A Dark Room is awesome. It's also what got my kids hooked on programming once they learned they could use a browser's developer console to write JavaScript to change various in-game variables.
Edit: A Dark Room isn't strictly a text-based game in the sense where there is much typing on a keyboard. It's more a point-and-click text-heavy game. But it still feels very much in the spirit of a classic text-based (typing) game.
A Dark Room is awesome. It's also what got my kids hooked on programming once they learned they could use a browser's developer console to write JavaScript to change various in-game variables.
Edit: A Dark Room isn't strictly a text-based game in the sense where there is much typing on a keyboard. It's more a point-and-click text-heavy game. But it still feels very much in the spirit of a classic text-based (typing) game.
[1]: https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/