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The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
Strictly speaking, text-based means employing an encoding system of characters designed to be printable as text data. [1]: 54 As most computers only read binary code, encoding formats are typically written in such, where a bit is the smallest unit of data that has two possible values and each combination of bits represents a byte.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was first among roguelikes in ASCII Dreams' Roguelike of the Year in 2008, in a poll of 371 roguelike players. [3] It later polled second in 2009 (behind DoomRL) [4] and 2010 (behind ToME 4), [5] and third in 2011 (behind ToME 4 and Dungeons of Dredmor). [6] The game is released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. [7]
An ASCII game on today's processors working for fifteen minutes. Every landmark above and below ground is named, thousands of creatures living persistent lives populate the environment, there's a ...
SanctuaryRPG is a turn-based role-playing game, notable for its extensive use of ASCII art. The plot concerns the search for an entity called The Matron within a location known as Westhaven, which contains elements from both fantasy and science-fiction settings. Notably, enemy encounters will include creatures such as slimes, skeletons, and robots.
Video games developed or published by the Japanese publishing company ASCII. Pages in category "ASCII Corporation games" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
The game was developed open-source on GitHub with an own open-source game engine [22] by several The Battle for Wesnoth developers and released in July 2010 for several platforms. The game was for purchase on the MacOS' app store, [ 23 ] [ 24 ] iPhone App Store [ 25 ] and BlackBerry App World [ 26 ] as the game assets were kept proprietary.
Brogue is a free and open-source roguelike computer video game created by Brian Walker. As in its predecessor Rogue, the goal of Brogue is for the player (represented by the character @) to descend to the 26th floor of the Dungeons of Doom, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, and return to the surface. Players also have the option of delving deeper ...