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is bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game.
Website: https://github.com/hackndev/0verkill
is a clone of 2048 game.
Website: https://github.com/mevdschee/2048.c
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
is a clone of 2048 game.
Website: https://github.com/Tiehuis/2048-cli
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game)
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
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)
is a clone of "Moon Patrol" game.
Website: http://ascii-patrol.com/
Play: http://ascii-patrol.com/area51/ascii-patrol-html5.html
is a roguelike game of Cowboy Knights and Lurking Horror.
Website: http://aburatan.sourceforge.net/
is a turn-based space strategy game.
Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ad-astra-game/
is a roguelike game ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery).
Website: https://www.adom.de/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Domains_of_Mystery
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/
is a tactical roguelike game, inspired by the "Aliens" movie.
Website: https://alien.chaosforge.org/
is a clone of Space Invaders game.
Website: https://www.alessandropira.org/alienwave/aw.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders
is a roguelike and tactical squad combat game.
Website: http://www.allureofthestars.com/
Play: http://www.allureofthestars.com/play
is a single-player dungeon exploration game.
Website: https://rephial.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
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"
Ambassador of Pain (aop). A very nice and challenging arcade game.
Website: https://raffi.at/view/code/aop
is a clone of Star Trek game.
Website: http://peyre.x10.mx/GWBASIC/index.htm#AppleTrek
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Trek
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 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 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
Quiz on simple arithmetic. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/arithmetic.6
The ski-jumping ASCII game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/asciijump
ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game.
Website: https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal
Chess program with AI having a vintage linux terminal interface.
Website: https://github.com/Parigyan/ASCII-Chess
Free space combat/exploration/trading game.
Website: http://www.asciisector.net/
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
Air traffic controller game. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/atc.6
Rogue-like game with easy ADOM-like user interface.
Website: http://avanor.sourceforge.net/
Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique
Website: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster
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
A maze game written completely in shell-script.
Website: https://github.com/phoemur/bashmaze
Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris).
Website: http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
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)
A tropical adventure game. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/battlestar.6
Punched card. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/bcd.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
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)
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
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
A block-based puzzle game.
The Blue Moon card solitaire.
Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/bluemoon/
a black-jack card game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector.
Website: https://github.com/io12/BootMine
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
is a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes).
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/bootRogue
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
Clone of the old Blitz16 game on Commodore 16/Plus 4.
Website: https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/i386/games/bombardier
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
Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library.
Website: https://github.com/haliphax/pybowl
A nice version of the mastermind game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/braincurses/
A game of bricks and paddle on one boot sector (510 bytes).
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/bricks
Port of the Bricks boot sector game to (16-bit) C.
Website: https://github.com/jaens/bricks-cport
Brogue is a Roguelike game.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
Battleships game. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/bs.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29
decrypt caesar cyphers
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/caesar.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher
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
a multi-player card game, written by Hero
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
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
is a boulder dash / digger like game.
Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20140627005101/http://www.x86.no/cavezofphear/
is a clone of the classic Battleship game.
Website: https://github.com/gnomengineer/cBattleship
is a set of sliding-block puzzles.
Website: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html
is a two-player board game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
is a chess game implemented in sed utility.
Website: https://github.com/bolknote/SedChess
is a clone of Xonix game.
Website: https://bitbucket.org/garnold/conix/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix
is a chess-playing program.
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/
Play: telnet freechess.org 5000 (login guest)
is a chess game against the Stockfish engine.
Website: https://github.com/nickzuber/chs
is a highly unusual "infinite" adventure game.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
is a challenging puzzle game.
Website: http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/
Play: http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/chroma.html
is a clone of Khet laser board game.
Website: https://mbays.freeshell.org/ckhet/
Play: ssh ckhet@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: ckhet
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
is a clone of Color Lines game.
Website: https://github.com/veselov/clines
Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Lines
is a clone of Minesweeper game.
Website: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
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)
is a two-player slot game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
is a clone of Connect4 game.
Website: https://github.com/badescunicu/connect4
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four
is a clone of the old Amiga Conquest text-based game.
Website: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/conquest
is a real-time, multi-player space warfare game.
Website: https://github.com/jtrulson/conquest/
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
is a multiplayer galactic game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-conquest/
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/
is a card game; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games.
Website: http://cpat.sourceforge.net/
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/
is a card game cribbage. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/cribbage.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage
Escape From The Crypt.
Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/cryptrover/
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
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://github.com/dominikhackl/ctris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
is a game with a hacking atmosphere.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130804035452/http://www.uberwall.org/~dash/
is a fast-paced action strategy game.
Website: https://a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwar/
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
is a Dots and Boxes game.
Website: https://man.netbsd.org/dab.6
is a tui Go (baduk) board written in python
Website: https://github.com/gsobell/dango
is a multiplayer clone of Star Trek game.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29
Play: telnet decwars.com 1701
is a roguelike "unmake" of the popular Blizzard game Diablo.
Website: https://diablo.chaosforge.org/
is a number of games (The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves, Jinxter, Fish!, Myth, Corruption and Wonderland).
Website: https://www.dettus.net/dMagnetic
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)
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
is a solitaire card game.
Website: https://feld.me/pub/vga_cardgames-1.3.1.tgz
is a turn based command line fighting game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/duelcommander/
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)
is a text-based roguelike game.
Website: http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/
is a single-player fantasy game.
Website: https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
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
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Encircled
is a puzzle game where items have to be collected in the right order.
Website: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/enigma/
is a clone of Angband.
Website: http://eyangband.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
Website: https://www.bbcelite.com/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
is a factor a number, generate primes.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/factor.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization
is a text bootsector game.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/fbird
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
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
A basic console-based tower defense game/engine.
Website: https://github.com/odditica/fiTD
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
is based on the BSD robots game, but with a third dimension of movement.
Website: https://github.com/bunburya/flying-robots
print a random, hopefully interesting, adage.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/fortune.6
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29
is a clone of the popular and addictive solitaire game.
Website: https://www.linusakesson.net/software/freecell.php
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Fork with improvements over ncurses freecell implementation by Linus Akesson (solver support, better metamoves, various usability improvements).
Website: https://github.com/ostrosablin/freecell
is a clone of Minesweeper game.
Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/freesweep/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
is a clone of Minesweeper game.
Website: https://github.com/rwestlund/freesweep
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
is a clone of Minesweeper game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fkmines/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game)
is a roguelike game with an entertaining atmosphere.
Website: https://frozendepths.net/
is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games.
Website: https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/
is a shooting game.
Website: https://gitlab.com/Heagan/ft_retro
Find the lost lifeboats from an interstellar liner.
Website: http://www.catb.org/esr/galaxis/
11 arcade games
Play: ssh gameroom@bitreich.org
is the first roguelike to explore the world of “mechas” (giant robots).
Website: http://www.gearheadrpg.com/
is a clone of a Snake game.
Website: https://github.com/cyphar/ascii-snake
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
is the game of Go.
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
is a clone of Skifree, the old Windows game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuski/
is a roguelike OpenGL-based smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics game.
Website: https://github.com/goblinhack/goblinhack
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
«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
is a a clone of "Scorched Earth" game.
Website: https://github.com/zladovan/gorched
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/
is a grand digital clock.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/grdc.6
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
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
is a roguelike game based on Conway’s Game of Life.
Website: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=HackOfLife
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)
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
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
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)
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
is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hinversi/
is a very simple horserace simulation.
Website: https://pastebin.com/3KvCBg57
the puzzle game of HuaRongDao
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
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
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hydra/
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/
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.dungeon.name
Play: telnet dungeon.name 20028
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
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
is a clone of Asteroids game.
Website: https://github.com/gabrielvictorcf/just-asteroids
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game)
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
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
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
Exploring the caverns of Larn. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.netbsd.org/larn.6
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
An ascii railroad simulator in Java
Website: https://github.com/antoniovazquezaraujo/LeTrain
is a boot sector game.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/lights
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/
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
is a puzzle game, roll around your terminal collecting ASCII-art objects.
Website: https://github.com/taviso/katamascii
Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike elements.
Website: https://keeperrl.com/
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
is a multi-player card game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
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
is a game where you have to fight with your friends against conservative laws.
Website: http://lcs.wikidot.com/start
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)
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
is a clone of a simple board game called Mancala.
Website: https://shh.thathost.com/pub-unix/#Mancala
is a multiplayer clone of Angband game.
Website: https://www.mangband.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
Play: telnet on twenex.org
memwatch contains an easter egg - a game with a pinguin that jumps between holes in a pipelines.
Website: https://github.com/0x501D/memwatch
is a clone of Super Mario game inside Vim (text editor).
Website: https://github.com/rbtnn/vim-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
is a clone of the Mastermind game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mastermind-nc/
is a space war game.
Go is an ancient oriental strategy game based on the capturing of territory.
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
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)
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)
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
is a Monopoly game. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/monop.6
A sort of monopoly game. At least two players are needed.
Website: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/multiplayer/monoUSA2.0.tgz
Moo (a.k.a. Mastermind) supervisor and a very powerful Moo player.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
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
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
A morpion solitaire game implementation in C using ncurses.
Website: https://github.com/gre/morpion-solitaire
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_five
is a clone of Snake game.
Website: https://github.com/mogria/msnake
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
is a clone of Snake game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/micro-snake
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
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! sees a spaceship 'dock safely' into the forest of a hostile alien world.
Website: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Mutant_Aliens!
is a game in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man.
Website: https://myman.sourceforge.io/
New BSD Games is a package of 18 text-based modern games.
Website: https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames
is a Conway's Game of Life.
Website: https://github.com/mikepierce/ncLife
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
is a single player dungeon exploration game.
Website: https://www.nethack.org/
Play: telnet on nethack.alt.org
is a networked version of t*tris.
Website: https://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/netris-0.52.tar.gz
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
is a clone of Tetris game featuring competitive online multiplayer.
Website: https://github.com/naclander/netris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
is a clone of Tic Tac Toe game.
Website: http://nettoe.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
is a remake of the classic Snake/Nibbles game.
Website: https://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/nibbles.html
is a mathematical game of strategy.
Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#NIM
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
is a logic game similar to Sokoban and Boulder Dash.
Website: http://npush.sourceforge.net/
is a clone of Snake game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnake/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
is a clone of Sudoku game.
Website: https://www.tbmatuka.com/nsudoku/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
is a clone of Sudoku game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsuds/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
is a clone of Sudoku game.
Website: https://jubalh.github.io/nudoku/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
is a puzzle game collection (N-curses p-UZZLE).
Website: https://github.com/dead-end/nuzzle
a classic Tron game, for your terminal.
Website: https://github.com/gsobell/lightcycle
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(video_game)#Gameplay
is a host-to-host strategy game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/okiworld
is a remake of Broderbund’s Loderunner.
Website: http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html
is a rogue-style game of dungeon exploration.
Website: http://www.alcyone.com/max/projects/omega/
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
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)
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
is an aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
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
is a clone of Pacman game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/asciipacman/
is a clone of Pacman.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/doctormike/pacman.html
is a clone of Pacman game.
Website: http://antimirov.net/it/pacman/
Play: ssh pacman:pacman@antimirov.net
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
is a dice-based puzzle game.
Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#PETALS
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://packages.debian.org/sid/games/petris
is a interterminal fantasy game. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/phantasia.6
is a clone of Pacman game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file).
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/pillman
is game in Assembly that works without OS.
Website: https://github.com/tsoding/pinpog
is a three-player card game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
is a clone of Gomoku game.
Website: https://github.com/berk76/piskworks
is an old school horizontal scroller 'Shoot Them All' game.
Website: https://github.com/vaniacer/piu-piu-SH
is a small puzzle game.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20080704073046/http://bilious.homelinux.org/~paxed/plonx/
is a multi-player five-card draw.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
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
is a 2D, tile-based take on narbacular drop.
Website: https://www.increpare.com/2008/11/portile/
A curses-style space shooter written in Go, using the Tcell package.
Website: https://github.com/gdamore/proxima5
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)
is an intelligent version of the sliding-puzzle game.
Website: https://github.com/pravj/puzzl
is a two-to-four-player board game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
is a four-player card game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
is a Japanese chess.
Website: http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/gnushogi/gnushogi.html
is a multiplayer lightcycle game.
Website: http://sshtron.zachlatta.com/
Play: ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com
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
is a rogue-like game.
Website: http://pyrogue.sourceforge.net/
is a clone of Threes! game.
Website: https://github.com/yth/pythrees
is a two-player networked console Tetris clone.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/pytris
is a Perquackey-type word game.
Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#QKY
is a clone of Othello (Reversi) game.
is a hexagonal map rogue-like.
Website: https://github.com/dpc/rhex
Play: ssh rhex:rhex123@rhex.dpc.pw
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
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
Yet another zen simulation.
Website: http://robotfindskitten.org/
Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.netbsd.org/rogue.6
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
A living museum of roguelike games
Website: https://rlgallery.org
Play: ssh rodney@rlgallery.org - password is yendor
is a roguelike game.
Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm
is a russian roulette.
Website: https://oskog97.com/archive/awesome-ttygames/rr/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette
is clone the card game Rummy with competitive Computer Agent.
Website: https://github.com/ljc2154/Rummy
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
is an easy to play roguelike game.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130524032130/http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~mommen/scrap/
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/
is a clone of the classical battleships game.
Website: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/seabattle.html
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/seatris.html
is a roguelike game.
Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/sewers.htm
is a tank game with randomly generated terrain in which the object is to destroy your opponent.
Website: https://github.com/annacrombie/shell-tanks
is a top-down space shooter.
Website: https://dhampir.no/stuff/bash/shellshock
is a computer program that plays the game of Shogi, also known as Japanese Chess.
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/
is a simultaneous-move chess.
Website: https://mbays.freeshell.org/simulchess/
Play: ssh simulchess@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: simulchess
is a dockerized pong for one.
Website: https://github.com/Birkenstab/SSH-Pong
Play: ssh pong.brk.st
is a hotdogging game, evade the deadly Yeti on your jet-powered skis.
Website: http://catb.org/~esr/ski/
is a clone of the roguelike Nethack game.
Website: http://slashem.sourceforge.net/
Variant of nethack and others
Play: ssh slashem@slashem.me
is a slider game.
Website: ftp://80.92.105.240/ftp.ibiblio.org/ibiblio_linux_archive/games/strategy/slider-1.0.c.gz
is a clone of the slider puzzle game in a boot sector.
Website: https://github.com/XlogicX/BootSlide
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
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
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)
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)
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/
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
is a clone of Sokoban game.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
is a clone of Sokoban game in a boot sector.
Website: https://ish.works/bootsector/bootsector.html
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
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
is a real time strategy 2D space combat game for two players over a network.
Website: http://spacezero.sourceforge.net/
is a clone of Nethack game.
Website: https://github.com/NHTangles/sporkhack
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)
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
is a maze game.
Website: http://stardork.sourceforge.net/
is a game of interstellar commerce for 1 to 4 players.
Website: http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/game/starlanes.html
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
is a roguelike dungeon exploration simulation game.
Website: http://angband.oook.cz/steamband/steamband.html
This is the good old “Govern Ancient Sumeria”, with a 1983 ecology re-write.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
is a chess engine in 111 lines of code.
Website: https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish
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
Several arcade games.
Website: https://github.com/Milek7/telnet-games
Play: telnet milek7.gq 23
is a frogger-themed game.
Website: https://github.com/mfey619/Terminal-Frogger
A simple match 3 game in the terminal, using the ncurses library.
Website: https://github.com/ATBennett/terminal_gem_match
is a space shooter game.
Website: https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/terminal-phase
is a 80x23 terminal tetris
Website: https://github.com/taylorconor/tinytetris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/tetranglix
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://github.com/berk76/tetris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: https://github.com/Gregwar/ASCII-Tetris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tetrix
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
is a clone of Tetris game (Tint Is Not Tetris).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
is a clone of the Columns game.
Website: https://github.com/zedr/tinycols
is a clone of Threes! game.
Website: https://github.com/harshjv/threes-c
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
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
is the world's smallest chess program in x86 assembly code.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/Toledo-Atomchess
is an arcade game where you have to shoot on inanimate objects.
Website: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/tb1/
is the clone of a Tornado, C64 game.
Website: https://github.com/kouya/tornado
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_(1993_video_game)
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
Board-Gamelets Arena for poor AI Players.
Website: https://github.com/tossug/tossug-arena
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/
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
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
is a roguelike game with simple commands.
Website: https://github.com/JohnAnthony/TROG
is a difficult roguelike in a traditional style.
Website: http://www.happyponyland.net/the-slimy-lichmummy
is a clone of Tetris game.
Website: http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/tt/#gsc.tab=0
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
is a clone of Klondike solitaire game.
Website: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can.
Website: http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tzar
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)
is a roguelike game.
Website: https://github.com/joshbressers/ularn
is a roguelike game.
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20180216113810/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/ultrarogue-1-07/
is an old and easy to play roguelike game.
Website: http://remarque.org/~grabiner/moria.html
is a text-based MMO about controlling fiefdoms, farming gold, and stealing from your enemies!
Website: https://github.com/Sheeves11/UnnamedFiefdomGame/
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/
is a roguelike game written in Lisp.
Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/sewers.htm
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
Website: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/vagabondo.c.gz
is a roguelike game set on a paradise island of Fortarica.
Website: https://www.roguetemple.com/z/vapors/
is a platform/adventure game.
Website: http://ariis.it/static/articles/venzone/page.html
is a clone of Snake game with hjkl (vi) and cursor key control.
Website: https://gir.st/viper.html
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
Empire is a simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you.
Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/vms-empire/
is a game for playing Go.
Website: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/wallyplus-0.1.2.tar.gz
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
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
Would you like to play a game?
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
is a 3-D dungeon crawling game.
Website: https://github.com/AtomicPair/wolfentext3d
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
is a clone of Wordle, Wordle over SSH.
Website: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/clidle
Play: ssh clidle.ddns.net -p 3000
is a clone of Wordle.
Website: https://github.com/nimblebun/wordle-cli
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
is a clone of the very old game called Hunt the Wumpus.
Website: http://www.catb.org/esr/wumpus/
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
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
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
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
is a clone of Tetris.
Website: https://alexdantas.github.io/yetris/
is a multiplayer real-time game.
Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/yuxtapa
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://www.zangband.org/
is a science fiction roguelike game.
Website: http://zapm.org/
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/)
is an easy to play roguelike game. You have to kill zombies in a supermarket.
Website: http://sheep.art.pl/Z-Day
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/
is a clone of Snake but with an extraordinary feature.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/znake-ulven/
is a game in the same style as robots.
Website: http://www.thistledown.com.au/software/
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
is a roguelike game.
Website: http://distractionandnonsense.com/zombies/
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
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
is a pseudo-3D driving game.
Website: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/arcade/ztrack-1.0.tar.gz
python based typing test game.
Website: https://github.com/DriftingOtter/Typr
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
