Relive the great adventure… this time in the terminal realm!

• Progress Quest site: http://progressquest.com/
• Online version: http://progressquest.com/play/
• Original version: https://bitbucket.org/grumdrig/pq

• Faithful port of the game logic
• Saves (with backups) to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pqcli/save.dat
• Terminal interface that comes in 2 flavors:
  • Rich and colorful (--curses, default)
  • Minimal, suitable for raw grind (--basic)
• Ideal to run on your server

Curses interface:

Basic interface:

If you have Python 3.7, just run pip install --user pqcli and you're good to go! Then type pqcli to run the game.

In case if you want to use the git version, the process is just a bit more complex:

$ git clone https://github.com/rr-/pq-cli.git
$ cd pq-cli
$ pip install --user .

The repository includes a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml that run the game with --basic and keep save data in a persistent named volume.

There is no registry pipeline required for this setup: build locally, then run with Compose.

# Build image locally from the Dockerfile
docker compose build

# First run (interactive): create your character in the shared save volume
docker compose run --rm pqcli-init

# Later runs on a server (detached, default save slot 1):
docker compose up -d pqcli

# List existing saves in the same volume:
docker compose run --rm pqcli-init pqcli --basic --list-saves

# Change detached slot if needed (example: slot 2):
PQCLI_SAVE_SLOT=2 docker compose up -d pqcli

# Follow logs / stop detached container:
docker compose logs -f pqcli
docker compose stop pqcli

On first run, if no save data exists in the mounted volume, pqcli will automatically launch an interactive character-creation bootstrap in CLI mode before starting the normal interface.

For server usage, run first-time setup without a forced slot (pqcli-init), then run the long-lived detached service (pqcli) that loads slot 1 by default.

# Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/rr-/pqcli.git
cd pqcli

# Install to a local venv:
poetry install

# Install pre-commit hooks:
poetry run pre-commit install

# Enter the venv:
poetry shell

This project uses poetry for packaging. Install instructions are available at poetry#installation.

If running on Linux and you get the error _curses.error: init_pair() returned ERR, try making sure that your $TERM variable is set to a value which supports 256 colors, such as via the following:

TERM=xterm-256color pqcli