A list of games which can be played on a Linux console or via SSH. Useful to play silently at work and they are ultralightweight.
Bsd Games ( atc, canfield, adventure, tetris...) . A huge game pack.
Empire. A turn based strategy/conquest game.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead . A zombie survival roguelike http://www.cataclysmdda.com/
Nethack . NOT the typical RPG/roguelike. Its THE roguelike. Only a very few people in the whole Earth have won the game. Will you be the next one?
Slashem . Like Nethack but extended.
Tint . Tint Is Not Tetris.
Omega RPG . Ultra hard RPG for the terminal. Good story with towns, taverns. gyms... awesome game done in ASCII.
Myman . The best pacman clone for the console, by far, with awesome level designs.
Frotz. Text adventure interpreter.
Cavezofphear. A Boulder Dash clone .
Greed. A puzzle game.
Scribble. Scrabble-like .
Gnuchess. A chess game.
GnuGo. Like Gnuchess, but you play Go.
