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
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
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.
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.
I recommend NetHack
Do visual novels count? They are text-based with images added on top.
Does Radical Dreamers count, or not obscure enough?
You can try any of the still running MUDs, multiple user dungeon
Back in my BBS days I enjoyed Trade Wars quite a bit.
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