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Unix ASCII games
See additional resources about games in console:
- https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/tag/game/
- https://ttygames.wordpress.com/
- https://theouterlinux.gitlab.io/RecommendedSoftware/Linux/Games/RecommendedSoftware_Linux_Games.html
Feel free to submit pull requests to add new games and improve information about those already in the database.
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Check games.yaml
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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: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man6/hangman.6?query=hangman&sec=6&arch=i386
info: computer version of the game hangman
screencast:
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name
: Name of the game -
url
: URL of main page -
info
: free text with game description -
screencast
: 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
0verkill is bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game in ASCII-ART.
2048
This is an ncurses version of the game '2048'.
2048-cli
A cli version of the game 2048 for your Linux terminal.
2048-SSH
2048 over SSH
Play: ssh [email protected]
n2048
n2048 is a console-based game based on the highly addictive sliding puzzle 2048. Slide the tiles together to combine them, until you reach the highest one.
ascii patrol
None
Play: http://ascii-patrol.com/area51/ascii-patrol-html5.html
abura tan
A roguelike game of Cowboy Knights and Lurking Horror.
ad astra
Ad Astra is a turn-based space strategy game written in Python that uses curses for its display.
ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery)
ADOM is a roguelike game.
adventure
An exploration game. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Play: https://grack.com/demos/adventure/
alienrl
AliensRL is a tactical roguelike game, inspired by the "Aliens" movie.
alienwave
another good variant of the space invaders game.
angband
Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game.
Anonymine
A curses mode minesweeper solvable without guessing, and the only with von Neumann neighbourhoods.
Play: ssh [email protected] -p 2222; Password is "play"
aop
Ambassador of Pain (aop). A very nice and challenging arcade game.
Apple Trek
See also Wikipedia.
arkanoid-bash
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written in Bash.
See also Wikipedia.
arkanoid.py
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written in Python.
See also Wikipedia.
arkanoid-sed
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. Written in Sed.
See also Wikipedia.
arithmetic
quiz on simple arithmetic
asciijump
asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.
ascii portal
ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game.
asciisector
asciisector is a free space combat/exploration/trading game.
astwar
Astwar is a ncurses based game that features two little ships on each side of the screen shooting each other.
atc
air traffic controller game. It's a BSD game.
avanor
Rogue-like game with easy ADOM-like user interface.
awkaster
Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique
backgammon
A backgammon game; you can play against the computer. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
bashmaze
A maze game writen completely in shell-script, based on Joe Wingbermuehle's maze generator.
bastet
Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris).
battleships
Uses character-cell graphics with a visual point-and-shoot interface.
battlestar
A tropical adventure game. It's a BSD game.
bcd
punched card
See also Wikipedia.
beasts
The game Beasts is a Linux version of the old DOS game called Beast.
See also Wikipedia.
beyond the tesseract
A highly conceptual game in which you interact with abstract concepts and mathematical entities as if they were tangible.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
blocks
A block-based puzzle game.
bluemoon
The Blue Moon card solitaire.
bj
a black-jack card game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
boggle
Word search game. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
bombardier
This game is the same as the old Blitz16 game on Commodore 16/Plus 4, written by Simon Taylor.
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.
See also Wikipedia.
bowling
Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library.
braincurses
A nice version of the mastermind game.
brogue
Brogue is a Roguelike game.
bs
Battleships game. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
caesar
decrypt caesar cyphers
See also Wikipedia.
canfield
The solitaire card game canfield. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Caribbean Stud
a multi-player card game, written by Hero
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
cataclysm: dark days ahead
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.
cavez of phear
cavez of phear is a boulder dash / digger like game for console using ncurses.
cbattleship
A implementation of the classic Battleship game in C++. Includes a server program, and multiple different client programs. The server program wait's until two client program connected to start a game. The server dictates the rules of the game.
cblocks
a set of sliding-block puzzles.
Checkers
a two-player board game, written by Alexi
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
chess
Chess implemented in sed utility.
gnuchess
GNU Chess is a chess-playing program.
Play: telnet freechess.org 5000 (login guest)
chimaera
A highly unusual "infinite" adventure game written by Chris Newall.
chroma
A challenging puzzle game.
ckhet
Curses implementation of the laser board game Khet.
Play: ssh [email protected]; password: ckhet
clines
Clines is a standard "Lines" game, implemented as a curses application.
clines
Color Lines clone in console.
cmines
minesweeper.
cnibbles
Another Nibbles game with good and smooth animations.
Connect Four
a two-player slot game, written by Sarac
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
connect4
The Connect4 game using ncurses C library.
Conquest
Port of the old Amiga Conquest text-based game
conquest
a real-time, multi-player space warfare game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
gnu-conquest
A multiplayer galactic game.
corewar
Core War is a programming game created by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney in which two or more battle programs (called “warriors”) compete for control of a virtual computer.
cpat
CPat is probably the best card game for the Linux console; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games from the most famous to less known games.
crawl
One of the best games for the Linux console.
cribbage
The card game cribbage. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
cryptrover
Escape From The Crypt.
ctris
Another version of the tetris game.
cursedmate
A game with a hacking atmosphere.
curse-of-war
Curse of War is a fast-paced action strategy game for Linux originally implemented using ncurses user interface.
dab
Dots and Boxes game.
decwars
Multiplayer Star Trek.
Play: telnet decwars.com 1701
diablorl
DiabloRL is a roguelike "unmake" of the popular Blizzard game Diablo.
dMagnetic
A Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter can be used to play "The Pawn", "The Guild of Thieves", "Jinxter", "Fish!", "Myth", "Corruption" and "Wonderland". The beautiful pictures can be rendered in various ways, for example, as ANSI-Art.
doomrl
DoomRL (Doom, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular FPS game Doom by ID Software.
dopewars
A funny game about trading drugs. Dopewars is a free rewrite of a game originally based on Drug Wars by John E. Dell.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
dsol
dSol is a command line solitaire card game.
duel commander
Duel Commander is a turn based command line fighting game for Windows and Unix-like systems.
dungeon crawl
Dungeon Crawl, a text-based roguelike game.
dwarf fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game.
emacs
Actually it is not a game, but text editor. It includes a bunch of text games like chess, sokoban, pong etc.
encircled
Encircled is a roguelike game.
enigma
A puzzle game where items have to be collected in the right order.
eyangband
Another variant of Angband.
elite
See also Wikipedia.
factor
factor a number, generate primes
See also Wikipedia.
fbird Screencast
F-Bird, a text bootsector game
Fifteen Puzzle
A sliding puzzle that consists of a frame of numbered square tiles in random order with one tile missing, written in bash.
fish
Play ``Go Fish''. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
fortune
print a random, hopefully interesting, adage
See also Wikipedia.
freecell
This is a console (ncurses) version of the popular and addictive solitaire game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
freesweep
minesweeper game using curses.
freesweep
Freesweep is a console minesweeper-style game written in C for Unix-like systems.
fkmines
Another minesweeper-style game.
frozen depths
A very nice roguelike game with an entertaining atmosphere.
frotz
Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games.
galaxis
Find the lost lifeboats from an interstellar liner.
gameroom
11 arcade games
Play: ssh [email protected]
gearhead
GearHead is the first roguelike to explore the world of “mechas” (giant robots).
gnake
Another variant of the snake game with a smooth movement.
gnugo
GNU Go is a free program that plays the game of Go.
gnuski
GNUSki is an open source clone of Skifree, the old Windows game.
goblinhack
Goblin Hack is a roguelike opengl-based smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics game.
gomoku
Gomoku is a two player 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.
See also Wikipedia.
gorched
A terminal based game written in Go inspired by "The Mother of all games" Scorched Earth
gpcslots2
An free/opensource casino text-console game with 5 slot machines, 3 roulette tables including russian roulette, 2 dice games, a bank and stock market.
grdc
grand digital clock (curses)
greed
A puzzle game with numbers. You must remove as many numbers as you can according to the rules.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
hack
Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
hack of life
The Hack of Life is a roguelike game based on Conway’s Game of Life.
halls of mist
A nice roguelike game (variant of angband).
hamurabi
Hamurabi is a 1969 text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. Its name is a shortening of Hammurabi, reduced to fit an eight-character limit.
See also Wikipedia.
hangman
Computer version of the game hangman. It's a BSD game.
hellband
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.
hinversi
Hinversi is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game.
Horserace
A very simple horserace simulation written in bash.
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.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
hunt-ng
A fork of BSD hunt with colour and realtime processing
Play: ssh [email protected]; password: kalte
hydra slayer
A nice and easy roguelike game.
imperium
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.
Infinite Cave Adventure
A roguelike game.
Play: telnet dungeon.name 20028
intricacy
A 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.
Play: ssh [email protected]; password: intricacy
Invaders Screencast
Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector)
ascii-invaders
An ASCII-art game like Space Invaders
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
ninvaders
nInvaders is a Space Invaders clone based on ncurses for ASCII output.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
lagrogue
Roguelike in which your commands are enacted after a few turns' delay.
Play: ssh [email protected]; password: lag
larn
Exploring the caverns of Larn. It's a BSD game.
Legend of the Red Dragon
Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) is a text-based online role-playing game.
See also Wikipedia.
Play: telnet darkrealms.ca
keeperrl
Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike elements.
Let it Ride
a multi-player card game, written by Hero
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
lexter
Lexter is a real-time word puzzle for text terminals. Arrange the falling letters into words to score points.
liberal crime squad
This is a very elaborated game where you have to fight with your friends against conservative laws.
mancala
Implementation of the simple board game called Mancala.
mangband
This is a multiplayer variant of angband.
manhunt
Play: telnet on twenex.org
Mario on vim
A command line implementation of Super Mario, inside Vim.
Dr. Mario
Dr. Mario or BUGS is a clone of Nentendo’s Dr. Mario, well sort of.
See also Wikipedia.
mastermind-nc
A simple version of the Mastermind game.
matanza
Space ascii war game.
mgt
Go is an ancient oriental strategy game based on the capturing of territory.
mille
A racing card game in BSD games based on the Parker Brothers game Mille Bornes. It's a BSD game.
minecurses
An ncurses minesweeper game but instead of having to uncover all non-mine cells, the player has to defuse all the mines.
minesVIiper
Minesweeper clone with extensive vi(1) keybindings (not just hjkl), mouse control. Beautiful Unicode character schemes, and even one for actual VT-200 hardware. Does not depend on ncurses.
miscom
A curses-based game where you must defend cities from missile attack. It’s essentially a clone of Atari’s “Missile Command” (with some minor enhancements) for terminals, and has colour and sound.
monop
Monopoly game. It's a BSD game.
monousa
A sort of monopoly game. At least two players are needed.
moo
Moo (a.k.a. Mastermind) supervisor and a very powerful Moo player.
moon-buggy
Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
moria
The game is set in Moria and the goal is to kill off the balrog.
msnake
A simple snake game written in C using the ncurses library.
microsnake
Micro Snake is based on a simple snake game by Simon Huggins.
mtrek
Game inspired by Star Trek
Play: telnet mtrek.com 170
mutant aliens
Mutant Aliens! sees a spaceship 'dock safely' into the forest of a hostile alien world.
myman
MyMan is a video game for color and monochrome text terminals in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man.
nclife
Conway's Game of Life in C++ using ncurses.
nethack
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine.
Play: telnet on nethack.alt.org
netris
This is netris, a networked version of t*tris. It allows head to head two player games via a network.
netris (2019)
Tetris clone featuring competitive online multiplayer.
Play: ssh netris.rocketnine.space
nettoe
netToe is a Tic Tac Toe-like game for the Unix consoles written in C using UNIX sockets.
nibbles
Nibbles is a remake of the classic Snake/Nibbles game in ncurses.
nim
A mathematical game of strategy written in bash.
nlarn
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.
npush
nPush is a logic game similar to Sokoban and Boulder Dash.
nsnake
Classic snake game on the terminal.
nsudoku
A Sudoku game for the console.
nsuds
A very elaborated sudoku game.
nudoku
ncurses based sudoku game
okiworld
okiworld is a host-to-host console-based strategy game.
oldrunner
Oldrunner is a remake of Broderbund’s Loderunner which contains the 150 original game levels. It is written in C and has a text-based interface.
omega
omega is a complex rogue-style game of dungeon exploration.
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.
othello
a two-player board game, written by Unk
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
ox3d
An aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player, developed in 1976. The player incorporates the knowledge of the three-in-a-plane forcing patterns and quite spontaneously discovered that plane-forks are deadlier than one would have thought. It can offer suggestions and can be made to play against itself.
pacman
It's a simple and ASCII version, so no fun (and IA is very stupid)...
Play: https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man
pacman
ASCII Pacman is a simple clone of the Pacman game. It features color and animation using only the curses library.
pacman
Pacman for Console.
pacman
A simple version of the famous pacman game written in Python.
Play: ssh pacman:[email protected]
Petals Around The Rose
A dice-based puzzle game written in bash.
petris
Another tetris clone.
phantasia
An interterminal fantasy game. It's a BSD game.
pillman Screencast
Pillman (aka pacman) game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file)
pinochle
a three-player card game, written by Sarac.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
piu-piu-SH
Old School horizontal scroller 'Shoot Them All' game in bash
plonx
Small ASCII puzzle game.
Poker
a multi-player five-card draw, written by Lucifer
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
pong
An old and very poor version of the old pong game.
portile
Portile is a 2D, tile-based take on narbacular drop.
Puyo on Vim
A command line implementation of Puyo, inside Vim.
puzzl
An intelligent version of the sliding-puzzle game for your terminal built in golang.
Scrabble
a two-to-four-player board game, written by Unk
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
Sgt. Major
a four-player card game, written by Lucifer
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
shogi
Japanese chess.
sshtron
SSHTron is a multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH.
Play: ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com
pyro
A roguelike written in Python; the display is smooth.
pythrees
Python curses homage to Threes!
pytris
pytris is a two-player networked console Tetris clone written in Python/Pyncurses.
Quacky
A Perquackey-type word game written in bash.
reversi
A good version of the othello/reversi game written in the Lisp langugage.
rhex
Simple ASCII terminal hexagonal map roguelike written in Rust.
Play: ssh rhex:[email protected]
robots
Fight off villainous robots. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
gnu-robots
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.
robotfindskitten
Yet another zen simulation.
rogue
Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
roguelike gallery
A living museum of roguelike games
Play: ssh [email protected] - password is yendor
the rougelike!
The Rougelike! is a roguelike game.
rr
Russian roulette
rummy
A command line version of the card game Rummy with competitive Computer Agent written in C++.
sail
Multi-user wooden ships and iron men. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
scrap
Scrap is an easy to play roguelike game.
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.
seabattle
A version of the classical battleships game.
seatris
Another clone of the tetris game.
the sewer massacre
A roguelike game written in Lisp.
shell-tanks
A tank game in bash with randomly generated terrain in which the object is to destroy your opponent.
shellshock
A top-down space shooter written for bash.
shogi
GNU Shogi is a computer program that plays the game of Shogi, also known as Japanese Chess.
sil
A good roguelike game.
simulchess
Simultaneous-move chess.
Play: ssh [email protected]; password: simulchess
singleplayer pong
Dockerized pong for one.
Play: ssh pong.brk.st
ski
A hotdogging game, evade the deadly Yeti on your jet-powered skis.
slashem
Another variant of the roguelike nethack game.
slashem.me
Variant of nethack and others
Play: ssh [email protected]
slider
A slider game.
snake
A quick and easy turn-based survival game; you have to move without being caught by a snake. It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
snake
snake game
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
snake
snake game
soccer
ASCII Soccer is a tool for investigating how groups of simple agents interact while playing a soccer-like game.
sokoban
Sokoban is a logical game, where U 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.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
sokoban
A fully playable version of the sokoban game, but a little hacking has to be done.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
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.
spacezero
SpaceZero is a Real Time Strategy 2D space combat game for two players over a network.
sporkhack
SporkHack is a variant of Nethack.
sst2k
Super Star Trek — a classic computer game
stardork
Stardork is a Linux terminal based maze game.
starlanes
Starlanes is a game of interstellar commerce for 1 to 4 players.
startrek
steamband
Steamband is a roguelike ASCII dungeon exploration simulation game.
sumeria
This is the good old “Govern Ancient Sumeria”, with a 1983 ecology re-write.
taipan
Modern version of Art Canfil's classic, Taipan.
telnet-games
Several arcade games
Play: telnet milek7.gq
terminal-phase
Space shooter game that runs in your terminal!
tetris
The game of tetris. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
ascii-tetris
ASCII Tetris game written in C
tetrix
A UNIX-hosted, curses-based clone of Tetris.
tint
Tint Is Not Tetris, a ncurses based clone of the original Tetris(tm) game.
threes
Threes!
tictactoe
Tic Tac Toe game
tictac4
A tic-tac-toe variant where you have to align four symbols (instead of three).
Toledo-Atomchess
Toledo Atomchess is the world's smallest chess program in x86 assembly code
tom bombem
An arcade game where you have to shoot on inanimate objects.
tornado
Tornado is the clone of a C64 game.
torus
A variant of the robots game.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
tower of mediocrity
A tower defense game. Unfortunately, the game is quite easy to win.
trek
Trekkie game. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
trek73
An old but rather elaborated game inspired by the Star Trek series.
trog
a roguelike game with simple commands.
tsl
The Slimy Lichmummy is a difficult roguelike in a traditional style.
tt
Tetris for Terminals is another, very old, clone of tetris.
tty-solitaire
ncurses-based klondike solitaire game.
Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000
typespeed
Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can.
tzar
A roguelike game.
ularn
An easy to play roguelike game.
ultrarogue
Another variant of Rogue.
umoria
An old and easy to play roguelike game.
unnethack
The first game in this roundup is UnNetHack, a fork of NetHack, originally based on the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack.
urban warfare
A roguelike game written in Lisp.
vadorz
Another space invaders game with simple graphics.
vagabondo
vapors of insanity
Vapors of Insanity is a roguelike game set on a paradise island of Fortarica.
venzone
venzone is a platform/adventure
VIper
Snake clone with hjkl (vi) and cursor key control. Colorful Unicode character set and a bunch of bonus items.
vitetris
vitetris is a terminal-based Tetris clone by Victor Nilsson. Gameplay is much like the early Tetris games by Nintendo.
vms-empire
Empire is a simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you.
wallyplus
A game for playing go.
Wander
Wander was probably the first computer game that is recognisable as what came to be known as a “text adventure”.
Play: https://s3.amazonaws.com/wander1974/wander.html
wanderer
Wanderer is a game similar to Boulderdash, Repton, XOR and others.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
wargames
Would you like to play a game?
See also Wikipedia.
Wolfentext3D
3-D dungeon crawling in your terminal!
worm
A version of the arcade game worm (sometimes called snake or nibbles). It's a BSD game.
Play: telnet on twenex.org
wump
Hunt the wumpus in an underground cave. It's a BSD game.
See also Wikipedia.
wumpus & superhack
A version of the very old game called Hunt the Wumpus by Eric Raymond. A joke version called “superhack” is included in the archive.
xorcurses
XorCurses is a puzzle game set inside a series of mazes.
yahtzee
A very nice yahtzee game where you can play against humans or against the computer (including several different opponents).
yahtzee-color
A very nice yahtzee game where you can play against humans or against the computer (including several different opponents).
yetris
yetris is a customizable Tetris(tm) clone for the console.
yuxtapa
is a multiplayer real-time CLI game.
zangband
One of the best roguelike games for the console.
zapm
Zapm is a science fiction roguelike game by Cyrus Dolph.
Z-Code games
z-code games
See also Wikipedia.
Play: telnet telehack.com (or http://telehack.com/)
z-day
Z-Day is an easy to play roguelike game. You have to kill zombies in a supermarket.
zis
Zionist In Space, a text-mode (curses) multiplayer game like Konquest (a turn based strategy; you send ships from planet to planet to conquer them).
znake
Just a simple colorful clone of the famous game Snake but with an extraordinary feature. Do you know the Soviet Russia meme by Smirnoff? Try to imagine if you don't eat the food but the food eats you.
zombies
Zombies is a simple curses-based game in the same style as robots.
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
zombies!
Zombies! is a roguelike written entirely from scratch, in one day, in Common Lisp.
zork I, II, III
An old game by Infocom. (DOS/Windows only)
Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org
zracer
ZRacer is a console car racing game. It has a curses based semi-graphical interface, a random track generator, editable settings, and supports hotseat multiplayer. 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.
ztrack
Ztrack is a (very) simple curses-based pseudo-3D driving game.