Candy Box 2 VS Godville

Candy Box 2 -- there is more to this than meets the eye: https://candybox2.github.io/. Source: 11 months ago

Looking as an outsider you will see a bunch of weird-ass ASCII art that doesn't even look that good compared to, say, Candy Box, while as the actual player you're actually wrestling an eldritch beast made of deadly gas into the ground as you pulp it with a dead giant's body. Source: over 1 year ago

Not really like the games you mentioned but Candy Box 2, A Dark Room, and Kittens Game are some of the best browser-based idle games ever. Source: over 1 year ago

Not Candy Box or Candy Box 2, was it? Dubious guess but it does keep coming up. Source: over 1 year ago

I appreciate anyone suggesting CC Classic, but since I'd expect a JS Console minigame to be text-based, then maybe it should be more like Candybox2 (https://candybox2.github.io/ which if I'm not mistaken was part of the inspriation for CC!). Source: over 1 year ago

I believe https://godvillegame.com/ is very close to what you are aiming at. And they have pre-moderation that takes months (that is, your game has to have that much time). But apart from that I was enjoying this game for around 4 years and creating content was maybe the most fun part of it, even as only 2-5% of the creations were accepted. Source: over 2 years ago

Godville (https://godvillegame.com) seems inspired by it, but taken to 11. You can play as actively as you want, but you can also close the tab and not return for years, and your character will happily quest/level up/buy/sell/eat/fish/heal/revive/change guilds/get drunk/etc. On its own. IIRC it even allows spending money if that's your thing. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago