ArxLibertatis VS textbased-dungeoncrawler

Otherwise there's Arx Fatalis which is pretty much a spiritual sequel to Ultima Underworld. The game is 21 years old, but with Arx Libertatis installed on top it still holds up really well.

Worth mentioning to get the Arx Libertatis engine.

Arx Libertatis - a cross-platform port of Arx Fatalis

Are you using Arx Libertatis? If not, you should, because that will solve that.

Just a note: you can get Arx Fatalis for free by downloading the demo on Steam and installing [Arx Libertatis](https://arx-libertatis.org/], a cross-platform port of Arx. It will run natively on the Steam Deck without Proton and the restrictions in the demo will not be there.

link to said patch

I love all of these games. One note, though: In order for Arx Fatalis to run you'll need to install the Arx Libertatis mod/fix: https://arx-libertatis.org/

Arx Fatalis (play with Arx Libertatisfan patch)

To expand with some examples: my text-based game uses some colours in a way I think is nice (but you may have slightly different needs for your game). Basically I have a "Logger" class which adds some filler for common things needed when writing text to the console, and has constants defined for the colour codes at the top of the cpp, first by the name of the colour then by the kind of thing I want (e.g. error colour etc). Then code that wants to use it can add in references to the colour(s) it needs, and ends the line with the ResetColour if it used colours.