XorCurses is a puzzle game set inside a series of mazes. It is a remake of XOR by Astral Software, a game published in 1987.
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Tag: ASCII game
VMS Empire – ancestor of all expand/explore/exploit/exterminate games
Empire is a simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you.
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Intricacy – game of competitive puzzle-design
Intricacy is an addictive, open source, networked, video puzzle game. It is written in Haskell, using the Curses and SDL libraries.
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Cataclysm DDA – roguelike game
Cataclysm is an open source post-apocalyptic roguelike, set in the countryside of fictional New England after a devastating plague of monsters and zombies.
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Curse of War – fast-paced action strategy game
Curse of War is a fast-paced action open source strategy game for Linux originally implemented using an ncurses user interface.
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Brogue – roguelike game
Brogue is a direct descendant of Rogue, a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980.
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ASCIIpOrtal – text based puzzle game
ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game. In ASCIIpOrtal you overcome challenges by placing portal way-points.
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Angband – ASCII dungeon exploration game
Angband is a free, single-player graphical dungeon exploration game that uses ASCII characters where you take the role of an adventurer, exploring a deep dungeon.
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DoomRL – D**m, the Roguelike
DoomRL (Doom, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular first person shooter game Doom.
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Empire – the pinnacle of strategy games
Empire is a console game simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you.
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Everything is Fodder – Seven Day Roguelike
Everything is Fodder is a fascinating and compelling open source roguelike game. The game was written in a mere 168 hours.
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Hydra Slayer – roguelike game
Hydra Slayer is an open source Roguelike game featuring an original combat system, based on mathematical puzzles.
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Imperium – text-based MMO game
Imperium is an open source game of intergalactic exploration, warfare, and economics. Imperium has no set goal, and fairly flexible rules.
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MyMan – text-mode videogame inspired by Namco’s Pac-Man
MyMan is an open source text-mode videogame inspired by Namco’s Pac-Man. It is an unofficial and unlicensed clone of the original Pac-Man and Puckman games
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NetHack – free Dungeons and Dragons-style adventure game
NetHack is a wonderfully silly, yet quite addictive Dungeons and Dragons-style adventure game. Play a fierce fighter, wizard, or any of many other classes.
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nudoku – sudoku for your terminal
nudoku is an open source ncurses based sudoku game. Perfect to relax a little or just waste some time when you are on the console.
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vitetris – terminal-based Tetris clone
vitetris is an open source terminal-based Tetris clone. vitetris comes with more features and options than might be expected from a simple text mode game.
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