On: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?

[rgmerk]

For something that’s not a text adventure (the best of which are great), there’s also nethack.

Be warned, it’s insanely difficult and a massive time suck.

[rollcat → rgmerk]

Or more broadly, rogue-likes.

My favourites are definitely Nethack and DCSS (aka crawl). I would also like to try Cogmind (but it's unfortunately Windows-only), and maybe Dwarf Fortress. Other noteworthy titles are ADOM and Moria/Angband.

There's a lot going on these days in this genre that kinda departs from some of the core ideas of a roguelike, the term "roguelite" is sometimes used. It's a fun rabbit hole to go down into, lots of really good games.

[berenza → rollcat]

there is a large archive of roguelikes available here:

https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z

[bmn__ → rgmerk]

Skip the official/mainline game, go directly to the fork with usability enhancements.

https://github.com/search?q=nethack4

http://nethack4.org

[throwaway019254 → bmn__]

Also Evilhack has a lot of improvements and more interesting gameplay than vanilla Nethack. I would definitely recommend trying it.