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Unix ASCII games

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-ttygames
Owner: ligurio
Created: 2015-02-06T07:35:43.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2024-05-15T08:57:14.000Z (8 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-05-19T21:18:30.627Z (8 months ago)
Topics: ascii, ascii-art, ascii-game, asciicast, asciinema, awesome, game, opensource, terminal
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Watchers: 25
Forks: 51
Open Issues: 6
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml

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README

# 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 [email protected]`

### 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 [email protected] -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 [email protected]; 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 [email protected]`

### 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 [email protected]; 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 [email protected]; 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 [email protected]; 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:[email protected]`

### 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:[email protected]`

### 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 [email protected] - 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 [email protected]; 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 [email protected]`

### 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