--- - name: 0verkill info: is bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game. url: https://github.com/hackndev/0verkill screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486195 - name: "2048" url: https://github.com/mevdschee/2048.c info: is a clone of 2048 game. # shot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mevdschee/2048.c/main/screenshot.png screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486174 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game) - name: 2048-cli url: https://github.com/Tiehuis/2048-cli info: is a clone of 2048 game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34067 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game) - name: 2048-SSH url: https://git.causal.agency/play info: is a clone of 2048 game. play: ssh play@ascii.town wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game) - name: n2048 url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/n2048 info: | is a clone on the highly addictive sliding puzzle 2048. Slide the tiles together to combine them, until you reach the highest one. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/35973 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game) - name: ASCII patrol url: http://ascii-patrol.com/ info: is a clone of "Moon Patrol" game. play: http://ascii-patrol.com/area51/ascii-patrol-html5.html # shot: http://ascii-patrol.com/ascii-patrol.gif # screenshots http://ascii-patrol.com/gallery.html - name: aburatan url: http://aburatan.sourceforge.net/ info: is a roguelike game of Cowboy Knights and Lurking Horror. - name: ad astra url: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ad-astra-game/ info: is a turn-based space strategy game. - name: adom url: https://www.adom.de/ info: is a roguelike game ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery). wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Domains_of_Mystery # shot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/6/69/Adom_big.gif # ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/download/add/adventur.tgz - name: adventure url: https://man.openbsd.org/adventure.6 info: is an exploration game. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure play: https://grack.com/demos/adventure/ - name: alienrl url: https://alien.chaosforge.org/ info: is a tactical roguelike game, inspired by the "Aliens" movie. - name: alienwave url: https://www.alessandropira.org/alienwave/aw.html info: is a clone of Space Invaders game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486887 - name: allureofthestars url: http://www.allureofthestars.com/ info: is a roguelike and tactical squad combat game. screencast: http://www.allureofthestars.com/play - name: angband url: https://rephial.org/ info: is a single-player dungeon exploration game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game) # shot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Angband.png - name: anonymine url: https://oskog97.com/projects/anonymine/ info: | is a clone of Minesweeper game solvable without guessing, and the only with von Neumann neighbourhoods. play: ssh play@anonymine-demo.oskog97.com -p 2222; Password is "play" screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/511454 - name: aop url: https://raffi.at/view/code/aop info: Ambassador of Pain (aop). A very nice and challenging arcade game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34678 - name: Apple Trek url: http://peyre.x10.mx/GWBASIC/index.htm#AppleTrek wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Trek info: is a clone of Star Trek game. - name: arkanoid-bash url: https://github.com/bolknote/shellgames/blob/master/arcanoid.sh info: is a clone of arcade game Arkanoid. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/36415 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid - name: arkanoid.py url: https://blog.yjl.im/2015/12/arkanoid-example-from-pygamii-ascii.html info: | Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written in Python. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid - name: arkanoid-sed url: http://sed.sourceforge.net/local/games/arkanoid.sed.html info: | Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written in Sed. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid - name: arithmetic url: https://man.openbsd.org/arithmetic.6 info: Quiz on simple arithmetic. It's a BSD game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486298 - name: asciijump url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/asciijump info: The ski-jumping ASCII game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/31340 - name: ASCIIpOrtal url: https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal info: | ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game. - name: ASCII-Chess url: https://github.com/Parigyan/ASCII-Chess info: | Chess program with AI having a vintage linux terminal interface. - name: asciisector url: http://www.asciisector.net/ info: Free space combat/exploration/trading game. - name: astwar url: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/astwar info: | Astwar is a ncurses based game that features two little ships on each side of the screen shooting each other. - name: atc url: https://man.openbsd.org/atc.6 info: Air traffic controller game. It's a BSD game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486304 - name: avanor url: http://avanor.sourceforge.net/ info: Rogue-like game with easy ADOM-like user interface. - name: awkaster url: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster info: | Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique - name: backgammon url: https://man.openbsd.org/backgammon.6 info: | A backgammon game; you can play against the computer. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon - name: bashmaze url: https://github.com/phoemur/bashmaze info: A maze game written completely in shell-script. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486297 - name: bastet url: http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html info: Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris). screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486931 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - name: battleships url: http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ info: | Uses character-cell graphics with a visual point-and-shoot interface. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game) screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486229 - name: battlestar url: https://man.openbsd.org/battlestar.6 info: A tropical adventure game. It's a BSD game. - name: bcd url: https://man.openbsd.org/bcd.6 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card info: Punched card. It's a BSD game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486305 - name: beasts url: https://peteg.org/beasts/beasts.html info: | The game Beasts is a Linux version of the old DOS game called Beast. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_(video_game) - name: Behacked url: https://github.com/Pentachoron-Labs/Behacked info: | Matching game with the goal of getting a group of four connected gems, written with ncurses. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejeweled - name: beyond the tesseract url: https://www.wurb.com/if.php/game/211 info: | A highly conceptual game in which you interact with abstract concepts and mathematical entities as if they were tangible. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: blocks info: A block-based puzzle game. - name: bluemoon url: http://www.catb.org/~esr/bluemoon/ info: The Blue Moon card solitaire. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486306 - name: bj info: a black-jack card game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org # play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: BootMine url: https://github.com/io12/BootMine info: Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) # shot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/io12/BootMine/master/demo.gif - name: BootRogue url: https://github.com/nanochess/bootRogue info: is a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes). screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487008 - name: boggle url: https://man.openbsd.org/boggle.6 info: Word search game. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: bombardier url: https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/i386/games/bombardier info: Clone of the old Blitz16 game on Commodore 16/Plus 4. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486231 # See comments above Cavez of Phear - name: boulder dash info: | A Boulder Dash game clone for your favorite terminal. You are trapped in the CAVEZ of PHEAR, your mission is to escape through all the caves and make it out alive. To escape through a cave you will have to find all the diamonds located in it. Once you've found all the diamonds, their powers combined will help you get to the next cave, one step closer to freedom. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Dash - name: bowling url: https://github.com/haliphax/pybowl info: Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/41475 - name: braincurses url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/braincurses/ info: A nice version of the mastermind game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486307 - name: Bricks url: https://github.com/nanochess/bricks info: A game of bricks and paddle on one boot sector (510 bytes). screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487020 - name: Bricks url: https://github.com/jaens/bricks-cport info: Port of the Bricks boot sector game to (16-bit) C. - name: brogue url: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ info: Brogue is a Roguelike game. - name: bs url: https://man.openbsd.org/bs.6 info: Battleships game. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29 - name: caesar info: decrypt caesar cyphers url: https://man.openbsd.org/caesar.6 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher - name: canfield url: https://man.openbsd.org/canfield.6 info: "The solitaire card game canfield. It's a BSD game." wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_%28solitaire%29 - name: Caribbean Stud info: a multi-player card game, written by Hero play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: cataclysm url: https://web.archive.org/web/20190209031801/http://en.cataclysmdda.com/ info: is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead # Boulder Dash / Cavez of Phear # URL: # 3 Candidates: # # Title doesn't match: https://github.com/martez81/ascii-dash # # Requires graphics: http://www.bd-fans.com/FreewareUnix.html # # Cavez of Phear # Just a downloads list: https://pkgs.org/download/cavezofphear # Site broken: http://www.x86.no/cavezofphear/ # https://web.archive.org/web/20160523182502/http://www.x86.no/cavezofphear/ - name: cavez of phear url: http://web.archive.org/web/20140627005101/http://www.x86.no/cavezofphear/ info: is a boulder dash / digger like game. - name: cbattleship url: https://github.com/gnomengineer/cBattleship info: is a clone of the classic Battleship game. - name: cblocks url: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html info: is a set of sliding-block puzzles. - name: checkers info: is a two-player board game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: chess url: https://github.com/bolknote/SedChess info: is a chess game implemented in sed utility. - name: conix url: https://bitbucket.org/garnold/conix/ info: is a clone of Xonix game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix - name: gnuchess url: https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/ info: is a chess-playing program. play: telnet freechess.org 5000 (login guest) - name: chs url: https://github.com/nickzuber/chs info: is a chess game against the Stockfish engine. - name: chimaera url: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/ info: is a highly unusual "infinite" adventure game. - name: chroma url: http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/ info: is a challenging puzzle game. play: http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/chroma.html screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486998 - name: ckhet url: https://mbays.freeshell.org/ckhet/ info: is a clone of Khet laser board game. play: "ssh ckhet@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: ckhet" # shot: https://mbays.freeshell.org/ckhet/ckhet.png - name: clines url: http://web.archive.org/web/20190327173340/http://manticore.2y.net/prj/clines-a.html info: is a clone of Color Lines game. wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Lines screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486945 - name: clines url: https://github.com/veselov/clines info: is a clone of Color Lines game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486233 wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Lines - name: cmines url: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html info: is a clone of Minesweeper game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486954 - name: cnibbles url: http://cnibbles.sourceforge.net info: is a clone of Nibbles game with good and smooth animations. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game) screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486713 - name: Connect Four info: is a two-player slot game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: connect4 url: https://github.com/badescunicu/connect4 info: is a clone of Connect4 game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486711 - name: beejjorgensen-conquest url: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/conquest info: is a clone of the old Amiga Conquest text-based game. - name: jtrulson-conquest url: https://github.com/jtrulson/conquest/ info: is a real-time, multi-player space warfare game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: gnu-conquest url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-conquest/ info: is a multiplayer galactic game. - name: corewar url: http://www.corewar.info/ info: | is a programming game in which two or more battle programs (called “warriors”) compete for control of a virtual computer. - name: cpat url: http://cpat.sourceforge.net/ info: is a card game; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487001 - name: crawl url: https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ info: | is a single-player, role-playing roguelike game of exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons filled with dangerous and unfriendly monsters in a quest to rescue the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/524 - name: cribbage url: https://man.openbsd.org/cribbage.6 info: is a card game cribbage. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage - name: cryptrover url: https://code.google.com/archive/p/cryptrover/ info: Escape From The Crypt. - name: csol url: https://github.com/nielssp/csol info: | is a small collection of solitaire/patience games (Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Yukon, etc.). wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486707 - name: ctris url: https://github.com/dominikhackl/ctris info: is a clone of Tetris game. # https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486703 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - name: cursedmate url: https://web.archive.org/web/20130804035452/http://www.uberwall.org/~dash/ info: is a game with a hacking atmosphere. - name: curse-of-war url: https://a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwar/ info: is a fast-paced action strategy game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486446 - name: ascii-dash url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ascii-dash/ info: is a famous Boulder Dash game for the Atari 800 from 1984. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486442 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Dash - name: dab url: https://man.netbsd.org/dab.6 info: is a Dots and Boxes game. - name: dango url: https://github.com/gsobell/dango info: is a tui Go (baduk) board written in python - name: decwars info: is a multiplayer clone of Star Trek game. play: telnet decwars.com 1701 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29 - name: diablorl url: https://diablo.chaosforge.org/ info: is a roguelike "unmake" of the popular Blizzard game Diablo. - name: dMagnetic url: https://www.dettus.net/dMagnetic info: | is a number of games (The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves, Jinxter, Fish!, Myth, Corruption and Wonderland). screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/281636 - name: doomrl url: https://drl.chaosforge.org/ info: | is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular FPS game Doom by ID Software. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRL_(video_game) - name: dopewars url: https://dopewars.sourceforge.io/ info: is a clone of Drug Wars game about trading drugs. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game) - name: dsol url: https://feld.me/pub/vga_cardgames-1.3.1.tgz info: is a solitaire card game. - name: duel commander url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/duelcommander/ info: is a turn based command line fighting game. - name: dukedomrb url: https://github.com/infews/dukedomrb info: Yet another port of the classic mainframe game from 1976 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukedom_(video_game) - name: dungeon crawl url: http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/ info: is a text-based roguelike game. - name: dwarf fortress url: https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ info: is a single-player fantasy game. - name: emacs url: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGames info: | it is not a game, but text editor with a bunch of text games like chess, sokoban, pong etc. - name: encircled url: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Encircled info: is a roguelike game. - name: enigma url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/enigma/ info: is a puzzle game where items have to be collected in the right order. - name: eyangband url: http://eyangband.sourceforge.net/ info: is a clone of Angband. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game) - name: elite url: https://www.bbcelite.com/ wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game) - name: factor url: https://man.openbsd.org/factor.6 info: is a factor a number, generate primes. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization - name: fbird url: https://github.com/nanochess/fbird info: is a text bootsector game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487025 - name: Fifteen Puzzle url: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#FIFTEEN info: | is a sliding puzzle that consists of a frame of numbered square tiles in random order with one tile missing. - name: fish url: https://man.openbsd.org/fish.6 info: is a traditional children's card game. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Fish - name: fiTD url: https://github.com/odditica/fiTD info: A basic console-based tower defense game/engine. - name: FloodIt url: https://github.com/smmspiers/FloodIt info: Simple game in terminal to flood a grid of colours to one colour. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Colors - name: flying-robots url: https://github.com/bunburya/flying-robots info: is based on the BSD robots game, but with a third dimension of movement. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486448 - name: fortune wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29 info: print a random, hopefully interesting, adage. url: https://man.openbsd.org/fortune.6 - name: freecell url: https://www.linusakesson.net/software/freecell.php info: is a clone of the popular and addictive solitaire game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: freecell-ng url: https://github.com/ostrosablin/freecell info: | Fork with improvements over ncurses freecell implementation by Linus Akesson (solver support, better metamoves, various usability improvements). - name: freesweep url: https://code.google.com/archive/p/freesweep/ info: is a clone of Minesweeper game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486999 - name: freesweep-rwestlund url: https://github.com/rwestlund/freesweep info: is a clone of Minesweeper game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) - name: fkmines url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fkmines/ info: is a clone of Minesweeper game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486970 - name: frozen depths url: https://frozendepths.net/ info: is a roguelike game with an entertaining atmosphere. - name: frotz url: https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/ info: is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/372170 - name: ft_retro url: https://gitlab.com/Heagan/ft_retro info: is a shooting game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487578 # shot: https://gitlab.com/Heagan/ft_retro/-/raw/master/p_retro.png - name: galaxis url: http://www.catb.org/esr/galaxis/ info: Find the lost lifeboats from an interstellar liner. - name: gameroom info: 11 arcade games play: ssh gameroom@bitreich.org - name: gearhead url: http://www.gearheadrpg.com/ info: is the first roguelike to explore the world of “mechas” (giant robots). - name: ascii-snake info: is a clone of a Snake game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) url: https://github.com/cyphar/ascii-snake screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487004 - name: gnugo url: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/ info: is the game of Go. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486319 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) - name: gnuski url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuski/ info: is a clone of Skifree, the old Windows game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485510 - name: goblinhack url: https://github.com/goblinhack/goblinhack info: is a roguelike OpenGL-based smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics game. - name: gomoku url: https://man.openbsd.org/gomoku.6 info: | is a game where the object is to get 5 in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally on a 19 by 19 grid. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486510 - name: gopnik2 url: https://github.com/bolknote/gopnik2 info: | «Гопник-2» - это продолжение культовой текстовой игры «Гопник», жанр которой наиболее близок к жанру Hack and Slash RPG. Во второй части полностью сохранена изначальная концепция, улучшен алгоритм генерирования противников в соответствии с текущим состоянием главного героя, выровнен баланс прохождения и прокачки, добавлено три уровня сложности. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/631712 - name: gorched url: https://github.com/zladovan/gorched info: is a a clone of "Scorched Earth" game. - name: gpcslots2 url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpcslots2/ info: | is a casino game with 5 slot machines, 3 roulette tables including russian roulette, 2 dice games, a bank and stock market. - name: grdc url: https://man.openbsd.org/grdc.6 info: is a grand digital clock. - name: greed url: http://www.catb.org/~esr/greed/ info: | is a puzzle game with numbers. You must remove as many numbers as you can according to the rules. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486320 - name: hack url: https://man.openbsd.org/hack.6 info: is an Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: hack of life url: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=HackOfLife info: is a roguelike game based on Conway’s Game of Life. - name: halls of mist url: https://web.archive.org/web/20170530185753/http://www.mikkolehtinen.net/mist/ info: is a roguelike game, clone of Angband game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game) - name: hamurabi url: https://github.com/blt/hamurabi info: | is a 1969 text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi - name: hammurabi url: https://github.com/wzhishen/hammurabi info: | is a very old computer game, in which you are the ruler of ancient Samaria, trying to increase the wealth of your country. Here is the 21st century version of it, which is implemented in Python! wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi - name: hangman url: https://man.openbsd.org/hangman.6 info: is a computer version of the game hangman. It's a BSD game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/35801 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game) - name: hellband url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/hellband info: | is a rogue-like game in which you descend through the nine circles of Hell and find an even more dangerous Hell beyond the city of Dis. - name: hinversi url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hinversi/ info: is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486222 - name: Horserace url: https://pastebin.com/3KvCBg57 info: is a very simple horserace simulation. - name: hrd info: the puzzle game of HuaRongDao - name: hunt url: https://man.openbsd.org/hunt.6 info: | The object of the game hunt is to kill off the other players. There are no rooms, no treasures, and no monsters. Instead, you wander around a maze, find grenades, trip mines, and shoot down walls and players. It's a BSD game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: hunt-ng url: http://mbays.sdf.org/hunt-ng/ info: is a fork of BSD hunt with colour and realtime processing. play: "ssh hunt@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: kalte" - name: hydra slayer url: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hydra/ info: is a roguelike game. - name: imperium url: https://empiredirectory.net/ info: | is a game of intergalactic exploration, warfare, and economics. Imperium has no set goal, and fairly flexible rules about what you can do, thus, while a single player could run their own game just for the fun of exploration, they would be missing out on most of the aspects of the game with no one to compete against. - name: Infinite Cave Adventure url: http://www.dungeon.name info: is a roguelike game. play: telnet dungeon.name 20028 - name: intricacy url: http://mbays.sdf.org/intricacy/ info: | is game of competitive puzzle-design. At its core, this is an abstract turn-based puzzle game in which you pick a lock by co-ordinating a pair of tools to manipulate its mechanism. The locks you pick are designed by other players; once you have figured out the secret of how to pick a lock, you must secure that secret behind a lock of your own devising. play: "ssh intricacy@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: intricacy" - name: Invaders url: https://github.com/nanochess/invaders info: is a clone of Space Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector). screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC976eejfms wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders # shot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nanochess/Invaders/master/invaders.png - name: just-asteroids url: https://github.com/gabrielvictorcf/just-asteroids info: is a clone of Asteroids game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game) - name: ascii-invaders url: https://github.com/macdice/ascii-invaders info: is a clone of Space Invaders game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34018 play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders - name: ninvaders url: http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/ info: is a clone of Space Invaders game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders - name: lagrogue url: http://mbays.sdf.org/lagrogue/ info: | is a roguelike game in which your commands are enacted after a few turns' delay. play: "ssh lagrogue@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: lag" - name: larn url: https://man.netbsd.org/larn.6 info: Exploring the caverns of Larn. It's a BSD game. - name: Legend of the Red Dragon url: http://lord.lordlegacy.com/ info: is a text-based online role-playing game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon play: telnet darkrealms.ca - name: LeTrain url: https://github.com/antoniovazquezaraujo/LeTrain info: An ascii railroad simulator in Java screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/8E4ZEyw26SgdgGZoCrxS2CW2J - name: lights url: https://github.com/nanochess/lights info: is a boot sector game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487018 - name: Lunar Landing url: https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/LunarLander.html info: | The game where your mission is to safely maneuver your lunar module onto the moon's surface. play: https://lunar69.uber.space/ screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/605229 - name: landing-rust url: https://github.com/sergev/landing-rust info: | The game where your mission is to safely maneuver your lunar module onto the moon's surface. This is a port to BESM-6, rewritten from Pascal into C++ into Rust module onto the moon's surface. - name: katamascii url: https://github.com/taviso/katamascii info: | is a puzzle game, roll around your terminal collecting ASCII-art objects. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486171 # shot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taviso/katamascii/main/screenshot.png - name: keeperrl url: https://keeperrl.com/ info: Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike elements. - name: LeTrain url: https://github.com/antoniovazquezaraujo/LeTrain info: | a train simulator consisting of creating tracks and stations along a virtually infinite map, and creating trains and earning money by carrying passengers between them. - name: Let it Ride info: is a multi-player card game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: lexter url: https://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/lexter.php info: | is a real-time word puzzle. Arrange the falling letters into words to score points. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/35970 - name: liberal crime squad url: http://lcs.wikidot.com/start info: | is a game where you have to fight with your friends against conservative laws. - name: Mafia-Werewolf url: https://github.com/servusDei2018/Mafia-Werewolf info: OpenMafia/Werewolf Multiplayer social game with AI to fill in the rest! wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game) - name: Magnetic Scrolls games url: https://magneticscrolls.net/ info: | Play interactive fiction text adventure games developed by Magnetic Scrolls, including The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves, Jinxter, Curruption, Fish!, Myth, and Wonderland play: ssh -p 8080 -l magnetic magneticscrolls.net - name: mancala url: https://shh.thathost.com/pub-unix/#Mancala info: is a clone of a simple board game called Mancala. - name: mangband url: https://www.mangband.org/ info: is a multiplayer clone of Angband game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game) - name: manhunt play: telnet on twenex.org - name: memwatch info: | memwatch contains an easter egg - a game with a pinguin that jumps between holes in a pipelines. url: https://github.com/0x501D/memwatch screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486217 - name: vim-mario url: https://github.com/rbtnn/vim-mario info: is a clone of Super Mario game inside Vim (text editor). - name: Dr. Mario url: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/sunsite.unc.edu/Nov-06-1994/games/dr_mario.tar.Z info: is a clone of Nintendo’s Dr. Mario. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Mario - name: mastermind-nc url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mastermind-nc/ info: is a clone of the Mastermind game. - name: matanza info: is a space war game. - name: mgt info: | Go is an ancient oriental strategy game based on the capturing of territory. - name: mille url: https://man.openbsd.org/mille.6 info: | is a racing card game based on the Parker Brothers game Mille Bornes. It's a BSD game. - name: minecurses url: https://github.com/christosmarg/minecurses info: | is a clone of Minesweeper game but instead of having to uncover all non-mine cells, the player has to defuse all the mines. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) - name: minesVIiper url: https://gir.st/mines.html info: | is a clone of Minesweeper game with extensive vi(1) keybindings (not just hjkl), mouse control. # displays broken due to https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues/34 screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486236 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) - name: miscom url: ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/sbosrcarch/by-name/games/miscom/miscom.tar.gz info: | is a game where you must defend cities from missile attack. It’s essentially a clone of Atari’s "Missile Command". wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command - name: monop url: https://man.openbsd.org/monop.6 info: is a Monopoly game. It's a BSD game. - name: monousa url: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/multiplayer/monoUSA2.0.tgz info: A sort of monopoly game. At least two players are needed. - name: moo url: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/ info: Moo (a.k.a. Mastermind) supervisor and a very powerful Moo player. - name: moon-buggy url: https://www.seehuhn.de/pages/moon-buggy info: is a game where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34071 play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: moria url: http://web.archive.org/web/20190731112356/http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~grabine/moria.html info: is a game where the goal is to kill off the balrog. - name: morpion solitaire url: https://github.com/gre/morpion-solitaire info: A morpion solitaire game implementation in C using ncurses. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_five - name: msnake url: https://github.com/mogria/msnake info: is a clone of Snake game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/35971 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) - name: microsnake url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/micro-snake info: is a clone of Snake game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) - name: mtrek info: is a game inspired by Star Trek. play: telnet mtrek.com 170 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29 - name: mutant aliens url: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Mutant_Aliens! info: | Mutant Aliens! sees a spaceship 'dock safely' into the forest of a hostile alien world. - name: myman url: https://myman.sourceforge.io/ info: is a game in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487037 - name: nbsdgames url: https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames info: New BSD Games is a package of 18 text-based modern games. - name: nclife url: https://github.com/mikepierce/ncLife info: is a Conway's Game of Life. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486901 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life - name: nethack url: https://www.nethack.org/ info: is a single player dungeon exploration game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34687 play: telnet on nethack.alt.org - name: netris url: https://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/netris-0.52.tar.gz info: is a networked version of t*tris. - name: go-netris url: http://web.archive.org/web/20200112024309/https://git.sr.ht/~tslocum/netris info: is a clone of Tetris game featuring competitive online multiplayer. play: ssh netris.rocketnine.space wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - name: c-netris url: https://github.com/naclander/netris info: is a clone of Tetris game featuring competitive online multiplayer. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486899 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - name: nettoe url: http://nettoe.sourceforge.net/ info: is a clone of Tic Tac Toe game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/35969 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe - name: nibbles url: https://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/nibbles.html info: is a remake of the classic Snake/Nibbles game. - name: nim url: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#NIM info: is a mathematical game of strategy. - name: nlarn url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/nlarn info: | is an enhanced and improved rewrite of the historic roguelike game Larn. It tries to maintain the atmosphere and story of the last version of Larn (12.3) while improving gameplay and the user experience. - name: npush url: http://npush.sourceforge.net/ info: is a logic game similar to Sokoban and Boulder Dash. - name: nsnake url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnake/ info: is a clone of Snake game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/35976 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) - name: nsudoku url: https://www.tbmatuka.com/nsudoku/ info: is a clone of Sudoku game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34688 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku - name: nsuds url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsuds/ info: is a clone of Sudoku game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku - name: nudoku url: https://jubalh.github.io/nudoku/ info: is a clone of Sudoku game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34070 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku - name: nuzzle url: https://github.com/dead-end/nuzzle info: is a puzzle game collection (N-curses p-UZZLE). screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486907 - name: lightcycle url: https://github.com/gsobell/lightcycle info: a classic Tron game, for your terminal. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/597924 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(video_game)#Gameplay - name: okiworld url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/okiworld info: is a host-to-host strategy game. - name: oldrunner url: http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html info: is a remake of Broderbund’s Loderunner. # shot: http://culot.org/images/oldrunner/screen1.jpg # shot: http://culot.org/images/oldrunner/screen2.jpg # shot: http://culot.org/images/oldrunner/screen3.jpg # shot: http://culot.org/images/oldrunner/screen4.jpg - name: omega url: http://www.alcyone.com/max/projects/omega/ info: is a rogue-style game of dungeon exploration. - name: Open Adventure url: https://gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure info: | Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is one of the earliest computer adventure games and a precursor form of role playing video game. The original version was designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky. - name: Oregon-Trail url: https://github.com/yudonglin/Oregon-Trail info: Recreation of the Oregon Trail game, written in Python. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game) - name: othello url: https://web.archive.org/web/20130607084226/http://david.weekly.org/othello/index.php3 info: is a two-player board game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: ox3d url: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/ info: is an aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487029 - name: pacman url: http://slaout.linux62.org/pacman/index.html info: is a clone of Pacman game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34686 play: https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man - name: pacman url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/asciipacman/ info: is a clone of Pacman game. - name: pacman url: https://sites.google.com/site/doctormike/pacman.html info: is a clone of Pacman. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34685 - name: pacman url: http://antimirov.net/it/pacman/ info: is a clone of Pacman game. play: ssh pacman:pacman@antimirov.net - name: PAG url: https://pkgsrc.se/games/pag & http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/minix/distfiles/local/3.3.0/pag-0.92.tar.gz info: | Platform Arcade Game is an ncurses based game that allows you to create your own maps and play with them, including features such as moving-platforms,enemies, rules to open/close doors, and items. - name: Petals Around The Rose url: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#PETALS info: is a dice-based puzzle game. - name: petris url: https://packages.debian.org/sid/games/petris info: is a clone of Tetris game. # https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm - name: phantasia url: https://man.openbsd.org/phantasia.6 info: is a interterminal fantasy game. It's a BSD game. - name: pillman url: https://github.com/nanochess/pillman info: is a clone of Pacman game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file). screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBgsXOq11o # shot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nanochess/Pillman/master/pillman.png - name: pinochle info: is a three-player card game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: piskworks url: https://github.com/berk76/piskworks info: is a clone of Gomoku game. - name: piu-piu-SH url: https://github.com/vaniacer/piu-piu-SH info: is an old school horizontal scroller 'Shoot Them All' game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487583 - name: plonx url: https://web.archive.org/web/20080704073046/http://bilious.homelinux.org/~paxed/plonx/ info: is a small puzzle game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487041 - name: Poker info: is a multi-player five-card draw. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: pong url: ftp://80.92.105.240/ftp.ibiblio.org/ibiblio_linux_archive/games/arcade/gnupong-0.14.tar.gz info: is an old and very poor version of the old pong game. - name: portile url: https://www.increpare.com/2008/11/portile/ info: is a 2D, tile-based take on narbacular drop. - name: Proxima 5 url: https://github.com/gdamore/proxima5 info: A curses-style space shooter written in Go, using the Tcell package. - name: Puyo on Vim url: https://github.com/rbtnn/vim-puyo info: is a clone of Puyo Puyo game, inside Vim. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo_(video_game) - name: puzzl url: https://github.com/pravj/puzzl info: is an intelligent version of the sliding-puzzle game. - name: Scrabble info: is a two-to-four-player board game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: Sgt. Major info: is a four-player card game. play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: shogi url: http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/gnushogi/gnushogi.html info: is a Japanese chess. - name: sshtron url: http://sshtron.zachlatta.com/ info: is a multiplayer lightcycle game. play: ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com - name: Starlanes url: https://web.archive.org/web/20200129140943/http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/game/starlanes.html & https://web.archive.org/web/20150804022307/http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/game/starlanes-1.3.0.tar.gz info: | A game of interstellar commerce for 1 to 4 players, written with ncurses. - name: pyro url: http://pyrogue.sourceforge.net/ info: is a rogue-like game. - name: pythrees url: https://github.com/yth/pythrees info: is a clone of Threes! game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487042 - name: pytris url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/pytris info: is a two-player networked console Tetris clone. - name: Quacky url: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#QKY info: is a Perquackey-type word game. - name: reversi info: is a clone of Othello (Reversi) game. - name: rhex url: https://github.com/dpc/rhex info: is a hexagonal map rogue-like. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34224 play: ssh rhex:rhex123@rhex.dpc.pw - name: robots url: https://man.openbsd.org/robots.6 info: is a game with fight off villainous robots. It's a BSD game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_%28BSD_game%29 screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486323 - name: gnu-robots url: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/readme.html info: | is a game/diversion where you construct a program for a little robot, then watch him explore a world. The world is filled with baddies that can hurt you, objects that you can bump into, and food that you can eat. The goal of the game is to collect as many prizes as possible before are killed by a baddie or you run out of energy. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_%28BSD_game%29 - name: robotfindskitten url: http://robotfindskitten.org/ info: Yet another zen simulation. - name: rogue url: https://man.netbsd.org/rogue.6 info: Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/35802 play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: roguelike gallery url: https://rlgallery.org info: A living museum of roguelike games play: ssh rodney@rlgallery.org - password is yendor - name: the rougelike! url: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm info: is a roguelike game. - name: rr url: https://oskog97.com/archive/awesome-ttygames/rr/ info: is a russian roulette. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette - name: rummy url: https://github.com/ljc2154/Rummy info: is clone the card game Rummy with competitive Computer Agent. - name: sail url: https://man.openbsd.org/sail.6 info: is a multi-user wooden ships and iron men. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Ships_and_Iron_Men screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486324 - name: scrap url: https://web.archive.org/web/20130524032130/http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~mommen/scrap/ info: is an easy to play roguelike game. - name: scroll url: https://joeyh.name/code/scroll/ info: | You're a bookworm that's stuck on a scroll. You have to dodge between words and use spells to make your way down the page as the scroll is read. Go too slow and you'll get wound up in the scroll and crushed. - name: seabattle url: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/seabattle.html info: is a clone of the classical battleships game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34680 - name: seatris url: https://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/seatris.html info: is a clone of Tetris game. # https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm - name: the sewer massacre url: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/sewers.htm info: is a roguelike game. # shot: https://lifp.common-lisp.dev/shot1.png - name: shell-tanks url: https://github.com/annacrombie/shell-tanks info: | is a tank game with randomly generated terrain in which the object is to destroy your opponent. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485506 # shot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/annacrombie/shell-tanks/master/img/title.png - name: shellshock url: https://dhampir.no/stuff/bash/shellshock info: is a top-down space shooter. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485508 - name: shogi url: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/ info: | is a computer program that plays the game of Shogi, also known as Japanese Chess. - name: sil url: http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/ info: is a roguelike game. - name: simulchess url: https://mbays.freeshell.org/simulchess/ info: is a simultaneous-move chess. play: "ssh simulchess@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: simulchess" - name: singleplayer pong url: https://github.com/Birkenstab/SSH-Pong info: is a dockerized pong for one. play: ssh pong.brk.st - name: ski url: http://catb.org/~esr/ski/ info: is a hotdogging game, evade the deadly Yeti on your jet-powered skis. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485509 - name: slashem url: http://slashem.sourceforge.net/ info: is a clone of the roguelike Nethack game. - name: slashem.me info: Variant of nethack and others play: ssh slashem@slashem.me - name: slider url: ftp://80.92.105.240/ftp.ibiblio.org/ibiblio_linux_archive/games/strategy/slider-1.0.c.gz info: is a slider game. - name: BootSlide url: https://github.com/XlogicX/BootSlide info: is a clone of the slider puzzle game in a boot sector. # shot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/XlogicX/BootSlide/master/15slider.png - name: snake url: https://man.openbsd.org/snake.6 info: | is a turn-based survival game; you have to move without being caught by a snake. It's a BSD game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486325 - name: snake url: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/snake.c.gz info: is a clone of Snake game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) - name: snake url: https://github.com/begoon/stuff/blob/master/games/snake/c%2B%2B/snake.cpp info: is a clone of Snake game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/1715 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) - name: asm_snake url: https://gitlab.com/pmikkelsen/asm_snake info: | is a clone of Snake game written in x86 assembly. It runs in real mode directly from the bootsector of a drive. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487046 - name: soccer url: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~trb/soccer/ info: | is a tool for investigating how groups of simple agents interact while playing a soccer-like game. - name: sokoban url: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/download/pusher.tar.gz info: | is a logical game, where you must solve problems with pushing packets in labirints. The problem is to push packets to saving positions by moving around and pushing only one packet at a time if possible. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban - name: sokoban info: is a clone of Sokoban game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban - name: sokoban-bootsector url: https://ish.works/bootsector/bootsector.html info: is a clone of Sokoban game in a boot sector. # play: https://ish.works/bootsector/bootsector.html#play_online # screencast: https://ish.works/bootsector/sokoban_v1.0.gif wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487049 - name: solVItaire url: https://gir.st/sol.html info: | Freecell, Spider Solitare and Klondike Solitaire with extensive vi(1) style keybindings, do-what-I-mean movement operations, beautiful Unicode character schemes. Does not depend on ncurses. # displays slightly broken due to https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues/34 screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486179 # shot: https://gir.st/img/solvitaire-spider.png - name: spacezero url: http://spacezero.sourceforge.net/ info: | is a real time strategy 2D space combat game for two players over a network. - name: sporkhack url: https://github.com/NHTangles/sporkhack info: is a clone of Nethack game. - name: sqlite-hangman url: https://github.com/mateusza/sqlite-hangman info: | is a clone of Hangman game implemented as an extension for SQLite database. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485496 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game) - name: sst2k url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sst2k/ info: is a clone of Super Star Trek game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29 # shot: https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/sst2k/screenshots/sst.png/max/max/1 - name: stardork url: http://stardork.sourceforge.net/ info: is a maze game. - name: starlanes url: http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/game/starlanes.html info: is a game of interstellar commerce for 1 to 4 players. - name: startrek url: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/download/add/TREK.tgz info: is a clone of Star Trek game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29 - name: steamband url: http://angband.oook.cz/steamband/steamband.html info: is a roguelike dungeon exploration simulation game. - name: sumeria url: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/ info: | This is the good old “Govern Ancient Sumeria”, with a 1983 ecology re-write. - name: sunfish url: https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish info: is a chess engine in 111 lines of code. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485498 - name: taipan url: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/textrpg info: | is a modern version of Art Canfil's classic, Taipan. Sail the South Pacific and accumulate wealth while avoiding pirates. - name: telnet-games url: https://github.com/Milek7/telnet-games info: Several arcade games. play: telnet milek7.gq 23 - name: terminal-frogger url: https://github.com/mfey619/Terminal-Frogger info: is a frogger-themed game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487030 - name: terminal_gem_match url: https://github.com/ATBennett/terminal_gem_match info: A simple match 3 game in the terminal, using the ncurses library. - name: terminal-phase url: https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/terminal-phase info: is a space shooter game. # screencast: https://dustycloud.org/gfx/goodies/terminal-phase-parallax-starfield.gif - name: tinytetris url: https://github.com/taylorconor/tinytetris info: is a 80x23 terminal tetris wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485499 # https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm # https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taylorconor/tinytetris/master/animation.gif - name: tetris url: https://man.openbsd.org/tetris.6 info: is a clone of Tetris game. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris # https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486892 - name: tetranglix url: https://github.com/nanochess/tetranglix info: is a clone of Tetris game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris # https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487013 - name: berk76-tetris url: https://github.com/berk76/tetris info: is a clone of Tetris game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485501 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris # https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm - name: ascii-tetris url: https://github.com/Gregwar/ASCII-Tetris info: is a clone of Tetris game. # https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485503 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - name: tetrix url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tetrix info: is a clone of Tetris game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - name: tint info: is a clone of Tetris game (Tint Is Not Tetris). wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486879 - name: TinyCols url: https://github.com/zedr/tinycols info: is a clone of the Columns game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/562766 - name: threes url: https://github.com/harshjv/threes-c info: is a clone of Threes! game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/18135 - name: tictactoe url: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/tictac2-0.6.tgz info: is a clone of Tic Tac Toe game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe - name: tictac4 url: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/tictac4-1.0.tar.gz info: | is a clone of Tic Tac Toe game where you have to align four symbols (instead of three). wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe - name: Toledo-Atomchess url: https://github.com/nanochess/Toledo-Atomchess info: is the world's smallest chess program in x86 assembly code. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/487011 - name: Tom Bombem url: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/tb1/ info: is an arcade game where you have to shoot on inanimate objects. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485505 # screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485504 # shot: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/tb1/tbasm_action.png - name: tornado url: https://github.com/kouya/tornado info: is the clone of a Tornado, C64 game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_(1993_video_game) - name: torus url: ftp://ftp.nvg.org/pub/mirrors/metalab.unc.edu/games/arcade/torus-src.tar.gz info: is a variant of the robots game. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: tossug-arena url: https://github.com/tossug/tossug-arena info: Board-Gamelets Arena for poor AI Players. - name: tower-of-mediocrity url: https://web.archive.org/web/20131205100524/http://www.cavein.org/~chris/code/tower/ info: | is a tower defense game. Unfortunately, the game is quite easy to win. - name: trek url: https://man.openbsd.org/trek.6 info: is a Trekkie game. It's a BSD game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29 - name: trek73 url: https://kermitmurray.com/trek73/ info: is an old but rather elaborated game inspired by the Star Trek series. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29 - name: trog url: https://github.com/JohnAnthony/TROG info: is a roguelike game with simple commands. - name: the-slimy-lichmummy url: http://www.happyponyland.net/the-slimy-lichmummy info: is a difficult roguelike in a traditional style. - name: tt url: http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/tt/#gsc.tab=0 info: is a clone of Tetris game. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - name: tty-solitaire url: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire info: is a clone of Klondike solitaire game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/6519 play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 - name: typespeed url: http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ # https://web.archive.org/web/20100904205305/http://tobias.eyedacor.org/typespeed/ info: Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can. # shot: https://web.archive.org/web/20070720193312if_/http://tobias.eyedacor.org/typespeed/typespeed-large-1.png screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485492 - name: tzar url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tzar info: is a roguelike game. - name: udd url: https://github.com/mtklr/udd info: | A minimally updated version of Chuck Cranor's UNIX port of the game "dnd", which was originally released on the PLATO system in 1975. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(1975_video_game) - name: ularn info: is a roguelike game. url: https://github.com/joshbressers/ularn - name: ultrarogue url: https://web.archive.org/web/20180216113810/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/ultrarogue-1-07/ info: is a roguelike game. - name: umoria url: http://remarque.org/~grabiner/moria.html info: is an old and easy to play roguelike game. - name: Unnamed Fiefdom Game url: https://github.com/Sheeves11/UnnamedFiefdomGame/ info: | is a text-based MMO about controlling fiefdoms, farming gold, and stealing from your enemies! screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486908 - name: unnethack url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unnethack/ info: | is a first game in this roundup is UnNetHack, a fork of NetHack, originally based on the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485489 - name: urban warfare url: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/sewers.htm info: is a roguelike game written in Lisp. - name: vadorz url: https://code.google.com/archive/p/vadorz/ info: is a clone of Space Invaders game with simple graphics. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486872 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders - name: vagabondo url: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/vagabondo.c.gz - name: vapors of insanity url: https://www.roguetemple.com/z/vapors/ info: is a roguelike game set on a paradise island of Fortarica. - name: venzone url: http://ariis.it/static/articles/venzone/page.html info: is a platform/adventure game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486868 - name: VIper url: https://gir.st/viper.html info: is a clone of Snake game with hjkl (vi) and cursor key control. # displays slightly broken due to https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues/34 screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486867 - name: vitetris url: http://victornils.net/tetris/ info: | is a clone of Tetris. Gameplay is much like the early Tetris games by Nintendo. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34069 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris - name: vms-empire url: http://www.catb.org/~esr/vms-empire/ info: | Empire is a simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you. - name: wallyplus url: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/wallyplus-0.1.2.tar.gz info: is a game for playing Go. # https://ahopeful.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/wander-1974-a-lost-mainframe-game-is-found/comment-page-1/ - name: Wander url: https://github.com/shmup/wander info: | is probably the first computer game that is recognisable as what came to be known as a “text adventure”. play: https://s3.amazonaws.com/wander1974/wander.html - name: wanderer url: https://www.e271.net/~marina/wanderer.html info: is a game similar to Boulderdash, Repton, XOR and others. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: wargames wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames info: Would you like to play a game? - name: Wolfentext3D url: https://github.com/AtomicPair/wolfentext3d info: is a 3-D dungeon crawling game. - name: worm url: https://man.openbsd.org/worm.6 info: | is a version of the arcade game Worm (sometimes called snake or nibbles). It's a BSD game. play: telnet on twenex.org wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486326 - name: clidle url: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/clidle info: is a clone of Wordle, Wordle over SSH. play: ssh clidle.ddns.net -p 3000 screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485486 - name: wordle-cli url: https://github.com/nimblebun/wordle-cli info: is a clone of Wordle. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/485484 - name: wump url: https://man.openbsd.org/wump.6 info: in an underground cave. It's a BSD game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/35800 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus - name: wumpus url: http://www.catb.org/esr/wumpus/ info: is a clone of the very old game called Hunt the Wumpus. - name: xorcurses url: http://web.archive.org/web/20200807032528/http://www.jwm-art.net/dark.php?p=XorCurses info: is a puzzle game set inside a series of mazes. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/34065 - name: xonitix url: https://github.com/garu/Xonitix info: | is an action-packed game, where you gain points by claiming space on the line while avoiding the moving dots. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix - name: yahtzee url: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/yahtzee-src.tar.Z info: is a game where you can play against humans or against the computer. - name: yahtzee-color url: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/colour-yahtzee.tgz info: is a game where you can play against humans or against the computer. - name: yetris url: https://alexdantas.github.io/yetris/ info: is a clone of Tetris. - name: yuxtapa url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/yuxtapa info: is a multiplayer real-time game. - name: zangband url: http://www.zangband.org/ info: is a roguelike game. - name: zapm url: http://zapm.org/ info: is a science fiction roguelike game. - name: Z-Code games url: http://telehack.com/telehack.html info: z-code games wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine play: telnet telehack.com (or http://telehack.com/) - name: z-day url: http://sheep.art.pl/Z-Day info: | is an easy to play roguelike game. You have to kill zombies in a supermarket. - name: zis url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zis/ info: | is a clone of Konquest (a turn based strategy; you send ships from planet to planet to conquer them). - name: znake url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/znake-ulven/ info: is a clone of Snake but with an extraordinary feature. - name: zombies url: http://www.thistledown.com.au/software/ info: is a game in the same style as robots. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: zombies url: http://distractionandnonsense.com/zombies/ info: is a roguelike game. - name: zork url: https://web.archive.org/web/20130121064934/http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/games.html info: | The Zork Trilogy is set in the ruins of an ancient empire lying far underground. You, a dauntless treasure-hunter, are venturing into this dangerous land in search of wealth and adventure. Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org - name: zracer url: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/zracer info: | is a console car racing game. The rules are simple - the higher on the screen, the faster you ride. Don't crash into rocks, curbs, or your opponent, and be the first across the finish line. - name: ztrack url: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/arcade/ztrack-1.0.tar.gz info: is a pseudo-3D driving game. screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/486500 - name: typr info: python based typing test game. url: https://github.com/DriftingOtter/Typr screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/617774 - name: zztgo info: a port of Adrian Siekierka’s source code reconstruction of ZZT to Go. url: https://github.com/benhoyt/zztgo wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT