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Top freetagged terminal and Text based (40 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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Mysterious command line tools
Puzzle
An RPG text adventure to play in a terminal.
Role Playing
A text based RPG where you play as a highschool freshman.
Role Playing
Hacker simulator
Simulation
Open fire?
Role Playing
As much action as we could pack in one line of a terminal
Action
a laundry simulator
Simulation
Tetris for ANSI/VT100-compatible terminals and DOS PCs
Puzzle
How deep into cyberspace can you go?
Role Playing
Play in browser
Explore the system, and uncover the tale of a companies misdeeds...
Hack a 1960s computer to uncover a secret society's cryptic conspiracies.
Simulation
Play in browser
Challenge yourself using linux commands to discover, and protect your machine!
Simulation
Text based game where you have to monitor a server as administrator.
Simulation
Connection Established...
Puzzle
Play in browser
A command line hacking game
Puzzle
ascii, terminal, ASCII, commandline, Windows, OSX, Linux
Puzzle
"It's Kinda an OS"
Simulation
Play in browser
X.E.N.A
Simulation
It's 2182 and you must use your computer console to defuse the missile!
Puzzle
Fight for liberty and justice.
Puzzle
Use your scanner to hunt the fugitive aliens!
Puzzle
ascii, terminal, ASCII, commandline, Windows, OSX, Linux
Action
Welcome to the ASMRFactory! Type 'help' for more info.
it's all... AN ILLUSION
Interactive Fiction
Game about programming (not real =3)
Strategy
Play in browser
An 80s style hacking text game hiding an anagram puzzle
Puzzle
Play in browser
A game where you fight and buy 'stuff'! My first game. Please report bugs!
Role Playing
retro ascii terminal puzzles
Puzzle
The goal in Clever Discard is to discard all cards onto two discard stacks.
Puzzle
Play in browser
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.
text game about... idk, it's very random lol XD uwu :3
Adventure
A text-based adventure played in the terminal
Simulation
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