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Top freetagged terminal and Text based (43 results)

Explore games tagged terminal and Text based on itch.io. Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great a · Upload your games to itch.io to have them show up here.

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A chaotic text-based roguelike played in the terminal!
Action
Mysterious command line tools
Puzzle
A text based RPG where you play as a highschool freshman.
Role Playing
Tetris for ANSI/VT100-compatible terminals and DOS PCs
Puzzle
An RPG text adventure to play in a terminal.
Role Playing
As much action as we could pack in one line of a terminal
Action
Hacker simulator
Simulation
Open fire?
Role Playing
a laundry simulator
Simulation
How deep into cyberspace can you go?
Role Playing
Play in browser
Challenge yourself using linux commands to discover, and protect your machine!
Simulation
Welcome to the ASMRFactory! Type 'help' for more info.
Text based game where you have to monitor a server as administrator.
Simulation
Connection Established...
Puzzle
A command line hacking game
Puzzle
Hack a 1960s computer to uncover a secret society's cryptic conspiracies.
Simulation
Play in browser
"It's Kinda an OS"
Simulation
Play in browser
It's 2182 and you must use your computer console to defuse the missile!
Puzzle
Use your scanner to hunt the fugitive aliens!
Puzzle
Fight for liberty and justice.
Puzzle
X.E.N.A
Simulation
ascii, terminal, ASCII, commandline, Windows, OSX, Linux
Action
Explore the system, and uncover the tale of a companies misdeeds...
it's all... AN ILLUSION
Interactive Fiction
Game about programming (not real =3)
Strategy
Play in browser
A game for practicing wingdings
Educational
An 80s style hacking text game hiding an anagram puzzle
Puzzle
Play in browser
Play in browser
retro ascii terminal puzzles
Puzzle
A game where you fight and buy 'stuff'! My first game. Please report bugs!
Role Playing
The goal in Clever Discard is to discard all cards onto two discard stacks.
Puzzle
Play in browser
A command-line-interface coffee brewing experience
Simulation
A collection of escape room / adventure / puzzle games that run in the terminal and use ascii art.
Adventure
Short text quest about escaping from Attraction Island made for Text-Based Jam by AnGuGames.
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