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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three frames per minute? Yes, François, I would call that pretty bad performance. While I admire your desire to reuse old hardware to build your Linux desktop, I have to say that your new system might ...

I still routinely play Angband. Although now days I'll willingly use tiles instead of ASCII. That game taught me how to use 10-key.