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# Unix ASCII games Feel free to submit pull requests to add new games and improve information about those already in the database. ## How to contribute Check `games.yaml` out. All information is inside, and you should more or less understand what's going on by reading it. Sorting is alphabetical. Simplest way to contribute: edit [games.yaml](/games.yaml), and then your changes will be submitted as a pull request. Use this template: ``` - name: hangman url: https://man.openbsd.org/hangman.6 info: computer version of the game hangman screencast: play: ``` - `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 [![CC0 Public Domain](http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) To the extent possible under law, [Sergey Bronnikov](https://bronevichok.ru) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. ### 0verkill [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486195.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486195) is bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game. Website: https://github.com/hackndev/0verkill ### 2048 [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486174.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486174) is a clone of 2048 game. Website: https://github.com/mevdschee/2048.c Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game) ### 2048-cli [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34067.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34067) is a clone of 2048 game. Website: https://github.com/Tiehuis/2048-cli Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2048_(video_game) ### 2048-SSH 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` ### n2048 [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/35973.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/35973) 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) ### ASCII patrol ![Alt Text](http://ascii-patrol.com/ascii-patrol.gif) is a clone of "Moon Patrol" game. Website: http://ascii-patrol.com/ **Play**: `http://ascii-patrol.com/area51/ascii-patrol-html5.html` ### aburatan is a roguelike game of Cowboy Knights and Lurking Horror. Website: http://aburatan.sourceforge.net/ ### ad astra is a turn-based space strategy game. Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ad-astra-game/ ### adom ![Alt Text](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/6/69/Adom_big.gif) is a roguelike game ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery). Website: https://www.adom.de/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Domains_of_Mystery ### adventure 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/` ### alienrl is a tactical roguelike game, inspired by the "Aliens" movie. Website: https://alien.chaosforge.org/ ### alienwave [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486887.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486887) is a clone of Space Invaders game. Website: https://www.alessandropira.org/alienwave/aw.html Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Invaders ### allureofthestars is a roguelike and tactical squad combat game. Website: http://www.allureofthestars.com/ **Play**: `http://www.allureofthestars.com/play` ### angband is a single-player dungeon exploration game. Website: https://rephial.org/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game) ### anonymine [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/511454.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/511454) 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"` ### aop [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34678.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34678) Ambassador of Pain (aop). A very nice and challenging arcade game. Website: https://raffi.at/view/code/aop ### Apple Trek is a clone of Star Trek game. Website: http://peyre.x10.mx/GWBASIC/index.htm#AppleTrek Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Trek ### arkanoid-bash [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/36415.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/36415) 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.py 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-sed 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 ### arithmetic [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486298.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486298) Quiz on simple arithmetic. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/arithmetic.6 ### asciijump [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/31340.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/31340) The ski-jumping ASCII game. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/asciijump ### ASCIIpOrtal ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game. Website: https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal ### ASCII-Chess Chess program with AI having a vintage linux terminal interface. Website: https://github.com/Parigyan/ASCII-Chess ### asciisector Free space combat/exploration/trading game. Website: http://www.asciisector.net/ ### astwar 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 ### atc [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486304.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486304) Air traffic controller game. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/atc.6 ### avanor Rogue-like game with easy ADOM-like user interface. Website: http://avanor.sourceforge.net/ ### awkaster Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique Website: https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster ### backgammon 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 ### bashmaze [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486297.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486297) A maze game written completely in shell-script. Website: https://github.com/phoemur/bashmaze ### bastet [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486931.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486931) Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris). Website: http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### battleships [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486229.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486229) 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) ### battlestar A tropical adventure game. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/battlestar.6 ### bcd [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486305.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486305) Punched card. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/bcd.6 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card ### beasts 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) ### Behacked 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 ### beyond the tesseract 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` ### blocks A block-based puzzle game. ### bluemoon [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486306.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486306) The Blue Moon card solitaire. Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/bluemoon/ ### bj a black-jack card game. **Play**: `telnet or ssh on sdf.org` ### BootMine ![Alt Text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/io12/BootMine/master/demo.gif) Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector. Website: https://github.com/io12/BootMine Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) ### BootRogue [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487008.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487008) is a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes). Website: https://github.com/nanochess/bootRogue ### boggle 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` ### bombardier [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486231.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486231) Clone of the old Blitz16 game on Commodore 16/Plus 4. Website: https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/i386/games/bombardier ### 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. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Dash ### bowling [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/41475.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/41475) Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library. Website: https://github.com/haliphax/pybowl ### braincurses [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486307.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486307) A nice version of the mastermind game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/braincurses/ ### Bricks [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487020.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487020) A game of bricks and paddle on one boot sector (510 bytes). Website: https://github.com/nanochess/bricks ### Bricks Port of the Bricks boot sector game to (16-bit) C. Website: https://github.com/jaens/bricks-cport ### brogue Brogue is a Roguelike game. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ ### bs Battleships game. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/bs.6 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29 ### caesar decrypt caesar cyphers Website: https://man.openbsd.org/caesar.6 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher ### canfield 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 ### Caribbean Stud a multi-player card game, written by Hero **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### cataclysm 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 ### cavez of phear is a boulder dash / digger like game. Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20140627005101/http://www.x86.no/cavezofphear/ ### cbattleship is a clone of the classic Battleship game. Website: https://github.com/gnomengineer/cBattleship ### cblocks is a set of sliding-block puzzles. Website: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html ### checkers is a two-player board game. **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### chess is a chess game implemented in sed utility. Website: https://github.com/bolknote/SedChess ### conix is a clone of Xonix game. Website: https://bitbucket.org/garnold/conix/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonix ### gnuchess is a chess-playing program. Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/chess/ **Play**: `telnet freechess.org 5000 (login guest)` ### chs is a chess game against the Stockfish engine. Website: https://github.com/nickzuber/chs ### chimaera is a highly unusual "infinite" adventure game. Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/ ### chroma [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486998.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486998) is a challenging puzzle game. Website: http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/ **Play**: `http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/chroma.html` ### ckhet is a clone of Khet laser board game. Website: https://mbays.freeshell.org/ckhet/ **Play**: `ssh ckhet@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: ckhet` ### clines [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486945.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486945) 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 ### clines [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486233.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486233) is a clone of Color Lines game. Website: https://github.com/veselov/clines Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Lines ### cmines [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486954.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486954) is a clone of Minesweeper game. Website: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/cgames.html Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) ### cnibbles [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486713.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486713) 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) ### Connect Four is a two-player slot game. **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### connect4 [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486711.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486711) is a clone of Connect4 game. Website: https://github.com/badescunicu/connect4 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four ### beejjorgensen-conquest is a clone of the old Amiga Conquest text-based game. Website: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/conquest ### jtrulson-conquest is a real-time, multi-player space warfare game. Website: https://github.com/jtrulson/conquest/ **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### gnu-conquest is a multiplayer galactic game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-conquest/ ### corewar 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/ ### cpat [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487001.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487001) is a card game; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games. Website: http://cpat.sourceforge.net/ ### crawl [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/524.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/524) 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/ ### cribbage is a card game cribbage. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/cribbage.6 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbage ### cryptrover Escape From The Crypt. Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/cryptrover/ ### csol [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486707.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486707) 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 ### ctris [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486703.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486703) is a clone of Tetris game. Website: https://github.com/dominikhackl/ctris Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### cursedmate is a game with a hacking atmosphere. Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130804035452/http://www.uberwall.org/~dash/ ### curse-of-war [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486446.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486446) is a fast-paced action strategy game. Website: https://a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwar/ ### ascii-dash [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486442.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486442) 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 ### dab is a Dots and Boxes game. Website: https://man.netbsd.org/dab.6 ### dango is a tui Go (baduk) board written in python Website: https://github.com/gsobell/dango ### decwars is a multiplayer clone of Star Trek game. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29 **Play**: `telnet decwars.com 1701` ### diablorl is a roguelike "unmake" of the popular Blizzard game Diablo. Website: https://diablo.chaosforge.org/ ### dMagnetic [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/281636.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/281636) is a number of games (The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves, Jinxter, Fish!, Myth, Corruption and Wonderland). Website: https://www.dettus.net/dMagnetic ### doomrl 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) ### dopewars 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` ### dsol is a solitaire card game. Website: https://feld.me/pub/vga_cardgames-1.3.1.tgz ### duel commander is a turn based command line fighting game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/duelcommander/ ### dukedomrb 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) ### dungeon crawl is a text-based roguelike game. Website: http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/ ### dwarf fortress is a single-player fantasy game. Website: https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ ### emacs 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 ### encircled is a roguelike game. Website: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Encircled ### enigma is a puzzle game where items have to be collected in the right order. Website: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/enigma/ ### eyangband is a clone of Angband. Website: http://eyangband.sourceforge.net/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game) ### elite Website: https://www.bbcelite.com/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game) ### factor is a factor a number, generate primes. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/factor.6 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization ### fbird [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487025.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487025) is a text bootsector game. Website: https://github.com/nanochess/fbird ### Fifteen Puzzle 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 ### fish 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 ### fiTD A basic console-based tower defense game/engine. Website: https://github.com/odditica/fiTD ### FloodIt 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 ### flying-robots [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486448.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486448) is based on the BSD robots game, but with a third dimension of movement. Website: https://github.com/bunburya/flying-robots ### fortune print a random, hopefully interesting, adage. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/fortune.6 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29 ### freecell is a clone of the popular and addictive solitaire game. Website: https://www.linusakesson.net/software/freecell.php **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### freecell-ng Fork with improvements over ncurses freecell implementation by Linus Akesson (solver support, better metamoves, various usability improvements). Website: https://github.com/ostrosablin/freecell ### freesweep [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486999.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486999) is a clone of Minesweeper game. Website: https://code.google.com/archive/p/freesweep/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) ### freesweep-rwestlund is a clone of Minesweeper game. Website: https://github.com/rwestlund/freesweep Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) ### fkmines [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486970.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486970) is a clone of Minesweeper game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fkmines/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) ### frozen depths is a roguelike game with an entertaining atmosphere. Website: https://frozendepths.net/ ### frotz [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/372170.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/372170) is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. Website: https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/ ### ft_retro [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487578.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487578) is a shooting game. Website: https://gitlab.com/Heagan/ft_retro ### galaxis Find the lost lifeboats from an interstellar liner. Website: http://www.catb.org/esr/galaxis/ ### gameroom 11 arcade games **Play**: `ssh gameroom@bitreich.org` ### gearhead is the first roguelike to explore the world of “mechas” (giant robots). Website: http://www.gearheadrpg.com/ ### ascii-snake [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487004.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487004) is a clone of a Snake game. Website: https://github.com/cyphar/ascii-snake Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) ### gnugo [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486319.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486319) is the game of Go. Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) ### gnuski [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485510.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485510) is a clone of Skifree, the old Windows game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuski/ ### goblinhack is a roguelike OpenGL-based smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics game. Website: https://github.com/goblinhack/goblinhack ### gomoku [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486510.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486510) 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 ### gopnik2 [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/631712.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/631712) «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 ### gorched is a a clone of "Scorched Earth" game. Website: https://github.com/zladovan/gorched ### gpcslots2 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/ ### grdc is a grand digital clock. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/grdc.6 ### greed [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486320.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486320) 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` ### hack 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` ### hack of life is a roguelike game based on Conway’s Game of Life. Website: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=HackOfLife ### halls of mist 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) ### hamurabi 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 ### hammurabi 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 ### hangman [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/35801.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/35801) 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) ### 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. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/hellband ### hinversi [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486222.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486222) is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hinversi/ ### Horserace is a very simple horserace simulation. Website: https://pastebin.com/3KvCBg57 ### 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. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/hunt.6 **Play**: `telnet or ssh on sdf.org` ### hunt-ng 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` ### hydra slayer is a roguelike game. Website: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hydra/ ### 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. Website: https://empiredirectory.net/ ### Infinite Cave Adventure is a roguelike game. Website: http://www.dungeon.name **Play**: `telnet dungeon.name 20028` ### intricacy 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` ### Invaders [![IMAGE ALT TEXT](http://img.youtube.com/vi/pC976eejfms/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC976eejfms "Screencast") 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 ### just-asteroids is a clone of Asteroids game. Website: https://github.com/gabrielvictorcf/just-asteroids Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game) ### ascii-invaders [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34018.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34018) 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` ### ninvaders 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` ### lagrogue 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` ### larn Exploring the caverns of Larn. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.netbsd.org/larn.6 ### Legend of the Red Dragon 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` ### LeTrain [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/8E4ZEyw26SgdgGZoCrxS2CW2J.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/8E4ZEyw26SgdgGZoCrxS2CW2J) An ascii railroad simulator in Java Website: https://github.com/antoniovazquezaraujo/LeTrain ### lights [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487018.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487018) is a boot sector game. Website: https://github.com/nanochess/lights ### Lunar Landing [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/605229.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/605229) 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/` ### landing-rust 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 ### katamascii [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486171.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486171) is a puzzle game, roll around your terminal collecting ASCII-art objects. Website: https://github.com/taviso/katamascii ### keeperrl Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike elements. Website: https://keeperrl.com/ ### LeTrain 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 ### Let it Ride is a multi-player card game. **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### lexter [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/35970.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/35970) 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 ### liberal crime squad is a game where you have to fight with your friends against conservative laws. Website: http://lcs.wikidot.com/start ### Mafia-Werewolf 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) ### Magnetic Scrolls games 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` ### mancala is a clone of a simple board game called Mancala. Website: https://shh.thathost.com/pub-unix/#Mancala ### mangband is a multiplayer clone of Angband game. Website: https://www.mangband.org/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game) ### manhunt **Play**: `telnet on twenex.org` ### memwatch [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486217.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486217) memwatch contains an easter egg - a game with a pinguin that jumps between holes in a pipelines. Website: https://github.com/0x501D/memwatch ### vim-mario is a clone of Super Mario game inside Vim (text editor). Website: https://github.com/rbtnn/vim-mario ### Dr. 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 ### mastermind-nc is a clone of the Mastermind game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mastermind-nc/ ### matanza is a space war game. ### mgt Go is an ancient oriental strategy game based on the capturing of territory. ### mille 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 ### minecurses 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) ### minesVIiper [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486236.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486236) 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) ### miscom 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 ### monop is a Monopoly game. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/monop.6 ### monousa A sort of monopoly game. At least two players are needed. Website: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/multiplayer/monoUSA2.0.tgz ### moo Moo (a.k.a. Mastermind) supervisor and a very powerful Moo player. Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/ ### moon-buggy [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34071.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34071) 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` ### moria 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 ### morpion solitaire A morpion solitaire game implementation in C using ncurses. Website: https://github.com/gre/morpion-solitaire Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_five ### msnake [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/35971.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/35971) is a clone of Snake game. Website: https://github.com/mogria/msnake Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) ### microsnake is a clone of Snake game. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/micro-snake Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) ### mtrek 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 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! ### myman [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487037.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487037) is a game in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man. Website: https://myman.sourceforge.io/ ### nbsdgames New BSD Games is a package of 18 text-based modern games. Website: https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames ### nclife [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486901.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486901) is a Conway's Game of Life. Website: https://github.com/mikepierce/ncLife Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life ### nethack [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34687.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34687) is a single player dungeon exploration game. Website: https://www.nethack.org/ **Play**: `telnet on nethack.alt.org` ### netris is a networked version of t*tris. Website: https://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/netris-0.52.tar.gz ### go-netris 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` ### c-netris [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486899.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486899) is a clone of Tetris game featuring competitive online multiplayer. Website: https://github.com/naclander/netris Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### nettoe [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/35969.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/35969) is a clone of Tic Tac Toe game. Website: http://nettoe.sourceforge.net/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe ### nibbles is a remake of the classic Snake/Nibbles game. Website: https://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/nibbles.html ### nim is a mathematical game of strategy. Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#NIM ### 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. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/nlarn ### npush is a logic game similar to Sokoban and Boulder Dash. Website: http://npush.sourceforge.net/ ### nsnake [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/35976.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/35976) is a clone of Snake game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnake/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) ### nsudoku [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34688.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34688) is a clone of Sudoku game. Website: https://www.tbmatuka.com/nsudoku/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku ### nsuds is a clone of Sudoku game. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsuds/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku ### nudoku [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34070.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34070) is a clone of Sudoku game. Website: https://jubalh.github.io/nudoku/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku ### nuzzle [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486907.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486907) is a puzzle game collection (N-curses p-UZZLE). Website: https://github.com/dead-end/nuzzle ### lightcycle [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/597924.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/597924) a classic Tron game, for your terminal. Website: https://github.com/gsobell/lightcycle Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(video_game)#Gameplay ### okiworld is a host-to-host strategy game. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/okiworld ### oldrunner is a remake of Broderbund’s Loderunner. Website: http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html ### omega is a rogue-style game of dungeon exploration. Website: http://www.alcyone.com/max/projects/omega/ ### 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. Website: https://gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure ### Oregon-Trail 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) ### othello 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` ### ox3d [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487029.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487029) is an aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player. Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/ ### pacman [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34686.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34686) 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` ### pacman is a clone of Pacman game. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/asciipacman/ ### pacman [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34685.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34685) is a clone of Pacman. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/doctormike/pacman.html ### pacman is a clone of Pacman game. Website: http://antimirov.net/it/pacman/ **Play**: `ssh pacman:pacman@antimirov.net` ### PAG 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 ### Petals Around The Rose is a dice-based puzzle game. Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#PETALS ### petris is a clone of Tetris game. Website: https://packages.debian.org/sid/games/petris ### phantasia is a interterminal fantasy game. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.openbsd.org/phantasia.6 ### pillman [![IMAGE ALT TEXT](http://img.youtube.com/vi/ALBgsXOq11o/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBgsXOq11o "Screencast") is a clone of Pacman game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file). Website: https://github.com/nanochess/pillman ### Ping-Pong-like ![Alt Text](https://i.imgur.com/AKEjIKw.gif) is game in Assembly that works without OS. Website: https://github.com/tsoding/pinpog ### pinochle is a three-player card game. **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### piskworks is a clone of Gomoku game. Website: https://github.com/berk76/piskworks ### piu-piu-SH [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487583.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487583) is an old school horizontal scroller 'Shoot Them All' game. Website: https://github.com/vaniacer/piu-piu-SH ### plonx [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487041.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487041) is a small puzzle game. Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20080704073046/http://bilious.homelinux.org/~paxed/plonx/ ### Poker is a multi-player five-card draw. **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### pong 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 ### portile is a 2D, tile-based take on narbacular drop. Website: https://www.increpare.com/2008/11/portile/ ### Proxima 5 A curses-style space shooter written in Go, using the Tcell package. Website: https://github.com/gdamore/proxima5 ### Puyo on Vim 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) ### puzzl is an intelligent version of the sliding-puzzle game. Website: https://github.com/pravj/puzzl ### Scrabble is a two-to-four-player board game. **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### Sgt. Major is a four-player card game. **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### shogi is a Japanese chess. Website: http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/gnushogi/gnushogi.html ### sshtron is a multiplayer lightcycle game. Website: http://sshtron.zachlatta.com/ **Play**: `ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com` ### Starlanes 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 ### pyro is a rogue-like game. Website: http://pyrogue.sourceforge.net/ ### pythrees [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487042.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487042) is a clone of Threes! game. Website: https://github.com/yth/pythrees ### pytris is a two-player networked console Tetris clone. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/pytris ### Quacky is a Perquackey-type word game. Website: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#QKY ### reversi is a clone of Othello (Reversi) game. ### rhex [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34224.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34224) is a hexagonal map rogue-like. Website: https://github.com/dpc/rhex **Play**: `ssh rhex:rhex123@rhex.dpc.pw` ### robots [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486323.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486323) 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` ### 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. Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/readme.html Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_%28BSD_game%29 ### robotfindskitten Yet another zen simulation. Website: http://robotfindskitten.org/ ### rogue [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/35802.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/35802) Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game. Website: https://man.netbsd.org/rogue.6 **Play**: `telnet or ssh on sdf.org` ### roguelike gallery A living museum of roguelike games Website: https://rlgallery.org **Play**: `ssh rodney@rlgallery.org - password is yendor` ### the rougelike! is a roguelike game. Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm ### rr is a russian roulette. Website: https://oskog97.com/archive/awesome-ttygames/rr/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette ### rummy is clone the card game Rummy with competitive Computer Agent. Website: https://github.com/ljc2154/Rummy ### sail [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486324.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486324) 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 ### scrap is an easy to play roguelike game. Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20130524032130/http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~mommen/scrap/ ### 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. Website: https://joeyh.name/code/scroll/ ### seabattle [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34680.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34680) is a clone of the classical battleships game. Website: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/seabattle.html ### seatris is a clone of Tetris game. Website: https://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/seatris.html ### the sewer massacre is a roguelike game. Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/sewers.htm ### shell-tanks [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485506.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485506) is a tank game with randomly generated terrain in which the object is to destroy your opponent. Website: https://github.com/annacrombie/shell-tanks ### shellshock [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485508.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485508) is a top-down space shooter. Website: https://dhampir.no/stuff/bash/shellshock ### shogi is a computer program that plays the game of Shogi, also known as Japanese Chess. Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/ ### sil is a roguelike game. Website: http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/ ### simulchess is a simultaneous-move chess. Website: https://mbays.freeshell.org/simulchess/ **Play**: `ssh simulchess@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: simulchess` ### singleplayer pong is a dockerized pong for one. Website: https://github.com/Birkenstab/SSH-Pong **Play**: `ssh pong.brk.st` ### ski [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485509.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485509) is a hotdogging game, evade the deadly Yeti on your jet-powered skis. Website: http://catb.org/~esr/ski/ ### slashem is a clone of the roguelike Nethack game. Website: http://slashem.sourceforge.net/ ### slashem.me Variant of nethack and others **Play**: `ssh slashem@slashem.me` ### slider is a slider game. Website: ftp://80.92.105.240/ftp.ibiblio.org/ibiblio_linux_archive/games/strategy/slider-1.0.c.gz ### BootSlide is a clone of the slider puzzle game in a boot sector. Website: https://github.com/XlogicX/BootSlide ### snake [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486325.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486325) 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` ### snake 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` ### snake [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/1715.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/1715) 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) ### asm_snake [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487046.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487046) 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) ### soccer 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/ ### sokoban 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` ### sokoban is a clone of Sokoban game. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban **Play**: `telnet or ssh on sdf.org` ### sokoban-bootsector [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487049.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487049) is a clone of Sokoban game in a boot sector. Website: https://ish.works/bootsector/bootsector.html Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban ### solVItaire [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486179.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486179) 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 ### spacezero is a real time strategy 2D space combat game for two players over a network. Website: http://spacezero.sourceforge.net/ ### sporkhack is a clone of Nethack game. Website: https://github.com/NHTangles/sporkhack ### sqlite-hangman [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485496.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485496) 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) ### sst2k 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 ### stardork is a maze game. Website: http://stardork.sourceforge.net/ ### starlanes is a game of interstellar commerce for 1 to 4 players. Website: http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/game/starlanes.html ### startrek 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 ### steamband is a roguelike dungeon exploration simulation game. Website: http://angband.oook.cz/steamband/steamband.html ### sumeria This is the good old “Govern Ancient Sumeria”, with a 1983 ecology re-write. Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/ ### sunfish [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485498.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485498) is a chess engine in 111 lines of code. Website: https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish ### taipan 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 ### telnet-games Several arcade games. Website: https://github.com/Milek7/telnet-games **Play**: `telnet milek7.gq 23` ### terminal-frogger [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487030.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487030) is a frogger-themed game. Website: https://github.com/mfey619/Terminal-Frogger ### terminal_gem_match A simple match 3 game in the terminal, using the ncurses library. Website: https://github.com/ATBennett/terminal_gem_match ### terminal-phase ![Alt Text](https://dustycloud.org/gfx/goodies/terminal-phase-parallax-starfield.gif) is a space shooter game. Website: https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/terminal-phase ### tinytetris [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485499.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485499) is a 80x23 terminal tetris Website: https://github.com/taylorconor/tinytetris Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### tetris [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486892.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486892) 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 ### tetranglix [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487013.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487013) is a clone of Tetris game. Website: https://github.com/nanochess/tetranglix Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### berk76-tetris [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485501.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485501) is a clone of Tetris game. Website: https://github.com/berk76/tetris Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### ascii-tetris [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485503.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485503) is a clone of Tetris game. Website: https://github.com/Gregwar/ASCII-Tetris Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### tetrix is a clone of Tetris game. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tetrix Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### tint [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486879.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486879) is a clone of Tetris game (Tint Is Not Tetris). Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### TinyCols [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/562766.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/562766) is a clone of the Columns game. Website: https://github.com/zedr/tinycols ### threes [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/18135.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/18135) is a clone of Threes! game. Website: https://github.com/harshjv/threes-c ### tictactoe 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 ### tictac4 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 ### Toledo-Atomchess [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/487011.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/487011) is the world's smallest chess program in x86 assembly code. Website: https://github.com/nanochess/Toledo-Atomchess ### Tom Bombem [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485505.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485505) is an arcade game where you have to shoot on inanimate objects. Website: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/tb1/ ### tornado is the clone of a Tornado, C64 game. Website: https://github.com/kouya/tornado Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_(1993_video_game) ### torus 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` ### tossug-arena Board-Gamelets Arena for poor AI Players. Website: https://github.com/tossug/tossug-arena ### tower-of-mediocrity 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/ ### trek 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 ### trek73 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 ### trog is a roguelike game with simple commands. Website: https://github.com/JohnAnthony/TROG ### the-slimy-lichmummy is a difficult roguelike in a traditional style. Website: http://www.happyponyland.net/the-slimy-lichmummy ### tt is a clone of Tetris game. Website: http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/tt/#gsc.tab=0 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris ### tty-solitaire [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/6519.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/6519) is a clone of Klondike solitaire game. Website: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire **Play**: `telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000` ### typespeed [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485492.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485492) Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can. Website: http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ ### tzar is a roguelike game. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tzar ### udd 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) ### ularn is a roguelike game. Website: https://github.com/joshbressers/ularn ### ultrarogue is a roguelike game. Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20180216113810/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/ultrarogue-1-07/ ### umoria is an old and easy to play roguelike game. Website: http://remarque.org/~grabiner/moria.html ### Unnamed Fiefdom Game [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486908.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486908) is a text-based MMO about controlling fiefdoms, farming gold, and stealing from your enemies! Website: https://github.com/Sheeves11/UnnamedFiefdomGame/ ### unnethack [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485489.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485489) 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/ ### urban warfare is a roguelike game written in Lisp. Website: https://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/sewers.htm ### vadorz [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486872.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486872) 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 ### vagabondo Website: ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/vagabondo.c.gz ### vapors of insanity is a roguelike game set on a paradise island of Fortarica. Website: https://www.roguetemple.com/z/vapors/ ### venzone [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486868.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486868) is a platform/adventure game. Website: http://ariis.it/static/articles/venzone/page.html ### VIper [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486867.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486867) is a clone of Snake game with hjkl (vi) and cursor key control. Website: https://gir.st/viper.html ### vitetris [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34069.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34069) 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 ### vms-empire Empire is a simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you. Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/vms-empire/ ### wallyplus is a game for playing Go. Website: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/strategy/wallyplus-0.1.2.tar.gz ### Wander 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` ### wanderer 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` ### wargames Would you like to play a game? Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames ### Wolfentext3D is a 3-D dungeon crawling game. Website: https://github.com/AtomicPair/wolfentext3d ### worm [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486326.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486326) 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` ### clidle [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485486.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485486) is a clone of Wordle, Wordle over SSH. Website: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/clidle **Play**: `ssh clidle.ddns.net -p 3000` ### wordle-cli [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/485484.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/485484) is a clone of Wordle. Website: https://github.com/nimblebun/wordle-cli ### wump [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/35800.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/35800) 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 ### wumpus is a clone of the very old game called Hunt the Wumpus. Website: http://www.catb.org/esr/wumpus/ ### xorcurses [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/34065.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/34065) 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 ### xonitix 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 ### yahtzee 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 ### yahtzee-color 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 ### yetris is a clone of Tetris. Website: https://alexdantas.github.io/yetris/ ### yuxtapa is a multiplayer real-time game. Website: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/yuxtapa ### zangband is a roguelike game. Website: http://www.zangband.org/ ### zapm is a science fiction roguelike game. Website: http://zapm.org/ ### Z-Code games 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/)` ### z-day is an easy to play roguelike game. You have to kill zombies in a supermarket. Website: http://sheep.art.pl/Z-Day ### zis 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/ ### znake is a clone of Snake but with an extraordinary feature. Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/znake-ulven/ ### zombies is a game in the same style as robots. Website: http://www.thistledown.com.au/software/ **Play**: `telnet or ssh on sdf.org` ### zombies is a roguelike game. Website: http://distractionandnonsense.com/zombies/ ### zork 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` ### zracer 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 ### ztrack [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/486500.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/486500) is a pseudo-3D driving game. Website: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/arcade/ztrack-1.0.tar.gz ### typr [![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/617774.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/617774) python based typing test game. Website: https://github.com/DriftingOtter/Typr ### zztgo 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