Recommended Terminal Games?

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Wasn’t sure which subforum/topic this was best posted under, but I figured the people most likely to have an answer to this question frequent this subforum more. So!

I want to play some games in my terminal, in part to get more comfortable with it and in part to get more use out of it. I just think it’s neat! I’m vaguely familiar with NetHack and Solitaire TUI, both of which I intend to try out, but that’s about it.

Do you guys have any more suggestions of games I could try out that run in the terminal? I guess I prefer “quick”/mini games like solitaire and Tetris, but I am absolutely willing to learn and play something lengthier (Like NetHack… can be. In theory.) Really, “can run in the terminal” and (preferably) “does not require I install additional libraries to run” are what I mostly care about.

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Rogue is still good, and widely considered a casual game now. For that matter, anything else from the bsd-games collection. I played gomoku quite a bit for a while. Another that springs to mind is ninvaders. For that matter, piu-piu-SH is a visually impressive side-scrolling shoot’em up written in Bash. And of course thousands of text adventures.

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Does your distribution provide the bsdgames package? It has a bunch of little terminal games. Colossal Cave Adventure is one of them, as adventure. There’s also a Star Trek themed game called trek.

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bsdgames did not come pre-installed, but installing it was simple! Unfortunately I’m seeing different lists online for what games are bundled in. So I’ll have to keep playing with it to see what I got. But a bundled package like this is perfect for me.

@nosycat – will look into these as well!

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If you’re on Debian and have the non-free repository enabled, rogue is in bsdgames-nonfree. Other distributions probably package bsdgames differently, which might be why you see conflicting information online.

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Yeah I’m on Kubuntu for the time being. I just have plain bsdgamesinstalled, as it is what I found. I’ll have to keep playing with it; tetris isn’t included, nor was Rogue, but trek was.

I may uninstall bsdgames and install basgames-nonfree in its place :]

EDIT: this is what I ended up doing ^^

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You can actually install both. Adventure is worth a try, IMO.

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