with a button.
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#127Some great resources: * Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB) https://ifdb.org/ * IFWiki https://www.ifwiki.org/ * Playfic https://playfic.com/ * The Interactive Fiction Competition https://ifcomp.org/ * XYZZY Awards http://xyzzyawards.org/ * electronic book review http://electronicbookreview.com/ * Electronic Literature Organization https://eliterature.org/
If you reference XYZZY, you need to suggest Colossal Cave! I think this is the text game that inspired all the others (and the only game I've ever played on VAX/VMS). You may be able to run it with `advent` on Linux. There used to be an Emacs command for it (maybe `M-x adventure`?), but I don't remember it and I can't seem to find it on Google. It looks like there's also a Python version at https://github.com/brandon…
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#129AI Dungeon generates endless text adventures: https://aidungeon.io
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#130Zork is of course the quintessential TBAG, alongside Hitchikers. A couple of other good ones: Vespers: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=6dj2vguyiagrhvc2 9:05: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=qzftg3j8nh5f34i2 Slouching Towards Bedlam: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78 (I haven't actually played this one but it's on my list) I usually play Zork using the Rezrov project: https://metacpan.org/dist/Games-Rezrov/view/…
+1 for 9:05. It’s sort, simple, and has one heck of a twist.