I was going to recommend The Great Machine: A Fragment by Jonas Kyratzes (writer for The Eternal Cylinder and The Talos Principle, if you’ve heard of those), but it looks like it’s not on his website anymore :( It’s probably been close to 20 years since I played it, but I remember enjoying it. It’s about being a soldier in a war.
OK, but… Does anyone have recommendations for obscure text-based games? Sounds rad tbh
West of House. You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
Start pulling the lumber off the house to build a fortnite tower into the sky so I can see further.
You’ve been eaten by a Grue.
You can try any of the still running MUDs, multiple user dungeon
I recommend NetHack
I was going to recommend The Great Machine: A Fragment by Jonas Kyratzes (writer for The Eternal Cylinder and The Talos Principle, if you’ve heard of those), but it looks like it’s not on his website anymore :( It’s probably been close to 20 years since I played it, but I remember enjoying it. It’s about being a soldier in a war.
Gotchu fam
Holy shit, nice! Time to go back down the rabbit hole
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If you count ASCII graphics as text-based games you could play CDDA. Better requirement is games that could be played over an SSH session.
Back in my BBS days I enjoyed Trade Wars quite a bit.
Does Radical Dreamers count, or not obscure enough?
Do visual novels count? They are text-based with images added on top.