Terminal based free open source game inspired by "The Mother of all games" Scorched Earth.

Features

• rendered in terminal
• ASCII graphics (actually few unicode symbols were used)
• procedurally generated world
• terrain destruction
• turn based multiplayer
• open source: https://github.com/zladovan/gorched

Try online

You can try Gorched online on gorched.zladovan.repl.run.

Note that performance in online terminal can be worse than in real terminal !

Installation

General

Download archive for your platform from releases page and unpack it to some directory on your file system.

Linux

If you are using snap just run:

sudo snap install gorched

MacOS

If you are using homebrew just run:

brew install zladovan/tap/gorched

Windows

If you are using scoop run:

scoop bucket add zladovan https://github.com/zladovan/scoop-bucket
scoop install gorched

How to play

Gorched currently has only one mode where two players are playing locally against each other. The goal is to find out correct angle and power to hit the enemy tank. Gameplay is turn based and each player has one attempt per turn. When some player hits the enemy he gains score and game continues in next round with different terrain.

Controls

• ← → change angle of cannon
• SPACE start loading (1st hit) and shoot (2nd hit)
• Ctrl+C exit game
• Ctrl+R restart current round
• Ctrl+N start next round
• S show score
• A show player's attributes
• H show help

When running from browser use just R / N instead of Ctrl+R / Ctrl+N