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Products that do what Play Zork with your friends via SSH does

1. 1IF
   Invite friends to SSH into your laptop using their GitHub handle▲334

   2017 · gravitational.com

2. 2
   Playwrk: Virtual Private Club for Gamers▲129

   Where Gaming Meets Networking

   2025

3. 3SP
   SSHTron – Play Tron/lightcycle over SSH▲104

   2016 · sshtron.zachlatta.com

4. 4PS
   Play scrabble, chess, checkers, etc with your friends by copying a url▲69

   2012 · breakbase.com

5. 5AS
   A simple SSH VPN client▲113

   2017 · github.com

6. 6ZP
   Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions▲78

   Jan 2026 · zsweep.com

7. 7UB
   Use BIOS ram hacks to make an SSH server for MS-DOS, INT 10 13h OS's▲65

   2014 · github.com

8. 8
   SSHTron▲98

   Multiplayer Tron in your terminal

   2016

9. 9MT
   mgwuSDK, Turn Based Multiplayer SDK▲36

   2013 · makegameswith.us

10. 10SS
    Simstack, SSH escape room for developers▲6

    I built a realistic prod system under heavy pressure where you SSH in and solve real problems. You get your own server (real box) and have to fix various things up under fire. a friend told me it reminded them of DOOM for SREs, another called it a "flight simulator" because you can do anything (and reboot if you crash). someone else said it was like "an escape room for engineers", in that you have to find your own way around an unfamiliar box and solve puzzles. idk, maybe it's fun. try it! how it works: you get two Hetzner servers: a traffic generator (real traffic from NYC taxi data highly…

    2025 · simstack.io

11. 11SA
    S – a tool for ssh like z for cd▲35

    2015 · github.com

12. 12SL
    ssh late.sh - a cozy command-line Clubhouse for computer people▲18

    So first, what are we? A Clubhouse inside the terminal, where people can take a break, chill, chat with others all around the globe, listen to music, play some games, or paint on a live artboard :). ssh late.sh (or use the companion CLI) That's all. No passwords. No OAuth. No accounts. Your SSH key is your identity. Honestly, I've been a little nervous to post this. I wanted the Clubhouse to be something I'm genuinely proud of before sharing, and I think we are finally there :) There is so much here, so I'll really try to focus on the core: - full-scale chat, mentions, rooms, public and…

    Jun 2026 · late.sh

13. 13
    SecurSSH▲57

    SSH access for developers. Secure, European, done right.

    May 2026 · securssh.com

14. 14
    Mosh▲92

    SSH. Reinvented by MIT. Allows roaming, and much more.

    2014

15. 15SA
    ssh and cd get married▲44

    2014 · github.com

16. 16ZT
    Zero Trust SSH (ZSSH)▲5

    2021 · github.com

17. 17VZ
    Voice-z-machine – Enables playing z-machine games via a webservice▲49

    2017 · github.com

18. 18IM
    I made a roguelike game playable over SSH▲6

    Jan 2026 · dev-dungeon.com

19. 19AS
    A simple Go utility to ease deployments via SSH and SCP▲50

    2018 · github.com

20. 20SS
    ssh sshfighter.com▲10

    I've been playing with trying to get the most out of regular terminal (ansi) graphics rendering for an mmorpg game for a bit of fun. Thought that I might take a quick detour and make a streetfighter style game that turned out better than I thought it would. Type "ssh sshfighter.com" in your terminal to play Visit the website https://sshfighter.com to watch replays etc (tv feature is cool) My friends and I have been working on bot models for a bit of fun, you can queue against them if you want to and they have their own leaderboard. look at /bots if you want to make your own.…

    16d ago

21. 21CS
    Cloud Storage with ZFS send and receive over SSH▲59

    2015 · rsync.net

22. 22SD
    SSH Devzat.hackclub.com▲9

    2021 · github.com

23. 23SH
    SSH-hypervisor – like SSH, but each user gets their own microVM▲34

    This is a project I made over the weekend. What if when you SSH'd into a machine, instead of giving you a user login, it would provision a new microVM just for you? It's like a little SimCity for VMs. This turned out to be a lot of fun, and I've wanted to make my own custom SSH server for a while now, with its fancy progress bars and color animations. The hardest part was definitely debugging VM setup, boot, and networking though! Compiling the Linux kernel with all the right configs was difficult. For a while I had issues with silent hangs on boot due to lack of available system entropy, on…

    Sep 2025 · ekzhang.substack.com

24. 24SE
    Serveo–Expose local servers using only SSH▲62

    2017 · serveo.net

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