Does anyone still play text-based games?

Name them

Thats exactly what I thought and the dev said as much too. But nope, nofundo won't allow it

Wasnt there a game that allowed programming in basic on the 3ds?
And nothing came out of it except fun little minigames made by nips

I play era

Corruption of Champions
Trials in Tainted Space
The Company
Adam and Gaia
A Spell for All
Degrees of Lewdity
Perverted Education
Life Choices
Incubus City
Female Agent

Most of em have pictures added, but they're still mostly text

Pretty sure there was least one homebrew exploit possible with smilebasic

Most of them are also unfinished/foreverbeta

Huh.
I dont remember that, could be wrong though

CYOA are cool, although I prefer actual books. Something about the sound of turning the pages. On PC might as well play proper roguelikes.

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I realy enyojed sabers and guns of infinity cyoa. Something about napoleonic era just works for me.

Fair enough. Im a fan of both, actual cyoa have stories that can be followed though which makes them a bit more interesting as a narrative
Proper roguelikes are really fucking fun for gameplay though
Have you tried cogmind?

Occasionally, I've played a large large number of them though and most modern takes on text games are pretty mediocre. I think the art of having to be descriptive because graphics weren't up to snuff for what you wanted to portray has died. Games tend to just not describe things that well.

i'm a slow reader and have trouble visualizing things i read so sometimes these types of games are hard for me. i can visualize stuff just fine but for some reason it's harder when i read.

>Have you tried cogmind?
Haven't even heard of. Looks good, and sci-fi to boot!

Cogmind is very underrated
Im bad at roguelikes but cogmind is worth the money

I'm old, so yes, I played a lot of those games

>played
Whats stopping you now?

How unfinished is it?

do ASCII roguelikes count? or you really just mean text based adventures?

Yes but they have to be porn.

What are some good games that look like pic related here

>unfinished
I never completed the game, im bad
But all of the mechanics are there, and there has never been a moment where Ive thought "I should be able to do X but cant"
I dont remember if its still in early access or not, but it gets semi-regular updates

I think the filename is that game

are there any other games like these?

That game is Incursion, a D&D3E-based roguelike. But it's not very popular, I like it because there are very few D&D roguelikes.

Among more popular and complex ones are Cataclysm DDA and Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode.

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How hard is it to get into this game?

Last one I played was Starmourne, IRE sci-fi MUD.

Yeah yeah I know, IRE. But I played during launch when they didn't have that cash shop faggotry artifact system in yet. I think they added it now though so fuck that game.

I'm talking about CPC adventure games, don't know if they release those kind of games anymore.

I liked SanctuaryRPG recently

I still play CYOAs on my phone from time to time

Incursion? You would definitely benefit from understanding the d20 system; rules are available for free as an Open Game License from the D&D company. In all other aspects it's just like any other rogue-like: you will struggle a bit with the inputs and ASCII, but after a couple of hours you will adapt.

If you mean the second screenshot (Dwarf Fortress), then it's actually not that hard (it's the Fortress Mode that is more difficult to get into, the Adventure Mode is like a traditional roguelike). But still, it has crappy UI/input scheme (but it's the most complex roguelike existing).

If you are completely new to roguelikes, then you should try out more newbie-friendly ones like Tales of Maj'Eyal. Also there should be a general thread in /vg/ about roguelikes, ask there and also read the sticky if there is one.

Sanctuary rpg is my most played game on steam desu
I didnt like the humor, as it relied too much on "randomness"
But its peak text based gameplay. They could remove all of the art and it'd still be fun and worth the time.
The company that made it said they were making a new game many years ago iirc, but theyve released 0 info about it

I meant incursion yeah
Im not new to roguelikes, I just dont know the rules to d&d above the very basics like how armor class works.

I have a few misc bbs door games I play thru dosbox multiple times a week here and there

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Y'all should check out
* Counterfeit Monkey: free, parser-based puzzle in the classic style with a really well-written story, but the real cool bit is the central mechanic: letter modification. Turn a Cast into a Cat, a Glass into a Lass. By Emily Short

*The Cleft of Dimensions: The literal opposite kind of gameplay: an old-school MUD (think MMORPG, but text) based on classic video games.

>actually posts games
Based

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>offhandedly mentions playing a type of game and doesnt mention titles specifically
Not even worth a (You)

Yea Forums isnt old enough for text based games

>No Free Cities: Preg Mod
Government is gonna come arrest me for my excel spreadsheets.

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Hackmud

Explain

What do you recommend is the best way to start for a newbie. I've plated around with Free Cities before but it's confusing and I end up just messing around with the slaves using cheats.

>A lot
If by "a lot" you mean "most" then yes.

/vr/ has invaded

/vr/ doesnt play videogames

Yeah, I play ArmageddonRPI pretty often, it's fun for a MUD.

Is there any game like this (RPG) where I can play as a bard or a dancer and make a living off traveling from city to city and performing?

Yeah, so. ArmageddonRPI, like I just posted. People play as prostitutes, bards, dancers, tribals, ect all the time. Sick bar beats get you fat dosh, and noblemen and women love music-makers.

Definitely no MUDs, last time I played one an admin teleported to my character and raped it.

Anchorhead anyone?
Drawing your own maps is shomehow comfy.
Just found it on steam and it's not free to my surprise but if you're not a idiot you can get it officialy for free.

It's roleplay-enforced, not HellMOO, you meme. If an admin did that, they'd get fucking banned so god damn fast the entire god damn game would be so disgustingly furious their entire world would be rocked and their soul would be devoured.
It's a game based on the Dark Sun module of DnD, low-tech, no metal, desert world.

I'll look into it.
Multiplayer roleplaying games just make me uncomfortable, every time I play one I go through huge lengths to avoid people and if someone says “greetings traveler” to me I fucking panic and log off.
Gay as fuck but I dunno.

You can just live in the wild like a hermit and murder people indiscriminately, there's even a 'class' (skillset, essentially) called Raider that fully supports it.

But I wanna fulfill my craving of dancing for money

I played Galatea for the first time yesterday
A great idea but desu it had a huge flaw which is that there is never a reason for you to care about her when she sulks and mopes that much