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Products that do what Text adventure for CP/M – Lighthouse of Doom does

1. 1AT
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   2014 · avausadventure.com

2. 2WA
   WrittenRealms – a modern platform for text-based games▲200

   2021 · writtenrealms.com

3. 3AA
   Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D▲182

   2019 · adventurekeep.com

4. 4
   Gridland ▲87

   An adictive roleplaying stacking puzzle

   2015

5. 5TM
   Tiny mobile-friendly interactive fiction game▲106

   2020 · memalign.github.io

6. 6CA
   Caverns and Kobolds – A Text Based RPG in C++▲12

   2018 · github.com

7. 7DA
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   2020 · wheybags.com

8. 8
   Cursortag▲83

   Chatroulette meets Asteroids

   2015

9. 9WC
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   2020 · danieljanus.pl

10. 10AT
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    2019 · jindosh.com

11. 11AT
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    2023 · theabysstalksback.com

12. 12ST
    Survival Thriller Game that uses Echolocation▲41

    2014 · lurking-game.com

13. 13TF
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    2023 · chat.openai.com

14. 14
    Text adventure to learn skills and agents▲5

    First level is entirely browser based. Second level runs inside claude cli and you build a real skill and agent to stay alive in an adrift spaceship

    Aug 2026 · meridian-claude.dogeared.dev

15. 15PD
    Play Doom in ChatGPT▲7

    2023 · chat.openai.com

16. 16AO
    An open-source top-down action-adventure game▲6

    2015 · nicole.express

17. 17CT
    Crown – The Flexible Game Engine▲20

    2017 · github.com

18. 18EA
    eolsh – a text-based game you play at a command prompt▲5

    2019 · eolsh.com

19. 19AT
    A text-based fantasy RPG for iPhone▲10

    2014 · elven.avalancia.com

20. 20AT
    A text adventure game in Haskell▲6

    2015 · github.com

21. 21AR
    A RogueLike demo in 17 languages▲12

    A minimal "@ moving around a hardcoded map" implemented in a bunch of languages, some by me and some contributed by others. A slightly more interesting riff on the Hello World or 99 Bottles of Beer theme. More languages or improvements on existing ones would be nice :) There's a github repo at: https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRL

    2011

22. 22VA
    Verbiage, a Gemini-powered word game▲5

    2025 · verbiage.cc

23. 23CA
    Coffee2D – A simple HTML5 game engine▲14

    2015 · github.com

24. 24DC
    Doublespeak.chat, a text-based AI escape game▲8

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