There was a post on lemmy a couple of weeks ago about an old, hard, I think text based game. I wanted to look it up but forgot the name and I can’t seem to find it anymore. Any help with this would be really appreciated.

Edit: I don’t think it’s on the list of text based games on Wikipedia. I’ve added a comment with some meagre details I can remember

The post referred to it being something they always went back to and it being a lightweight game (maybe from the 90s)

I found it!!! Nethack is what I was looking for. Not text based but ascii. Sorry for the super vague question. It was mentioned in passing on some forum talking about ascii/text-based games.

The post I was referring to: https://lemmy.world/post/1570921

  • Corr@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Okay definitely valid about the lack of details… The only thing I can really remember about it was it being very punishing, and near impossible without a guide of some sort.

    I feel like there maybe have been mention of crafting and/or colony management. I’ll see if I can find more details than this

      • Corr@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        No, it’s called nethack! There isn’t any colony management as far as I know tho. I was mistaken in that