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[Medicine Man]

I'm looking for some free roaming ASCII games. I already know ADOM and IVAN

[Virtz]

Why would you want things specifically in ASCII? For that matter, IVAN isn't in ASCII.

Anyway, Gearhead comes with both an ASCII version and a (rather bad looking) graphical version.

[Deon]

ToME. Angband. There're some nice games on T-Engine too.

P.S. And of course "Prospector".  http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=34943.0

[Medicine Man]

I'm looking for some free roaming turn based games (By turn based I mean like Nethack or Ivan turn based)

[Muz]

I'm looking for some free roaming ASCII games. I already know ADOM and IVAN

Do you mean roguelikes or ASCII? You said IVAN, so I think you want roguelikes.

Dungeon Crawl is good.

[Medicine Man]

I'm looking for some free roaming ASCII games. I already know ADOM and IVAN

Do you mean roguelikes or ASCII? You said IVAN, so I think you want roguelikes.

Dungeon Crawl is good.

Free roaming. Not stuck in a single dungeon for the entire game. IVAN contains multiple places.

[3]

Gearhead, as mentioned previously.

[olemars]

There's oft-overlooked Legerdemain. It's not random like nethack, but it has a huge overworld, storyline, and plenty of NPC's.

[Antioch]

I'm looking for some free roaming ASCII games. I already know ADOM and IVAN

pfffff, graphics fanboy.

[Frumple]

http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=List_of_roguelikes_by_name 

Obviously, you could try checking out the curses stuff here on Bay12. There's at least one neat thing there, heh, some kinda' RTS-type whazdoodle I don't remember the name of.

There's more stuff out there, but, to be honest, there doesn't seem to be much quality ASCII work outside the roguelike arena. I've noticed some shooter games that seemed alright, but that was about it, at least from the last decade.

There's quite a bit of full-text (if not necessarily ASCII; ANSI and junk, etc.) stuff when you go further back, though, to the DOS-and-earlier era. Good luck finding the good stuff from there, though; to borrow a quote from who-knows-where, looking for a good game in that mess is "like looking for a needle in a needle stack, only the whole thing's covered in [crap] and everything is on fire."

[Thexor]

Hmm, an ASCII-based game wherein you can explore an entire world instead of being confined to a single dungeon... may I make a suggestion? 


_{Sorry, someone had to do it!}

[Jiharo]

I tried out Cataclysm recently and it looks fun for version 0.0.0a.
Also, some variants of Angband have "wilderness" and multiply towns/dungeons. There's  TOME(already mentioned), Zangband, FAngband and probably others.

[BigD145]

http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=List_of_roguelikes_by_name

How many of those, other than DF, have crafting and/or building?

[Roundabout Lout]

Try Nazghul. Large, open world, turn based. Tiles instead of Ascii. Actually resembles one of the older Ultimas.

http://myweb.cableone.net/gmcnutt/nazghul.html

Oh, it's also party based

[Ringmaster]

I tried out Cataclysm recently and it looks fun for version 0.0.0a.
Also, some variants of Angband have "wilderness" and multiply towns/dungeons. There's  TOME(already mentioned), Zangband, FAngband and probably others.

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Cataclysm looks extremely interesting, but I'm having difficulty obtaining it. How do I get the source to compile?

Back on topic: UnRealWorld, while there are no ASCII graphics, it is considered a Roguelike. It is free-roaming and has a huge item crafting system.