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.