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GamesGNU/Linux Click here for manuals, magazines, tutorials, and etc. I am not listing Steam-required (or similar) games. Long live SDL! And yes, this page is being worked on |
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| Title | Description | Interface Type |
| A bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game in ASCII-ART | ||
| Play 2009 RuneScape offline; maintained exclusively by volunteers and not by the 2009scape team; click here for older alternative | ||
| A roguelike game of Cowboy Knights and Lurking Horror | ||
| A turn-based space strategy game written in Python that uses curses for its display | ||
| Ancient Domains of Mystery. ADOM is a roguelike game which means that it is a single-user game featuring the exploration of a dungeon complex (and in the case of ADOM a few other games of this genre: the exploration of a large wilderness area with villages and many special locations). You control a fictional character described by race, class, attributes, skills, and equipment. This fictional character is trying to achieve a specific goal (see below) and succeed in a difficult quest. To fulfill the quest, you have to explore previously undiscovered tunnels and dungeons, fight hideous monsters, uncover long forgotten secrets, and find treasures of all kind. | ||
| An exploration, text-adventure game; comes from the 'bsd-games' package; also see Wikipedia; Play: https://grack.com/demos/adventure/ |
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| Play many different solitaire games | ||
| A tactical, roguelike game, inspired by the "Aliens" movie | ||
| Another good variant of the "Space Invaders" game | ||
| A free, single-player dungeon exploration game | ||
| A curses mode minesweeper solvable without guessing, and the only with von Neumann neighbourhoods; click here for screencast; Play: ssh play@anonymine-demo.oskog97.com -p 2222 |
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| Ambassador of Pain (aop). A very nice and challenging arcade game; click here for screencast | ||
| See also Wikipedia | ||
| Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986; this version was written on Bash; see also Wikipedia; click here for screencast | ||
| Arkanoid game written in Sed | ||
| Arkanoid game written in Python | ||
| Quiz on simple arithmetic | ||
| An ASCII-art game like Space Invaders Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| ASCII Pacman is a simple clone of the Pacman game. It features color and animation using only the curses library. | ||
| ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game | ||
| An ASCII art game about ski jumping; click here for screencast | ||
| A free space combat/exploration/trading game | ||
| A FREE, multiplayer, first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine | ||
| An ncurses based game that features two little ships on each side of the screen shooting each other | ||
| Air traffic controller game; comes from the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| roguelike game with easy ADOM-like user interface | ||
| A backgammon game; you can play against the computer; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris) | ||
| Uses character-cell graphics with a visual point-and-shoot interface | ||
| A tropical adventure game; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris) | ||
| The game Beasts is a Linux version of the old DOS game called Beast; see Wikipedia | ||
| A highly conceptual game in which you interact with abstract concepts and mathematical entities as if they were tangible. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| Play Billards | ||
| A black-jack card game; Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| A block-based puzzle game | ||
| The Blue Moon card solitaire | ||
| Word search game; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| This game is the same as the old Blitz16 game on Commodore 16/Plus 4, written by Simon Taylor | ||
| 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; see Wikipedia | ||
| Python bowling game using the Blessed terminal library; click here for screencast | ||
| A nice version of the mastermind game | ||
| Brogue is a roguelike game | ||
| Battleships game; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| The solitaire card game canfield; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| A multi-player card game, written by Hero; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| A boulder dash / digger like game for console using ncurses | ||
| A Zombie Survival roguelike | ||
| Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest | ||
| An implementation of the classic Battleship game in C++. Includes a server program, and multiple different client programs. The server program wait's until two client program connected to start a game. The server dictates the rules of the game | ||
| A set of sliding-block puzzles | ||
| A two-player board game, written by Alexi; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| Chess implemented in sed utility; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| A highly unusual "infinite" adventure game written by Chris Newall | ||
| A challenging puzzle game | ||
| Scrolling space shooter | ||
| Curses implementation of the laser board game Khet; Play: ssh ckhet@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: ckhet |
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| Color Lines clone in console | ||
| Minesweeper | ||
| Another Nibbles game with good and smooth animations | ||
| 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 | ||
| A two-player slot game, written by Sarac; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| The Connect4 game using ncurses C library | ||
| A real-time, multi-player space warfare game; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| A programming game created by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney in which two or more battle programs (called “warriorsâ€) compete for control of a virtual computer | ||
| CPat is probably the best card game for the Linux console; it is a collection of many solitaire/patience games from the most famous to less known games | ||
| One of the best games for the Linux console | ||
| The card game cribbage; it is included with the 'bsd-games' package | ||
| Escape From The Crypt | ||
| Another version of the tetris game | ||
| A landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine | ||
| A free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube FPS | ||
| A fast-paced action strategy game for Linux originally implemented using ncurses user interface | ||
| A game with a hacking atmosphere | ||
| Dots and Boxes game | ||
| A roguelike "unmake" of the popular Blizzard game Diablo | ||
| DoomRL (Doom, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular FPS game Doom by ID Software | ||
| Dopewars drug dealing game; Grab Linux-ified version config file (hidden) | ||
| A command line solitaire card game | ||
| A turn based command line fighting game for Windows and Unix-like systems | ||
| A text-based roguelike game | ||
| A single-player fantasy game | ||
| Actually, it is not a game but a text editor; it includes a bunch of text games like chess, sokoban, pong etc | ||
| A roguelike game | ||
| A puzzle game where items have to be collected in the right order | ||
| Another variant of Angband | ||
| Another minesweeper-style game | ||
| An open source, 2D action role-playing game; similar to Diablo | ||
| This is a console (ncurses) version of the popular and addictive solitaire game. Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| This is a console (ncurses) version of the popular and addictive solitaire game. Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| Rock out with your keyboard; a "Guitar Hero" clone of sorts | ||
| A very nice roguelike game with an entertaining atmosphere | ||
| Find the lost lifeboats from an interstellar liner. | ||
| GearHead is the first roguelike to explore the world of (giant robots) | ||
| Another variant of the snake game with a smooth movement | ||
| GNU Chess is a chess-playing program. Play: telnet freechess.org 5000 (login guest) |
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| GNU Go is a free program that plays the game of Go | ||
| 3D Rubik's cube game | ||
| GNUSki is an open source clone of Skifree, the old Windows game | ||
| A multiplayer galactic game | ||
| 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. | ||
| Gomoku is a two player 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. See also wikipedia. | ||
| Goblin Hack is a roguelike opengl-based smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics game | ||
| An free/opensource casino text-console game with 5 slot machines, 3 roulette tables including russian roulette, 2 dice games, a bank and stock market. | ||
| Grand Digital Clock (curses) | ||
| A puzzle game with numbers. You must remove as many numbers as you can according to the rules. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| Connect to a Monopd server (Monopoly) | ||
| Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| The Hack of Life is a roguelike game based on Conway's "Game of Life" | ||
| A nice roguelike game (variant of angband). | ||
| Hamurabi is a 1969 text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. Its name is a shortening of Hammurabi, reduced to fit an eight-character limit. See also wikipedia. | ||
| Computer version of the game hangman. It's a BSD game; click here for screencast | ||
| Hellband is a roguelike game in which you descend through the nine circles of Hell and find an even more dangerous Hell beyond the city of Dis. | ||
| Hinversi is a implementation of Reversi (a.k.a. Othello), a board game. | ||
| The puzzle game of "HuaRongDao" | ||
| 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. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| A fork of BSD hunt with colour and realtime processing Play: ssh hunt@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: kalte |
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| A nice and easy roguelike game. | ||
| 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. | ||
| A 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. Play: ssh intricacy@sshgames.thegonz.net; password: intricacy |
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| Ambitious dungeon simulator with roguelike elements. | ||
| Roguelike in which your commands are enacted after a few turns' delay. | ||
| Exploring the caverns of Larn. It's a BSD game. | ||
| A ball-and-paddle game with nice graphics | ||
| Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) is a text-based online role-playing game. | ||
| a multi-player card game, written by Hero | ||
| Lexter is a real-time word puzzle for text terminals. Arrange the falling letters into words to score points. | ||
| This is a very elaborated game where you have to fight with your friends against conservative laws. | ||
| Implementation of the simple board game called Mancala. | ||
| This is a multiplayer variant of angband. | ||
| telnet on twenex.org | ||
| Dr. Mario or BUGS is a clone of Nentendo's Dr. Mario; well, sort of. | ||
| A simple version of the Mastermind game. | ||
| Space ascii war game. | ||
| This is a multiplayer variant of angband. | ||
| Go is an ancient oriental strategy game based on the capturing of territory. | ||
| Micro Snake is based on a simple snake game by Simon Huggins. | ||
| A racing card game in BSD games based on the Parker Brothers game Mille Bornes. It's a BSD game. | ||
| multiplayer (and single player) infinite-world block sandbox | ||
| A curses-based game where you must defend cities from missile attack; it is essentially a clone of Atari's "Missile Command" (with some minor enhancements) for terminals, and has colour and sound. | ||
| Monopoly game. It's a BSD game. | ||
| A sort of monopoly game. At least two players are needed. | ||
| Moo (a.k.a. Mastermind) supervisor and a very powerful Moo player. | ||
| Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface. | ||
| The game is set in Moria and the goal is to kill off the balrog. | ||
| A simple snake game written in C using the ncurses library. | ||
| Mutant Aliens! sees a spaceship 'dock safely' into the forest of a hostile alien world. | ||
| MyMan is a video game for color and monochrome text terminals in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man. | ||
| n2048 is a console-based game based on the highly addictive sliding puzzle 2048. Slide the tiles together to combine them, until you reach the highest one. | ||
| Conway's Game of Life in C++ using ncurses. | ||
| NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. | ||
| This is netris, a networked version of t*tris. It allows head to head two player games via a network. | ||
| netToe is a Tic Tac Toe-like game for the Unix consoles written in C using UNIX sockets. | ||
| Nibbles is a remake of the classic Snake/Nibbles game in ncurses. | ||
| nInvaders is a Space Invaders clone based on ncurses for ASCII output. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| 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. | ||
| nPush is a logic game similar to Sokoban and Boulder Dash. | ||
| Classic snake game on the terminal. | ||
| A very elaborated sudoku game. | ||
| A Sudoku game for the console. | ||
| ncurses based sudoku game | ||
| okiworld is a host-to-host console-based strategy game. | ||
| Oldrunner is a remake of Broderbund’s Loderunner which contains the 150 original game levels. It is written in C and has a text-based interface. | ||
| omega is a complex rogue-style game of dungeon exploration. | ||
| A two-player board game, written by Unk; Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| An aggressive 3D Noughts & Crosses player, developed in 1976. The player incorporates the knowledge of the three-in-a-plane forcing patterns and quite spontaneously discovered that plane-forks are deadlier than one would have thought. It can offer suggestions and can be made to play against itself. | ||
| It's a simple and ASCII version, so no fun (and IA is very stupid)... | ||
| Pacman for Console. | ||
| A simple version of the famous pacman game written in Python. Play: ssh pacman:pacman@antimirov.net |
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| Jump pegs to eliminate them | ||
| Another tetris clone. | ||
| An interterminal fantasy game. It's a BSD game. | ||
| A three-player card game, written by Sarac. Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| Small ASCII puzzle game. | ||
| A multi-player five-card draw, written by Lucifer Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| An old and very poor version of the old pong game. | ||
| Remake of the old arcade classic in OpenGL | ||
| Portile is a 2D, tile-based take on narbacular drop. | ||
| Rubik's cube game | ||
| Unjumble letters | ||
| A roguelike written in Python; the display is smooth. | ||
| Python curses homage to Threes! | ||
| pytris is a two-player networked console Tetris clone written in Python/Pyncurses. | ||
| Play Go online and against computer | ||
| A fast-pace, arena style, Sci-Fi, first person shooter | ||
| A good version of the othello/reversi game written in the Lisp langugage. | ||
| Simple ASCII terminal hexagonal map roguelike written in Rust. Screencast Play: ssh rhex:rhex123@rhex.dpc.pw |
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| Yet another zen simulation. | ||
| Fight off villainous robots. It's a BSD game. Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| Exploring The Dungeons of Doom. It's a BSD game. Screencast Play: telnet or ssh on sdf.org |
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| Russian roulette; Screencast | ||
| The RuneScape UNIX client | ||
| Multi-user wooden ships and iron men. It's a BSD game. | ||
| a two-to-four-player board game, written by Unk Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| Scrap is an easy to play roguelike game. | ||
| 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. | ||
| A version of the classical battleships game; Screencast | ||
| An online virtual world | ||
| Another clone of the tetris game. | ||
| a four-player card game, written by Lucifer Play: telnet mud.darkerrealms.org 2000 |
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| An open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler with randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use. | ||
| Japanese chess. Alt link | ||
| SSHTron is a multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH. Play: ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com |
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| A racing game with rally style of driving, mostly on gravel | ||
| A classic 2D platform game similar to Mario | ||
| A kart racing game similar to MarioKart but with FOSS mascots | ||
| Clear the screen by removing groups of colored and shaped tiles | ||
| A first-person shooter game focused on instagib deathmatch and capture-the-flag gameplay as well as cooperative in-game map editing | ||
| A free, first-person, survival-horror game that uses GZDoom as the engine; you have an item inventory and can combine items to create weapons; the environment and monsters are all 3D rather than the typical 2.5D; grab the "Retro" version if you have an older computer; installation via flatpak is the easiest way | ||
| A tactical-teamplay oriented, modern-world combat simulation modification for the Quake III, Enemy Territory and Call of Duty 4 engines | ||
| Chess Game; use pgn2web to convert saved games to an HTML file (uses JavaScript) | ||
| A Nexius fork; a free and open-source Sci-Fi first-person shooter video game | ||
GNU/Linux Games |
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Command-line |
Game Console Tools |
List below (as of 2019-04-15) pulled from: https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-ttygames |
PlayStationNote: You will need a soft-modded PS2 for the following to work... ELF files listed in this section are for running on a PlayStation-related system |