3 games you can play in the Linux terminal

https://www.howtogeek.com/3-games-you-can-play-in-the-linux-terminal/

MyMan: A simple Pac-Man clone

NetHack: A very text-based rougelike

nudoku: Unlimited Sudoku puzzles

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HelloRoot@lemy.lol · 21 pts · 270d (3 replies)

WHERE THE FUCK IS DWARF FORTRESS

Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 269d (2 replies)

No longer in the terminal. It's been around so long it's evolved, and no longer totally cripples your pc when you generate a world.

HelloRoot@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 269d (1 reply)

afaik you can still run the free version from the website with TEXT mode and ncurses completely in the terminal without a DE (but you have to spoof X).

If not the newest one, then the last one (v47).

Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 269d

Touché. Obviously the author either is an uncultured swine and a dicknosed douche-canoe, or they're a young'n and don't know/appreciate the metal-melting power of DF.

DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 15 pts · 270d

A million variants of "Rogue"...

data1701d@startrek.website · 5 pts · 269d

Personally, Super Star Trek is my favorite terminal game.

refalo@programming.dev · -3 pts · 270d (3 replies)

RetroArch works just fine from the command-line.

cm0002@ttrpg.network · 20 pts · 270d (2 replies)

Lol these are for games the work in the terminal

Or

Does RetroArch now have a TUI‽ Because that would be genuinely cool if it did lmao

refalo@programming.dev · 2 pts · 269d

It uses DRM/KMS to enable OpenGL (and probably Vulkan too) on the console without needing a display server like Xorg or Wayland. Or if that's too blasphemous for you, there is a libcaca driver.

frongt@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 268d

Several emulation programs do actually have a terminal renderer. Impossible to tell what's going on unless you're intimately familiar with the game, but it's neat to see.