I’ve always admired ASCII graphics, mainly due to my predilection towards retro gaming and large pixels in general. Just as a game like Portal twists your ideas of space and makes you think ...

The 17-year-old classic Dwarf Fortress is considered a pioneer in gaming through its massive, highly interactive world, but it's a tough sell to modern gamers with its ASCII graphics and its absence ...

Action RPG Brut@l, which had been previously only been announced for PS4, is bringing its ASCII-dungeon crawler aesthetic to PC, starting with a Steam Greenlight campaign. Brut@l allows players to ...

This title and all in its series has a total of 5,000 Steam Achievements. However, this game falls into a genre of game known as "Achievement spam:" each of these Achievements are unlocked by trivial, ...

This title and all in its series has a total of 5,000 Steam Achievements. However, this game falls into a genre of game known as "Achievement spam:" each of these Achievements are unlocked by trivial, ...

Lucky Peach is the new text-based ASCII game from Candy Box developer Aniwey. it's an advergame that has launched alongside a food and travel journal. Brenna recently wrote a neat feature on Candy Box ...

If you just can’t bear to pick up another game with classical pixel graphics, we suggest going back even further to the age of ASCII art for upcoming title Stone Story RPG. Thanks to a new trailer ...

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. A resourceful developer has built a browser-based online 3D game that is entirely rendered in text — and it also has a multiplayer mode. Yes, you heard ...

I learned to read by playing Rogue. Some of my first reading words were things like quaff, emu, and mace. A capital letter T was the scariest letter. I skipped to Zangband 2.4 and played it a tonne in ...