# 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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486195)
is bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game.
Website: https://github.com/hackndev/0verkill
### 2048
[](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
[](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
[](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
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
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
[](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 [Screencast](http://www.allureofthestars.com/play)
is a roguelike and tactical squad combat game.
Website: http://www.allureofthestars.com/
### angband
is a single-player dungeon exploration game.
Website: https://rephial.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
### anonymine
[](https://asciinema.org/a/82455)
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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486298)
Quiz on simple arithmetic. It's a BSD game.
Website: https://man.openbsd.org/arithmetic.6
### asciijump
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486297)
A maze game writen completely in shell-script.
Website: https://github.com/phoemur/bashmaze
### bastet
[](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
[](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
[](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)
### 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
[](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
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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/41475)
Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library.
Website: https://github.com/haliphax/pybowl
### braincurses
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486307)
A nice version of the mastermind game.
Website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/braincurses/
### Bricks
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/487001)
is a card game; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games.
Website: http://cpat.sourceforge.net/
### crawl
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486446)
is a fast-paced action strategy game.
Website: https://a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwar/
### ascii-dash
[](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
### 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
[](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/
### 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
[](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
### flying-robots
[](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```
### freesweep
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/372170)
is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games.
Website: https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/
### ft_retro
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
### 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
[](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
### hangman
[](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
[](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 [Screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC976eejfms)
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
[](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```
### lights
[](https://asciinema.org/a/487018)
is a boot sector game.
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/lights
### katamascii
[](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/
### Let it Ride
is a multi-player card game.
**Play**: ```telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000```
### lexter
[](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
### 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
[](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
[](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
[](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
### msnake
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/487037)
is a game in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man.
Website: https://myman.sourceforge.io/
### nclife
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486907)
is a puzzle game collection (N-curses p-UZZLE).
Website: https://github.com/dead-end/nuzzle
### 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
### 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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/487029)
is an aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player.
Website: https://www.mipmip.org/C_games/
### pacman
[](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
[](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```
### 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 [Screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBgsXOq11o)
is a clone of Pacman game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file).
Website: https://github.com/nanochess/pillman
### 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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/487583)
is an old school horizontal scroller 'Shoot Them All' game.
Website: https://github.com/vaniacer/piu-piu-SH
### plonx
[](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/
### 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```
### pyro
is a rogue-like game.
Website: http://pyrogue.sourceforge.net/
### pythrees
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/487030)
is a frogger-themed game.
Website: https://github.com/mfey619/Terminal-Frogger
### terminal-phase
is a space shooter game.
Website: https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/terminal-phase
### tinytetris
[](https://asciinema.org/a/485499)
is a 80x23 terminal tetris
Website: https://github.com/taylorconor/tinytetris
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
### tetris
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486879)
is a clone of Tetris game (Tint Is Not Tetris).
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
### threes
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
### 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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486868)
is a platform/adventure game.
Website: http://ariis.it/static/articles/venzone/page.html
### VIper
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/485484)
is a clone of Wordle.
Website: https://github.com/nimblebun/wordle-cli
### wump
[](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
[](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
[](https://asciinema.org/a/486500)
is a pseudo-3D driving game.
Website: https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/games/arcade/ztrack-1.0.tar.gz
