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The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
A tower defense game based on an alternative historical timeline where the Islamic State takes over all of the Middle East and North Africa in the year 2020, the user playing as a stationary NATO machine-gun operator having to kill as many Islamic State militants on ground and sea with the player going through levels of real life areas ...
Text games, text-based games, or command-line games are video games which exclusively use a fixed-width character display mode. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Strictly speaking, text-based means employing an encoding system of characters designed to be printable as text data. [1]: 54 As most computers only read binary code, encoding formats are typically written in such, where a bit is the smallest unit of data that has two possible values and each combination of bits represents a byte.
Tower Unite is the standalone version of GMod Tower by Pixeltail Games, which was a mod for Garry's Mod. Garry's Mod, in turn, was a mod for Half-Life 2. Tremulous: Quake III Arena: 2005 August 11 2006 March 31 Inspired by the Quake II modification Gloom, which also features alien vs human teams with distinct user classes.
A reviewer for Next Generation scored the compilation a perfect five out of five stars. He praised the "functionally comprehensive" selection of Infocom games and the six Interactive Fiction Competition games, estimated the total playtime at 1,200 hours minimum, and said the gameplay "represents the pinnacle of well written, interactive fiction."
I am looking for the name of an IF text-based non graphic game my parents and I played on a DOS computer in the 1980s. The first sentence was something like, “You see a sleeping unicorn.” It only allowed two word responses. You had to find four different colored keys to four kingdoms.
Visual novels are distinguished from other game types by their generally minimal gameplay. Typically the majority of player interaction is limited to clicking to keep the text, graphics and sound moving as if they were turning a page (many recent games offer "play" or "fast-forward" toggles that make this unnecessary), while making narrative choices along the way.