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Using only symbols available in the "ascii" set of characters

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Will they like me?
A friendly welcome from the contemporary ZZT community.
PogeSoft
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
1kRL
pico-8 1k byte
Feishiko
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Debugging
Get rid of the bugs!
bonkibot
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
PKMN CMD Battle Game!: ASCII Version
Relive the sights, sounds and action of all 151 Pokémon in this classic text-based cmd Battle Game!
BellBlitzKing
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
Capybara Capriole
Dodge obstacles atop your trusty Capybara. When that gets boring build your own level.
MansterSoft
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Daedalus' Obelisk ZZT
Action / adventure / platformer / yay!
emmzee
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Of Their Shadows Deep
A story about love and disease and loss.
Amanda Walker
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ASCII Quest
Text-based (and ascii-based) adventure game about a mysterious curse in a fantasy ASCII land
Cookie_CHR
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
The Mini-Game 3-in-1 Fun-Pak
$0
-100%
Three Mini Games; One Fun Pack
MansterSoft
Rated 3.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
ASCIIVenture
-All the visuals are just text. Unfinished. The old Pokemon games served as inspiration.
FMProductions
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Dark Aisle: A Retail Roguelike
A narrative mini-roguelike written completely in Ink.
bushn
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Despot
Expand your kingdom and make it prosper, or just enjoy a luxurious lifestyle while your peasants starve to death.
Undestroyed
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Tilper
The Text Platformer
Lucid Pixel Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
The Disappearance of Adam Wright
A Scary Text Adventure Game
huggingcactus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
on the shortness of life
a simple typing game
fishbowlforever
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Epitome Of Mysteries
Gosick Text-based Visual Novel Fangame
Hayaka Sae
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Forbidden City
The living text adventure
Inkbox Software
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Steno Rogue
Be a Steno Rogue who fights by typing! Seek the Apple of Eternal Life and become immortal, or die trying!
Maurog
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Asperger Knight Quest
ASCII text-only puzzle
Looping
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
entities2
entities2 is a small silly turn based combat CLI game.
Norb
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Strategy
Xonitix
As much action as we could pack in one line of a terminal
wildgaru
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
Forest
The start of a story about a bear longing to be someone else.
Rymdlingen
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Crab Battler 2
A command-line adventure with turn-based battles, random maps and loot, dialogue interactions, and dungeon crawls.
Ari Waggener
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Faster Than Time
Mark Mandriota
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
Kitten Hallway 3
Hallway Harder: Return of Kitten Hallway: The End of Kitten Hallway
WiL
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Wolframium
Random ASCII game
Partudos
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
Labyrinth of the Sorcerer King
A short Twine text adventure in the style of 1980s dungeon crawlers.
Brandon Vout
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Void for Zoea
Interactive text based adventure
theunfamiliarwolf
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Rogue 1d
Fight monsters, get gold, and upgrade your weapon in a 1 dimension(s).
foundtimegames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
Prism Song
Serve the Prism in this boss-rush fantasy platformer on the commandline!
Lowsun
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
GIF
WHISPERSTRING
An 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”.
RocRac
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Go Deeper!
TylerPitcock
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Everlasting Household Love
The ghost of a domestic returns to his former workplace to clean up again.
Adel Faure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
The Tomb of Darius Vöd
A puzzle adventure game.
WiL
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Horrorsphere
Horrorsphere is a text-based adventure game
oj18
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Ascii Hell (Jam version)
Text only bullet hell
omagerio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
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