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by taviso 1930 days ago
What is the greatest terminal game ever written?

I guess rogue, adom, nethack would be popular answers; probably the entire infocom catalog?

They're not really my cup of tea, the game I've enjoyed the most is probably asciiportal.

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ascii-patrol is impressive. https://github.com/msokalski/ascii-patrol
Hello Tavis. On global IF:

Most Infocom games, plus Adventure.

From IF archive (amateur games, but these are anything but amateur).

Curses.

Jigsaw.

Anchorhead.

Spider and Web.

On roguelikes:

Nethack/Slashem.

Dungeon Crawl SS.

Cataclysm DDA.

Game pack: BSD games.

4x strategy/tactics:

VMS-Empire.

Note that VMS-Empire has a Unix port since forever.

Weird strategy/sim:

Liberal Crime Squad.

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