Original question by @[email protected]
I’ve played A dark room, and Zork. I’m looking something more like the first one, text-based but able to push some buttons to do things rater than do everything with commands. I’ve thinking in Dwarf Fortress, but it’s too colorish, like Brogue, which I do like a lot.
Do anyone have some recommendations? Thank you.
Nethack, maybe?
That used to be my slacking off game at my first real job. I’d ssh into my computer at home and sneakily play Nethack whenever I got bored. Either that or browse websites with Links.
This was around 2007 and way outside my comfort zone as far as computers were concerned. I felt like such a hacker at the time :)
I would recommend Universal Paperclips to anyone who enjoyed A Dark Room.
ugh…
man. I spent way way too much time on that cow clicker
I second this. The background and philosophy behind it, the questions you ask yourself, the thinking it makes are really worth.
corruption of championsWoah hey now
Not even gonna mention the sequel?
Honestly, I prefer the original to the sequels.
Not really text-based but https://crawl.develz.org/
This got me through so many shifts working in a call center. Could download PuTTY and run it from my user folder without admin permissions and then connect to one of the servers.
Been awhile since I played, but I remember my first ascension was Draconian Skald. I think the rules have changed quite a bit, but I used to love Troll Monk of Cheibriados, too. Stoneskin + Stoneform and a shield of reflection absolutely WRECKED the Elven Halls. For every step I’d take the elves would get like 4-5 turns and fire off a volley of arrows. I’d take practically no damage and a large portion of them would get reflected back and kill the elves themselves. Literally just waltzing through the place. Slow is life.
Transmuter used to be a lot of fun, too, but they changed it significantly over the years. I remember playing as a Felid one time and I died while in spider form. Because Felids get several lives, I reincarnated on the same level, ran back to my corpse and condensed it into a poison potion to chuck back at enemies.
I find it to be one of the simpler roguelikes to learn, but it takes awhile to master and there are some very cool interactions once you get the vibe.
MUD’s are poised to make a comeback.
As an aside, how is your thumbnail animated? First I’ve seen that.
It’s a GIF. You can try it.
bitburner!
(a programming-based incremental RPG where you write JavaScript scripts to automate gameplay, hack servers, learn skills, and progress in a cyberpunk world. free on steam or in your browser)
Good game
you could explore yourworldoftext its basically an infinite multiplayer word processor, where anyone can put down text anywhere and edit it.
im not gonna spoil too much as that would ruin the fun, but i will say the rabbit hole goes deep.
useful tip: click menu > show coordinates.
It’s cool place but doesn’t have moderation so there is a lot NSFW stuff there.
true. though i will say its much less extreme/chaotic the farther you go out. still probably probably not great for work given the fact that anyone can edit.
Nethack is a command line classic
ifdb.org is good for this! i’d recommend Counterfeit Monkey or Lost Pig.
Colossal Cave Adventure
Hunt the Wumpus
any MUD
Dunnet is a good hour-long game. Comes with emacs.
Dwarf fortress classic
keep hearing about this game, what makes it so special?
It’s depth is absolutely outrageous, I would recommend the recent 4 part documentary about the making of.
Or Caves of Qud for a more adventure based game (I know DF has an adventure mode but goddamn is Caves of Qud good).
Frogcomposband is my favourite Angband varient. There’s a huge amount of classes to pick from, towns with quests and once you get a hang of it, most of the interactions can be done by the number pad.
