awesome-ttygames
Unix ASCII games
Unix ASCII games
Feel free to submit pull requests to add new games and improve information about those already in the database.
How to contribute
Check games.yaml out. All information is inside, and you should more or less
understand what’s going on by reading it. Sorting is alphabetical.
Simplest way to contribute: edit games.yaml, and then your changes will be submitted as a pull request.
Use this template:
- name: hangman
url: https://man.openbsd.org/hangman.6
info: computer version of the game hangman
screencast:
play:
name: Name of the gameurl: URL of main pageinfo: free text with game descriptionscreencast: link to screencast (for example on asciinema)play: server hostname where game is available via telnet or ssh
License
To the extent possible under law, Sergey Bronnikov has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
0verkill
is bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game.
Website: https://github.com/hackndev/0verkill
2048
is a clone of 2048 game.
Website: https://github.com/mevdschee/2048.c
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
2048-cli
is a clone of 2048 game.
Website: https://github.com/Tiehuis/2048-cli
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
2048-SSH
is a clone of 2048 game.
Website: https://git.causal.agency/play
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
Play: ssh play@ascii.town
n2048
is a clone on the highly addictive sliding puzzle 2048. Slide the tiles together to combine them, until you reach the highest one.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/n2048
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
ASCII patrol
is a clone of “Moon Patrol” game.
Website: http://ascii-patrol.com/
Play: http://ascii-patrol.com/area51/ascii-patrol-html5.html
aburatan
is a roguelike game of Cowboy Knights and Lurking Horror.
Website: http://aburatan.sourceforge.net/
ad astra
is a turn-based space strategy game.
Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ad-astra-game/
adom
is a roguelike game ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery).
Website: https://www.adom.de/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Domains_of_Mystery
adventure
is an exploration game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/adventure.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
Play: https://grack.com/demos/adventure/
alienrl
is a tactical roguelike game, inspired by the “Aliens” movie.
Website: https://alien.chaosforge.org/
alienwave
is a clone of Space Invaders game.
Website: https://www.alessandropira.org/alienwave/aw.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders
allureofthestars
is a roguelike and tactical squad combat game.
Website: http://www.allureofthestars.com/
Play: http://www.allureofthestars.com/play
angband
is a single-player dungeon exploration game.
Website: https://rephial.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
anonymine
is a clone of Minesweeper game solvable without guessing, and the only with von Neumann neighbourhoods.
Website: https://oskog97.com/projects/anonymine/
Play: ssh play@anonymine-demo.oskog97.com -p 2222; Password is "play"
aop
Ambassador of Pain (aop). A very nice and challenging arcade game.
Website: https://raffi.at/view/code/aop
Apple Trek
is a clone of Star Trek game.
Website: http://peyre.x10.mx/GWBASIC/index.htm#AppleTrek
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Trek
arkanoid-bash
is a clone of arcade game Arkanoid.
Website: https://github.com/bolknote/shellgames/blob/master/arcanoid.sh
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid
arkanoid.py
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written in Python.
Website: https://blog.yjl.im/2015/12/arkanoid-example-from-pygamii-ascii.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid
arkanoid-sed
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written in Sed.
Website: http://sed.sourceforge.net/local/games/arkanoid.sed.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid
arithmetic
Quiz on simple arithmetic. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/arithmetic.6
asciijump
The ski-jumping ASCII game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/asciijump
ASCIIpOrtal
ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game.
Website: https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal
ASCII-Chess
Chess program with AI having a vintage linux terminal interface.
Website: https://github.com/Parigyan/ASCII-Chess
asciisector
Free space combat/exploration/trading game.
Website: http://www.asciisector.net/
astwar
Astwar is a ncurses based game that features two little ships on each side of the screen shooting each other.
Website: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/astwar
atc
Air traffic controller game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/atc.6
avanor
Rogue-like game with easy ADOM-like user interface.
Website: http://avanor.sourceforge.net/
awkaster
Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique
Website: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster
backgammon
A backgammon game; you can play against the computer. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/backgammon.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon
bashmaze
A maze game written completely in shell-script.
Website: https://github.com/phoemur/bashmaze
bastet
Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris).
Website: http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
battleships
Uses character-cell graphics with a visual point-and-shoot interface.
Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)
battlestar
A tropical adventure game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/battlestar.6
bcd
Punched card. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/bcd.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
beasts
The game Beasts is a Linux version of the old DOS game called Beast.
Website: https://peteg.org/beasts/beasts.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_(video_game)
Behacked
Matching game with the goal of getting a group of four connected gems, written with ncurses.
Website: https://github.com/Pentachoron-Labs/Behacked
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejeweled
beyond the tesseract
A highly conceptual game in which you interact with abstract concepts and mathematical entities as if they were tangible.
Website: https://www.wurb.com/if.php/game/211
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
blocks
A block-based puzzle game.
bluemoon
The Blue Moon card solitaire.
Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/bluemoon/
bj
a black-jack card game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
BootMine
Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector.
Website: https://github.com/io12/BootMine
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
BootRogue
is a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes).
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/bootRogue
boggle
Word search game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/boggle.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
bombardier
Clone of the old Blitz16 game on Commodore 16/Plus 4.
Website: https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/i386/games/bombardier
boulder dash
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
bowling
Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library.
Website: https://github.com/haliphax/pybowl
braincurses
A nice version of the mastermind game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/braincurses/
Bricks
A game of bricks and paddle on one boot sector (510 bytes).
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/bricks
Bricks
Port of the Bricks boot sector game to (16-bit) C.
Website: https://github.com/jaens/bricks-cport
brogue
Brogue is a Roguelike game.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
bs
Battleships game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/bs.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29
caesar
decrypt caesar cyphers
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/caesar.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher
canfield
The solitaire card game canfield. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/canfield.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_%28solitaire%29
Caribbean Stud
a multi-player card game, written by Hero
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
cataclysm
is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20190209031801/http://en.cataclysmdda.com/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead
cavez of phear
is a boulder dash / digger like game.
Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20140627005101/http://www.x86.no/cavezofphear/
cbattleship
is a clone of the classic Battleship game.
Website: https://github.com/gnomengineer/cBattleship
cblocks
is a set of sliding-block puzzles.
Website: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html
checkers
is a two-player board game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
chess
is a chess game implemented in sed utility.
Website: https://github.com/bolknote/SedChess
conix
is a clone of Xonix game.
Website: https://bitbucket.org/garnold/conix/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix
gnuchess
is a chess-playing program.
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/
Play: telnet freechess.org 5000 (login guest)
chs
is a chess game against the Stockfish engine.
Website: https://github.com/nickzuber/chs
chimaera
is a highly unusual “infinite” adventure game.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
chroma
is a challenging puzzle game.
Website: http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/
Play: http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/chroma.html
ckhet
is a clone of Khet laser board game.
Website: https://mbays.freeshell.org/ckhet/
Play: ssh ckhet@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: ckhet
clines
is a clone of Color Lines game.
Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20190327173340/http://manticore.2y.net/prj/clines-a.html
Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Lines
clines
is a clone of Color Lines game.
Website: https://github.com/veselov/clines
Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Lines
cmines
is a clone of Minesweeper game.
Website: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
cnibbles
is a clone of Nibbles game with good and smooth animations.
Website: http://cnibbles.sourceforge.net
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)
Connect Four
is a two-player slot game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
connect4
is a clone of Connect4 game.
Website: https://github.com/badescunicu/connect4
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four
beejjorgensen-conquest
is a clone of the old Amiga Conquest text-based game.
Website: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/conquest
jtrulson-conquest
is a real-time, multi-player space warfare game.
Website: https://github.com/jtrulson/conquest/
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
gnu-conquest
is a multiplayer galactic game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-conquest/
corewar
is a programming game in which two or more battle programs (called “warriors”) compete for control of a virtual computer.
Website: http://www.corewar.info/
cpat
is a card game; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games.
Website: http://cpat.sourceforge.net/
crawl
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.
Website: https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/
cribbage
is a card game cribbage. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/cribbage.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage
cryptrover
Escape From The Crypt.
Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/cryptrover/
csol
is a small collection of solitaire/patience games (Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Yukon, etc.).
Website: https://github.com/nielssp/csol
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire
ctris
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://github.com/dominikhackl/ctris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
cursedmate
is a game with a hacking atmosphere.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130804035452/http://www.uberwall.org/~dash/
curse-of-war
is a fast-paced action strategy game.
Website: https://a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwar/
ascii-dash
is a famous Boulder Dash game for the Atari 800 from 1984.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ascii-dash/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Dash
dab
is a Dots and Boxes game.
Website: https://man.netbsd.org/dab.6
dango
is a tui Go (baduk) board written in python
Website: https://github.com/gsobell/dango
decwars
is a multiplayer clone of Star Trek game.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29
Play: telnet decwars.com 1701
diablorl
is a roguelike “unmake” of the popular Blizzard game Diablo.
Website: https://diablo.chaosforge.org/
dMagnetic
is a number of games (The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves, Jinxter, Fish!, Myth, Corruption and Wonderland).
Website: https://www.dettus.net/dMagnetic
doomrl
is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular FPS game Doom by ID Software.
Website: https://drl.chaosforge.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRL_(video_game)
dopewars
is a clone of Drug Wars game about trading drugs.
Website: https://dopewars.sourceforge.io/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game)
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
dsol
is a solitaire card game.
Website: https://feld.me/pub/vga_cardgames-1.3.1.tgz
duel commander
is a turn based command line fighting game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/duelcommander/
dukedomrb
Yet another port of the classic mainframe game from 1976
Website: https://github.com/infews/dukedomrb
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukedom_(video_game)
dungeon crawl
is a text-based roguelike game.
Website: http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/
dwarf fortress
is a single-player fantasy game.
Website: https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
emacs
it is not a game, but text editor with a bunch of text games like chess, sokoban, pong etc.
Website: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGames
encircled
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Encircled
enigma
is a puzzle game where items have to be collected in the right order.
Website: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/enigma/
eyangband
is a clone of Angband.
Website: http://eyangband.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
elite
Website: https://www.bbcelite.com/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
factor
is a factor a number, generate primes.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/factor.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization
fbird
is a text bootsector game.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/fbird
Fifteen Puzzle
is a sliding puzzle that consists of a frame of numbered square tiles in random order with one tile missing.
Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#FIFTEEN
fish
is a traditional children’s card game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/fish.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Fish
fiTD
A basic console-based tower defense game/engine.
Website: https://github.com/odditica/fiTD
FloodIt
Simple game in terminal to flood a grid of colours to one colour.
Website: https://github.com/smmspiers/FloodIt
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Colors
flying-robots
is based on the BSD robots game, but with a third dimension of movement.
Website: https://github.com/bunburya/flying-robots
fortune
print a random, hopefully interesting, adage.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/fortune.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29
freecell
is a clone of the popular and addictive solitaire game.
Website: https://www.linusakesson.net/software/freecell.php
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
freecell-ng
Fork with improvements over ncurses freecell implementation by Linus Akesson (solver support, better metamoves, various usability improvements).
Website: https://github.com/ostrosablin/freecell
freesweep
is a clone of Minesweeper game.
Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/freesweep/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
freesweep-rwestlund
is a clone of Minesweeper game.
Website: https://github.com/rwestlund/freesweep
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
fkmines
is a clone of Minesweeper game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fkmines/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
frozen depths
is a roguelike game with an entertaining atmosphere.
Website: https://frozendepths.net/
frotz
is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games.
Website: https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/
ft_retro
is a shooting game.
Website: https://gitlab.com/Heagan/ft_retro
galaxis
Find the lost lifeboats from an interstellar liner.
Website: http://www.catb.org/esr/galaxis/
gameroom
11 arcade games
Play: ssh gameroom@bitreich.org
gearhead
is the first roguelike to explore the world of “mechas” (giant robots).
Website: http://www.gearheadrpg.com/
ascii-snake
is a clone of a Snake game.
Website: https://github.com/cyphar/ascii-snake
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
gnugo
is the game of Go.
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
gnuski
is a clone of Skifree, the old Windows game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuski/
goblinhack
is a roguelike OpenGL-based smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics game.
Website: https://github.com/goblinhack/goblinhack
gomoku
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.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/gomoku.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku
gopnik2
«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.
Website: https://github.com/bolknote/gopnik2
gorched
is a a clone of “Scorched Earth” game.
Website: https://github.com/zladovan/gorched
gpcslots2
is a casino game with 5 slot machines, 3 roulette tables including russian roulette, 2 dice games, a bank and stock market.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpcslots2/
grdc
is a grand digital clock.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/grdc.6
greed
is a puzzle game with numbers. You must remove as many numbers as you can according to the rules.
Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/greed/
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
hack
is an Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/hack.6
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
hack of life
is a roguelike game based on Conway’s Game of Life.
Website: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=HackOfLife
halls of mist
is a roguelike game, clone of Angband game.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20170530185753/http://www.mikkolehtinen.net/mist/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
hamurabi
is a 1969 text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games.
Website: https://github.com/blt/hamurabi
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi
hammurabi
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!
Website: https://github.com/wzhishen/hammurabi
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi
hangman
is a computer version of the game hangman. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/hangman.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game)
hellband
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.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/hellband
hinversi
is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hinversi/
Horserace
is a very simple horserace simulation.
Website: https://pastebin.com/3KvCBg57
hrd
the puzzle game of HuaRongDao
hunt
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.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/hunt.6
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
hunt-ng
is a fork of BSD hunt with colour and realtime processing.
Website: http://mbays.sdf.org/hunt-ng/
Play: ssh hunt@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: kalte
hydra slayer
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hydra/
imperium
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.
Website: https://empiredirectory.net/
Infinite Cave Adventure
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.dungeon.name
Play: telnet dungeon.name 20028
intricacy
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.
Website: http://mbays.sdf.org/intricacy/
Play: ssh intricacy@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: intricacy
Invaders
is a clone of Space Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector).
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/invaders
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders
just-asteroids
is a clone of Asteroids game.
Website: https://github.com/gabrielvictorcf/just-asteroids
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game)
ascii-invaders
is a clone of Space Invaders game.
Website: https://github.com/macdice/ascii-invaders
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
ninvaders
is a clone of Space Invaders game.
Website: http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
lagrogue
is a roguelike game in which your commands are enacted after a few turns’ delay.
Website: http://mbays.sdf.org/lagrogue/
Play: ssh lagrogue@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: lag
larn
Exploring the caverns of Larn. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.netbsd.org/larn.6
Legend of the Red Dragon
is a text-based online role-playing game.
Website: http://lord.lordlegacy.com/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon
Play: telnet darkrealms.ca
LeTrain
An ascii railroad simulator in Java
Website: https://github.com/antoniovazquezaraujo/LeTrain
lights
is a boot sector game.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/lights
Lunar Landing
The game where your mission is to safely maneuver your lunar module onto the moon’s surface.
Website: https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/LunarLander.html
Play: https://lunar69.uber.space/
landing-rust
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.
Website: https://github.com/sergev/landing-rust
katamascii
is a puzzle game, roll around your terminal collecting ASCII-art objects.
Website: https://github.com/taviso/katamascii
keeperrl
Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike elements.
Website: https://keeperrl.com/
LeTrain
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.
Website: https://github.com/antoniovazquezaraujo/LeTrain
Let it Ride
is a multi-player card game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
lexter
is a real-time word puzzle. Arrange the falling letters into words to score points.
Website: https://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/lexter.php
liberal crime squad
is a game where you have to fight with your friends against conservative laws.
Website: http://lcs.wikidot.com/start
Mafia-Werewolf
OpenMafia/Werewolf Multiplayer social game with AI to fill in the rest!
Website: https://github.com/servusDei2018/Mafia-Werewolf
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
Magnetic Scrolls games
Play interactive fiction text adventure games developed by Magnetic Scrolls, including The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves, Jinxter, Curruption, Fish!, Myth, and Wonderland
Website: https://magneticscrolls.net/
Play: ssh -p 8080 -l magnetic magneticscrolls.net
mancala
is a clone of a simple board game called Mancala.
Website: https://shh.thathost.com/pub-unix/#Mancala
mangband
is a multiplayer clone of Angband game.
Website: https://www.mangband.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
manhunt
Play: telnet on twenex.org
memwatch
memwatch contains an easter egg - a game with a pinguin that jumps between holes in a pipelines.
Website: https://github.com/0x501D/memwatch
vim-mario
is a clone of Super Mario game inside Vim (text editor).
Website: https://github.com/rbtnn/vim-mario
Dr. Mario
is a clone of Nintendo’s Dr. Mario.
Website: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/sunsite.unc.edu/Nov-06-1994/games/dr_mario.tar.Z
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Mario
mastermind-nc
is a clone of the Mastermind game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mastermind-nc/
matanza
is a space war game.
mgt
Go is an ancient oriental strategy game based on the capturing of territory.
mille
is a racing card game based on the Parker Brothers game Mille Bornes. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/mille.6
minecurses
is a clone of Minesweeper game but instead of having to uncover all non-mine cells, the player has to defuse all the mines.
Website: https://github.com/christosmarg/minecurses
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
minesVIiper
is a clone of Minesweeper game with extensive vi(1) keybindings (not just hjkl), mouse control.
Website: https://gir.st/mines.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
miscom
is a game where you must defend cities from missile attack. It’s essentially a clone of Atari’s “Missile Command”.
Website: ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/sbosrcarch/by-name/games/miscom/miscom.tar.gz
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command
monop
is a Monopoly game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/monop.6
monousa
A sort of monopoly game. At least two players are needed.
Website: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/multiplayer/monoUSA2.0.tgz
moo
Moo (a.k.a. Mastermind) supervisor and a very powerful Moo player.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
moon-buggy
is a game where you drive some kind of car across the moon’s surface.
Website: https://www.seehuhn.de/pages/moon-buggy
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
moria
is a game where the goal is to kill off the balrog.
Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20190731112356/http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~grabine/moria.html
morpion solitaire
A morpion solitaire game implementation in C using ncurses.
Website: https://github.com/gre/morpion-solitaire
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_five
msnake
is a clone of Snake game.
Website: https://github.com/mogria/msnake
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
microsnake
is a clone of Snake game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/micro-snake
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
mtrek
is a game inspired by Star Trek.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29
Play: telnet mtrek.com 170
mutant aliens
Mutant Aliens! sees a spaceship ‘dock safely’ into the forest of a hostile alien world.
Website: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Mutant_Aliens!
myman
is a game in the genre of Namco’s Pac-Man.
Website: https://myman.sourceforge.io/
nbsdgames
New BSD Games is a package of 18 text-based modern games.
Website: https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames
nclife
is a Conway’s Game of Life.
Website: https://github.com/mikepierce/ncLife
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
nethack
is a single player dungeon exploration game.
Website: https://www.nethack.org/
Play: telnet on nethack.alt.org
netris
is a networked version of t*tris.
Website: https://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/netris-0.52.tar.gz
go-netris
is a clone of Tetris game featuring competitive online multiplayer.
Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20200112024309/https://git.sr.ht/~tslocum/netris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
Play: ssh netris.rocketnine.space
c-netris
is a clone of Tetris game featuring competitive online multiplayer.
Website: https://github.com/naclander/netris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
nettoe
is a clone of Tic Tac Toe game.
Website: http://nettoe.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
nibbles
is a remake of the classic Snake/Nibbles game.
Website: https://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/nibbles.html
nim
is a mathematical game of strategy.
Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#NIM
nlarn
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.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/nlarn
npush
is a logic game similar to Sokoban and Boulder Dash.
Website: http://npush.sourceforge.net/
nsnake
is a clone of Snake game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnake/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
nsudoku
is a clone of Sudoku game.
Website: https://www.tbmatuka.com/nsudoku/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
nsuds
is a clone of Sudoku game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsuds/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
nudoku
is a clone of Sudoku game.
Website: https://jubalh.github.io/nudoku/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
nuzzle
is a puzzle game collection (N-curses p-UZZLE).
Website: https://github.com/dead-end/nuzzle
lightcycle
a classic Tron game, for your terminal.
Website: https://github.com/gsobell/lightcycle
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(video_game)#Gameplay
okiworld
is a host-to-host strategy game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/okiworld
oldrunner
is a remake of Broderbund’s Loderunner.
Website: http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html
omega
is a rogue-style game of dungeon exploration.
Website: http://www.alcyone.com/max/projects/omega/
Open Adventure
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.
Website: https://gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure
Oregon-Trail
Recreation of the Oregon Trail game, written in Python.
Website: https://github.com/yudonglin/Oregon-Trail
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game)
othello
is a two-player board game.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130607084226/http://david.weekly.org/othello/index.php3
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
ox3d
is an aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
pacman
is a clone of Pacman game.
Website: http://slaout.linux62.org/pacman/index.html
Play: https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man
pacman
is a clone of Pacman game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/asciipacman/
pacman
is a clone of Pacman.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/doctormike/pacman.html
pacman
is a clone of Pacman game.
Website: http://antimirov.net/it/pacman/
Play: ssh pacman:pacman@antimirov.net
PAG
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.
Website: https://pkgsrc.se/games/pag & http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/minix/distfiles/local/3.3.0/pag-0.92.tar.gz
Petals Around The Rose
is a dice-based puzzle game.
Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#PETALS
petris
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://packages.debian.org/sid/games/petris
phantasia
is a interterminal fantasy game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/phantasia.6
pillman
is a clone of Pacman game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file).
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/pillman
Ping-Pong-like
is game in Assembly that works without OS.
Website: https://github.com/tsoding/pinpog
pinochle
is a three-player card game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
piskworks
is a clone of Gomoku game.
Website: https://github.com/berk76/piskworks
piu-piu-SH
is an old school horizontal scroller ‘Shoot Them All’ game.
Website: https://github.com/vaniacer/piu-piu-SH
plonx
is a small puzzle game.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20080704073046/http://bilious.homelinux.org/~paxed/plonx/
Poker
is a multi-player five-card draw.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
pong
is an old and very poor version of the old pong game.
Website: ftp://80.92.105.240/ftp.ibiblio.org/ibiblio_linux_archive/games/arcade/gnupong-0.14.tar.gz
portile
is a 2D, tile-based take on narbacular drop.
Website: https://www.increpare.com/2008/11/portile/
Proxima 5
A curses-style space shooter written in Go, using the Tcell package.
Website: https://github.com/gdamore/proxima5
Puyo on Vim
is a clone of Puyo Puyo game, inside Vim.
Website: https://github.com/rbtnn/vim-puyo
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyo_Puyo_(video_game)
puzzl
is an intelligent version of the sliding-puzzle game.
Website: https://github.com/pravj/puzzl
Scrabble
is a two-to-four-player board game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Sgt. Major
is a four-player card game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
shogi
is a Japanese chess.
Website: http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/gnushogi/gnushogi.html
sshtron
is a multiplayer lightcycle game.
Website: http://sshtron.zachlatta.com/
Play: ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com
Starlanes
A game of interstellar commerce for 1 to 4 players, written with ncurses.
Website: 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
pyro
is a rogue-like game.
Website: http://pyrogue.sourceforge.net/
pythrees
is a clone of Threes! game.
Website: https://github.com/yth/pythrees
pytris
is a two-player networked console Tetris clone.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/pytris
Quacky
is a Perquackey-type word game.
Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#QKY
reversi
is a clone of Othello (Reversi) game.
rhex
is a hexagonal map rogue-like.
Website: https://github.com/dpc/rhex
Play: ssh rhex:rhex123@rhex.dpc.pw
robots
is a game with fight off villainous robots. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/robots.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_%28BSD_game%29
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
gnu-robots
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.
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/readme.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_%28BSD_game%29
robotfindskitten
Yet another zen simulation.
Website: http://robotfindskitten.org/
rogue
Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.netbsd.org/rogue.6
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
roguelike gallery
A living museum of roguelike games
Website: https://rlgallery.org
Play: ssh rodney@rlgallery.org - password is yendor
the rougelike!
is a roguelike game.
Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm
rr
is a russian roulette.
Website: https://oskog97.com/archive/awesome-ttygames/rr/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette
rummy
is clone the card game Rummy with competitive Computer Agent.
Website: https://github.com/ljc2154/Rummy
sail
is a multi-user wooden ships and iron men. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/sail.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Ships_and_Iron_Men
scrap
is an easy to play roguelike game.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130524032130/http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~mommen/scrap/
scroll
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.
Website: https://joeyh.name/code/scroll/
seabattle
is a clone of the classical battleships game.
Website: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/seabattle.html
seatris
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/seatris.html
the sewer massacre
is a roguelike game.
Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/sewers.htm
shell-tanks
is a tank game with randomly generated terrain in which the object is to destroy your opponent.
Website: https://github.com/annacrombie/shell-tanks
shellshock
is a top-down space shooter.
Website: https://dhampir.no/stuff/bash/shellshock
shogi
is a computer program that plays the game of Shogi, also known as Japanese Chess.
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/
sil
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/
simulchess
is a simultaneous-move chess.
Website: https://mbays.freeshell.org/simulchess/
Play: ssh simulchess@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: simulchess
singleplayer pong
is a dockerized pong for one.
Website: https://github.com/Birkenstab/SSH-Pong
Play: ssh pong.brk.st
ski
is a hotdogging game, evade the deadly Yeti on your jet-powered skis.
Website: http://catb.org/~esr/ski/
slashem
is a clone of the roguelike Nethack game.
Website: http://slashem.sourceforge.net/
slashem.me
Variant of nethack and others
Play: ssh slashem@slashem.me
slider
is a slider game.
Website: ftp://80.92.105.240/ftp.ibiblio.org/ibiblio_linux_archive/games/strategy/slider-1.0.c.gz
BootSlide
is a clone of the slider puzzle game in a boot sector.
Website: https://github.com/XlogicX/BootSlide
snake
is a turn-based survival game; you have to move without being caught by a snake. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/snake.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
snake
is a clone of Snake game.
Website: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/snake.c.gz
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
snake
is a clone of Snake game.
Website: https://github.com/begoon/stuff/blob/master/games/snake/c%2B%2B/snake.cpp
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
asm_snake
is a clone of Snake game written in x86 assembly. It runs in real mode directly from the bootsector of a drive.
Website: https://gitlab.com/pmikkelsen/asm_snake
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
soccer
is a tool for investigating how groups of simple agents interact while playing a soccer-like game.
Website: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~trb/soccer/
sokoban
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.
Website: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/download/pusher.tar.gz
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
sokoban
is a clone of Sokoban game.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
sokoban-bootsector
is a clone of Sokoban game in a boot sector.
Website: https://ish.works/bootsector/bootsector.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
solVItaire
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.
Website: https://gir.st/sol.html
spacezero
is a real time strategy 2D space combat game for two players over a network.
Website: http://spacezero.sourceforge.net/
sporkhack
is a clone of Nethack game.
Website: https://github.com/NHTangles/sporkhack
sqlite-hangman
is a clone of Hangman game implemented as an extension for SQLite database.
Website: https://github.com/mateusza/sqlite-hangman
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game)
sst2k
is a clone of Super Star Trek game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sst2k/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29
stardork
is a maze game.
Website: http://stardork.sourceforge.net/
starlanes
is a game of interstellar commerce for 1 to 4 players.
Website: http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/game/starlanes.html
startrek
is a clone of Star Trek game.
Website: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/download/add/TREK.tgz
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29
steamband
is a roguelike dungeon exploration simulation game.
Website: http://angband.oook.cz/steamband/steamband.html
sumeria
This is the good old “Govern Ancient Sumeria”, with a 1983 ecology re-write.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
sunfish
is a chess engine in 111 lines of code.
Website: https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish
taipan
is a modern version of Art Canfil’s classic, Taipan. Sail the South Pacific and accumulate wealth while avoiding pirates.
Website: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/textrpg
telnet-games
Several arcade games.
Website: https://github.com/Milek7/telnet-games
Play: telnet milek7.gq 23
terminal-frogger
is a frogger-themed game.
Website: https://github.com/mfey619/Terminal-Frogger
terminal_gem_match
A simple match 3 game in the terminal, using the ncurses library.
Website: https://github.com/ATBennett/terminal_gem_match
terminal-phase
is a space shooter game.
Website: https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/terminal-phase
tinytetris
is a 80x23 terminal tetris
Website: https://github.com/taylorconor/tinytetris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
tetris
is a clone of Tetris game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/tetris.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
tetranglix
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/tetranglix
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
berk76-tetris
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://github.com/berk76/tetris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
ascii-tetris
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://github.com/Gregwar/ASCII-Tetris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
tetrix
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tetrix
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
tint
is a clone of Tetris game (Tint Is Not Tetris).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
TinyCols
is a clone of the Columns game.
Website: https://github.com/zedr/tinycols
threes
is a clone of Threes! game.
Website: https://github.com/harshjv/threes-c
tictactoe
is a clone of Tic Tac Toe game.
Website: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/tictac2-0.6.tgz
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
tictac4
is a clone of Tic Tac Toe game where you have to align four symbols (instead of three).
Website: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/tictac4-1.0.tar.gz
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
Toledo-Atomchess
is the world’s smallest chess program in x86 assembly code.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/Toledo-Atomchess
Tom Bombem
is an arcade game where you have to shoot on inanimate objects.
Website: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/tb1/
tornado
is the clone of a Tornado, C64 game.
Website: https://github.com/kouya/tornado
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_(1993_video_game)
torus
is a variant of the robots game.
Website: ftp://ftp.nvg.org/pub/mirrors/metalab.unc.edu/games/arcade/torus-src.tar.gz
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
tossug-arena
Board-Gamelets Arena for poor AI Players.
Website: https://github.com/tossug/tossug-arena
tower-of-mediocrity
is a tower defense game. Unfortunately, the game is quite easy to win.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20131205100524/http://www.cavein.org/~chris/code/tower/
trek
is a Trekkie game. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/trek.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29
trek73
is an old but rather elaborated game inspired by the Star Trek series.
Website: https://kermitmurray.com/trek73/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29
trog
is a roguelike game with simple commands.
Website: https://github.com/JohnAnthony/TROG
the-slimy-lichmummy
is a difficult roguelike in a traditional style.
Website: http://www.happyponyland.net/the-slimy-lichmummy
tt
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/tt/#gsc.tab=0
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
tty-solitaire
is a clone of Klondike solitaire game.
Website: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
typespeed
Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can.
Website: http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/
tzar
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tzar
udd
A minimally updated version of Chuck Cranor’s UNIX port of the game “dnd”, which was originally released on the PLATO system in 1975.
Website: https://github.com/mtklr/udd
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(1975_video_game)
ularn
is a roguelike game.
Website: https://github.com/joshbressers/ularn
ultrarogue
is a roguelike game.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20180216113810/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/ultrarogue-1-07/
umoria
is an old and easy to play roguelike game.
Website: http://remarque.org/~grabiner/moria.html
Unnamed Fiefdom Game
is a text-based MMO about controlling fiefdoms, farming gold, and stealing from your enemies!
Website: https://github.com/Sheeves11/UnnamedFiefdomGame/
unnethack
is a first game in this roundup is UnNetHack, a fork of NetHack, originally based on the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/unnethack/
urban warfare
is a roguelike game written in Lisp.
Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/sewers.htm
vadorz
is a clone of Space Invaders game with simple graphics.
Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/vadorz/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders
vagabondo
Website: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/vagabondo.c.gz
vapors of insanity
is a roguelike game set on a paradise island of Fortarica.
Website: https://www.roguetemple.com/z/vapors/
venzone
is a platform/adventure game.
Website: http://ariis.it/static/articles/venzone/page.html
VIper
is a clone of Snake game with hjkl (vi) and cursor key control.
Website: https://gir.st/viper.html
vitetris
is a clone of Tetris. Gameplay is much like the early Tetris games by Nintendo.
Website: http://victornils.net/tetris/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
vms-empire
Empire is a simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you.
Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/vms-empire/
wallyplus
is a game for playing Go.
Website: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/wallyplus-0.1.2.tar.gz
Wander
is probably the first computer game that is recognisable as what came to be known as a “text adventure”.
Website: https://github.com/shmup/wander
Play: https://s3.amazonaws.com/wander1974/wander.html
wanderer
is a game similar to Boulderdash, Repton, XOR and others.
Website: https://www.e271.net/~marina/wanderer.html
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
wargames
Would you like to play a game?
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
Wolfentext3D
is a 3-D dungeon crawling game.
Website: https://github.com/AtomicPair/wolfentext3d
worm
is a version of the arcade game Worm (sometimes called snake or nibbles). It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/worm.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
Play: telnet on twenex.org
clidle
is a clone of Wordle, Wordle over SSH.
Website: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/clidle
Play: ssh clidle.ddns.net -p 3000
wordle-cli
is a clone of Wordle.
Website: https://github.com/nimblebun/wordle-cli
wump
in an underground cave. It’s a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/wump.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus
wumpus
is a clone of the very old game called Hunt the Wumpus.
Website: http://www.catb.org/esr/wumpus/
xorcurses
is a puzzle game set inside a series of mazes.
Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20200807032528/http://www.jwm-art.net/dark.php?p=XorCurses
xonitix
is an action-packed game, where you gain points by claiming space on the line while avoiding the moving dots.
Website: https://github.com/garu/Xonitix
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix
yahtzee
is a game where you can play against humans or against the computer.
Website: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/yahtzee-src.tar.Z
yahtzee-color
is a game where you can play against humans or against the computer.
Website: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/colour-yahtzee.tgz
yetris
is a clone of Tetris.
Website: https://alexdantas.github.io/yetris/
yuxtapa
is a multiplayer real-time game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/yuxtapa
zangband
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.zangband.org/
zapm
is a science fiction roguelike game.
Website: http://zapm.org/
Z-Code games
z-code games
Website: http://telehack.com/telehack.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
Play: telnet telehack.com (or http://telehack.com/)
z-day
is an easy to play roguelike game. You have to kill zombies in a supermarket.
Website: http://sheep.art.pl/Z-Day
zis
is a clone of Konquest (a turn based strategy; you send ships from planet to planet to conquer them).
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zis/
znake
is a clone of Snake but with an extraordinary feature.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/znake-ulven/
zombies
is a game in the same style as robots.
Website: http://www.thistledown.com.au/software/
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
zombies
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://distractionandnonsense.com/zombies/
zork
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.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130121064934/http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/games.html
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
zracer
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.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/zracer
ztrack
is a pseudo-3D driving game.
Website: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/arcade/ztrack-1.0.tar.gz
typr
python based typing test game.
Website: https://github.com/DriftingOtter/Typr
zztgo
a port of Adrian Siekierka’s source code reconstruction of ZZT to Go.
Website: https://github.com/benhoyt/zztgo
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT