The Door Of Redemption
When you wake up in a dungeon full of peculiar smell, someone tells you: you must find a way to escape from this dungeon, and be careful, you are…
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Games like #!/bin/bash
If #!/bin/bash scratched a retro and minimalist itch for you, keep reading. Give these games a try when the craving hits.
⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
92% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFreeconsole.log
A terminal-style text adventure. Mix classic commands like look and take with real Unix commands (ls, cd, cat) and uncover, across 8 chapters and 4 endings, whether you are real or just code that believes it is.
Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99OS:Path
Small but tricky indie game to spend your evening on playing. You'll have to determine the cause of a program's critical error and restore its modules by playing mini games and solving puzzles while using the console.
Retro, Minimalist, Relaxing
91% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$3.99git gud
A command-line puzzle game where you solve Git word problems by typing real Git commands. From beginner basics to advanced rebasing, master 100 levels of version control challenges and become a Git legend, one commit at a time.
Minimalist, Relaxing
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$2.99CHAQS
CHAQS is an instructive CTF (Capture The Flag) game that performs the basic functions of an operating system. While it meets your expectations from an operating system to a certain extent with the applications it contains, CHAQS progresses in the direction of more challenges in terms of gameplay.
76% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$9.90> Terminal
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine. You are Tera, alone in your terminal window on a cold Illinois night. Your identity is lost, embedded somewhere within a haunted computer. Its code is a prison, but it's also your escape.
Minimalist, Story-driven, Surreal
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$5Run TavernQuest
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
Retro, Funny, Story-driven
93% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Terminal ESC
NO DOCS. NO TUTORIAL. NO ESCAPE. Tackle an evolving spectrum of puzzles within a simulated computer system using only terminal commands. Inspired by a bad day with a package manager.
Retro, Minimalist, Funny
100% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Hack RUN
Ever wanted to be a hacker? Hack your way into the heart of a mysterious organization to uncover their secrets. Hack RUN® is a game which uses 'old school' command prompts (like DOS or UNIX) that simulate a real operating system. Learn the commands of each system to help you navigate through your adventure.
Retro, Minimalist, Story-driven
84% of 240 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1FreeMu Complex
Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...
Retro, Funny, Story-driven
79% of 192 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Crossroad OS
Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Adventure through its decaying programs, solve puzzles, collect items and meet strange creatures.
Retro, Relaxing, Funny
98% of 303 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Chatventures
chatventures is a text-adventure MMORPG. you travel through a fantasy world where you interact with every thing through text commands such as "punch" and "check". each area is a different chatroom!
Retro, Minimalist, Funny
91% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Cheaper than #!/bin/bash
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Do you ever lay awake at night thinking about Zero Cool wearing the dress?
91% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Cleansuit
Cleansuit is a retro-style graphical text adventure game where you must find creative ways to survive a mysterious serial killer's assault on your…
100% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$1.47
Internal Storm
This game let you dive into the nostalgia atmosphere of the old-school text-based PC games. You’ll have only few commands to use.
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Bread
Bread is a fun and simple clicker game where your goal is to click on a loaf of bread as many times as possible!
82% of 39 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Console Space
You are the captain aboard a starship. Make decisions in the terminal's text logs: from repairing the reactor to moral dilemmas that irreversibly…
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.59
Yet Another Hero Story
Yet Another Hero Story is a medieval point-and-click adventure game set in a fantasy cartoon world.
80% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$1.91
Progress Bar Simulator
Ever wanted to accelerate the progress bar of your download, slow installation, Windows update or just to kill some time until something else has…
86% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Farnham Fables
When Naigye and her niece Cally visit the castle, a surprise encounter with King Farnham leads to a short story about his three sons visiting a…
73% of 171 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.99
Stories Untold
Four short horror stories in one retro package, starting with a text adventure on an old computer.
86% of 4,413 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like #!/bin/bash
Tall Trails
A chill exploration game where EVERYTHING goes in the boot! You're Alp, a lil' golem on a quest to find his purpose.
99% of 703 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Run TavernQuest
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE.
93% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Crossroad OS
Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Adventure through its decaying programs, solve puzzles, collect items and meet strange…
98% of 303 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
MainFrames
MainFrames invites you to meet Floppy and to browse a clever and charming platformer that plays out entirely within the windows and desktop of a PC…
88% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$3.89
Stone Story RPG
Equip your hero, brew potions at the right moment, and watch a dark adventure unfold one symbol at a time.
90% of 898 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
StarOS
Tired of only seeing text on your personal computer? Get ready to make the leap to the graphic dimension with this new OS, the future is now!
93% of 121 Steam reviews are positiveFree
High Entropy: Challenges
Clear 15 levels of robots, locks and hidden objectives, using stealth, gunfire or a command line, and chase a secret ending.
95% of 1,279 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Friendly Fire
A short, chatty 2D platform adventure about saving a magical world from an unknown destiny.
94% of 1,042 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Progressbar95
Fill progress bars, swat pop-ups and unlock dozens of old systems in a funny retro tribute to 90s computing.
96% of 3,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
Outcore: Desktop Adventure
Solve puzzles on your own desktop to help a lost pixel girl remember who she is, in a short, funny story that breaks the fourth wall.
97% of 18,551 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26Free
Lair of the Clockwork God
A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one!
92% of 665 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Pinecone Game
Welcome to Pinecone Game, where you can plunge into the wonderful world of throwing pinecones into a well!
83% of 106 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest games like #!/bin/bash
The Pasture
You are a mouse cursor, summoned by an entity called The Shepherd into a simulation drawn entirely in ASCII text.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
> Terminal
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$5
Upstairs
A short classic point-and-click adventure with a verb-based interface and dialogue choices, where you explore a strange building, meet unsettling…
92% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
92% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Run TavernQuest
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE.
93% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Tall Trails
A chill exploration game where EVERYTHING goes in the boot! You're Alp, a lil' golem on a quest to find his purpose.
99% of 703 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Benny Bash
Survive this horror/puzzle adventure. Uncover the secrets of a cursed video game from the '80s while a malevolent entity hunts you.
78% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
git gud
A command-line puzzle game where you solve Git word problems by typing real Git commands.
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
MainFrames
MainFrames invites you to meet Floppy and to browse a clever and charming platformer that plays out entirely within the windows and desktop of a PC…
88% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$3.89
Encounter: A 8-Bit Noir Adventure...
Race against time to save a kidnapped teen in 2 hours! Play as a cunning PI, diving into a thrilling mystery.
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Short Bread Game
The Short Bread Game is a cozy platformer where you help a piece of bread get to the bakery for breakfast.
71% of 34 Steam reviews are positiveFree