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* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has these. For single-player, they are enabled by default in creative mode, enabled or disabled at world creation in survival mode, and force-disabled in hardcore. Servers have them enabled for all gamemodes, and server plugins can take them UpToEleven with commands that remove all entities, spawn things like spheres, or make new worlds.

* ''Quake'', and all the games under the quake engine, use these too.

** One joke video said that a secret cheat was /enable [[spoiler:RickRoll]].

* In ''EverQuest'' and ''EverQuestII'', "/who all bard 30 40" lists all of the Bard player characters between level 30 and level 40 who are currently online on the server.

* ''BattleForWesnoth'' is one of the least clunky pieces of open source software, but text commands (entered through the colon) are still the only interface for shuffling people around in multiplayer games.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' uses an obvious IRC descendant for its chat window.

* Server-side mods for VideoGame/TeamFortress2, like [=SourceMod=], when installed and enabled on a server, also allow the player to do specific actions by typing slash commands on the chatbox, like /rtd or /rtv.

** It's not just [=WoW=]. Nearly every MMO has a large number of slash commands.

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has these. For single-player, they are enabled by default in creative mode, enabled or disabled at world creation in survival mode, and force-disabled in hardcore. Servers have them enabled for all gamemodes, and server plugins can take them UpToEleven with commands that remove all entities, spawn things like spheres, or make new worlds.
* ''BattleForWesnoth'' is one of the least clunky pieces of open source software, but text commands (entered through the colon) are still the only interface for shuffling people around in multiplayer games.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' can be patched to play online. Most servers have hundreds of commands, and every one is different, so switching is always an exercise in frustration.
* Several text-based chat rooms use slash commands to action posts, choose font colors, and create new public or private rooms.
* ''Quake'', and all the games under the quake engine, use these too.

* ''{{Minecraft}}'' has these. For single-player, they are enabled by default in creative mode, enabled or disabled at world creation in survival mode, and force-disabled in hardcore. Servers have them enabled for all gamemodes, and server plugins can take them UpToEleven with commands that remove all entities, spawn things like spheres, or make new worlds.

* ''CityOfHeroes'' uses an obvious IRC descendant for its chat window.

* ''{{Nethack}}'' has a number of these, including naming items, dipping items in liquids, rubbing items, invoking items, and accessing containers which are lying on the ground. They're accessed through the pound sign ('#') rather than the slash key.

** Server-side mods for VideoGame/TeamFortress2, like [=SourceMod=], when installed and enabled on a server, also allow the player to do specific actions by typing slash commands on the chatbox, like /rtd or /rtv.

** "entered through the colon" is either the worst or best phrasing ever.

* The original ''[[VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic Team Fortress]]'' (a mod for ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'') used slash commands to perform certain actions such as deploying a turret. This became annoying for new players, as they had to find a large number of keys to "bind" to each command, and had to edit configuration files and go through other contortions to get the changes to stick. Many early FPS mods--even into the ''HalfLife'' era--suffered similar problems.