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Especially games that are entirely made up of text. I recently got REALLY INTO a bunch of old command-line games like Zork (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork_I) and Humbug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug_(computer_game)) and I found them to be SUPER COMFORTABLE to play. There's just something about playing a game that is 100% text on a full-screen cli/emulator that puts me in a specific mood... I tried looking up more of these online and I found a list on Wikipedia. However, these are all old computer games, none of them is recent. While I can play most of these older games just fine, I wondered if there were any recent games that could put me in the same mood. I looked up on Steam, itch, Newgrounds, etc. but most games I found just weren't what I was looking for. I found one called "Terminal" (https://pixelvision8.itch.io/terminal ), which was fun (and free) but too short and the story wasn't really my cup of tea, and another one called qeys (https://dta-informaatica.itch.io/qeys ), which was surprisingly addictive and fast paced for a 1€ itch game, even though I was looking for a more adventure oriented game. Do you have any recommendations? I would prefer adventure/RPG games, but any game would do (for as long as I can run/emulate it). They can be old, new, AAA, indie, paid, free, you name it. Edited by burning_ranger98 at 06:16:32 13-04-2021 |
Good command-line/text games?
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Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoThe Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Pawn are about the only ones I've played to any extent. There was one on a space station that I dimly recall as well.
ed: oh, and the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
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burning_ranger98 6 posts
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Registered 5 months agoDirtbox wrote:
I'm not much into LOTR, but I will check them out. Thanks!
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Pawn are about the only ones I've played to any extent. There was one on a space station that I dimly recall as well. -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoThere's thousands here, they're from the golden era of the genre so you should find something you're interested in. Easy to emulate with zxspin or something.
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Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agohuh, and looking a little deeper, there's this, which looks insane. I don't know if it's quite what you're after, but it's quite impressive. https://www.torn.com/ -
neilka 24,021 posts
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Registered 16 years agoHadean Lands and Thaumistry are recent commercial ones that are worth playing. Apart from that there's the IFComp which has dozens of entries each year, the top few games from each year are usually worth a go and can be finished in a couple of hours. -
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Registered 18 years agoIn addition to what the others have said...
Have a look for the Guild of Thieves, Fish, Jinxter and Corruption graphic & text adventure games by Magnetic Scrolls, they're an old PC/Atari/Amiga Graphic & Text adventure dev.
Infocom are another old dev/publisher who are well known for their text adventures like Zork, StarCross.
Speccy had Level 9 who made Snowball and Red Moon and there was Delta 4 who made Big Sleaze, Bored of the Rings and others.
Scott Adams had a bunch of Marvel themed graphic & text adventures back in the day, Hulk, Spiderman etc.
DOS and Apple had the MacVenture series (Shadow Gate etc) and games similar to those like Frederik Pohl's Gateway. Where they have text entry but a GUI for portraits, actions and inventory.
That should give you a good start for the retro stuff anyway.
Remember though that a lot of these games can be complete and utter assholes to you the player. They are classics but they were also damned obtuse at times, make lots of notes and maps. -
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Registered 15 years agoThe Magnetic Scrolls games in an interpreter are available online, such as here:
https://msmemorial.if-legends.org/msalive.php
There is also a Level 9 interpreter available for modern Windows systems, not sure if any websites with games just ready to play. Knight Orc was one I liked from Level 9 as it was a bizarre and weird little game with characters running around the world screaming out what they are doing etc. Also added the very useful "go to" and "run to" commands to go to any place you had seen (or knew about) (later games have this too IIRC)
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Registered 10 years agoI remember I had a He-Man one back in the day. Ludicrously difficult. Me and my brother made absolutely no progress. -
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Registered 5 years agoObligatory drop for A Mind Forever Voyaging. -
Some would argue Pillars of Eternity is a text adventure for all intents and purposes but I digress.
I've read good things about A House Abandon. It's an adventure/thriller game reminiscent of the first adventure games that were still text at heart but also included some rudimentary graphics and sounds.
Apparently it's quite the mind bender and it's only a few years old. -
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Registered 12 years agoMore oldies I'm afraid, but the CRL horror games are all worth a go, if a little unforgiving at times. Dracula was the first game to get a 15 age rating certificate. The rest of the series are Frankenstein, The Wolfman and Jack the Ripper. I'm only familiar with the C64 versions, but both the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC got them too, so you've got a decent choice of formats.
A little bit different, but Personal Nightmare for the Amiga is well worth a look, too. It's a weird hybrid of text-based parser and a clickable, animated graphics window of your surroundings up above. Don't expect to make it through without dying many, many times, though! -
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Registered 7 years agoPlanet of Death was the second game I bought on the spectrum and it was awful.
The problem was that you had to pretty much type in exactly what the creator expected, and if you didn't do that, then you were stuffed. it's easy enough to get some sort of mental block where you just can't figure out what the creator wants you to input.
I'm not sure I ever got past the first prompt.
Found day of the tentacle and monkey island much more fun to play and solve, although they are not of course what you would call command line games. -
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Registered 18 years agoDracula was great, rock hard though -
There's a whole "interactive fiction" (the more contemporary term to this sort of thing ) scene driven by enthusiasts that continued out of the line light for *decades* after text adventures stopped being commercially viable.Public domain software to create them, annual awards nominated by the community. A proper scene.
Probably still is for all I know.
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