MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://iconoclast.org/
Iconoclast is a Gothic/Cyberpunk MUD set in a 22nd century science fiction world, online since 1996 and built by æthereal FORGE. The portal connects visitors to the main site, telnet access, a wiki, a mini-RPG, and a community forum all centered around this long-running text-based game world.
https://skotos.net/articles/show-column.phtml%3Fcolname=playing.html
Skotos Tech was a pioneering online game company that published articles and columns about text-based and browser multiplayer games. The site hosted a collection of game design writings and hosted several MUD and online RPG titles in the early 2000s.
https://jointhesaga.com/
OtherSpace MUSH is the home base for Wes Platt's long-running science fiction roleplaying game, featuring session logs, community links, and ongoing collaborative storytelling content. The site blends MUSH updates, roleplaying guides, essays, and humor pieces into a hub for players and fans of the OtherSpace universe.
https://outland.org/news.php
Avatar MUD (also known as AVATAR) is the official homepage for a long-running multi-user dungeon hosted at outland.org, featuring detailed resources on races, classes, geography, lore, and character progression tiers. Visitors can find game updates, player stat archives, newbie tips, MUD client guides for multiple platforms, forums, and even a photo gallery of the player community.
https://mail.dworkin.nl/pipermail/mud-dev-archive
A comprehensive mailing list archive for mud-dev, a long-running discussion community dedicated to MUD and online game development, spanning from 1996 through 2006. Developers and designers of text-based and early online games exchanged technical and design ideas here, making this archive a rich historical record of MUD development discourse.
https://aocmud.com/
Age of Chaos is a long-running text-based MUD inspired by Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time universe, featuring 22,000+ rooms, 14 character classes, 8 races, and a rich PvP and PvE system that has been active since 1997. Players can dive into clan wars, custom crafting, ancient race progression, and a massive labyrinth, all accessible via a custom client or any standard MUD client.
https://wiki.adrift.co/Main_Page
The official wiki manual for ADRIFT 5, a toolkit for creating interactive fiction and text adventure games, covering everything from beginner setup to advanced scripting. Organized into a user guide, tutorials, and a detailed reference manual, it serves as the comprehensive documentation hub for anyone writing or playing ADRIFT-powered text adventures.
https://jhcore.sourceforge.net/
JHCore is a core database package for the LambdaMOO MUD server, offering an alternative to LambdaCore with a rich set of features for building virtual worlds and text-based applications. Programmers and MUD builders will find extensive support for English pronoun substitution, hypertext help systems, navigational tools, module systems, and group-based administrative privilege assignment.
https://crawl.tildeverse.org/
The Tildeverse DCSS Server hosts a public instance of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the classic roguelike game, accessible via SSH connection from any Linux, BSD, or macOS terminal. Visitors can play console games, browse morgue files and player recordings, and find setup scripts for tilde server operators who want to offer DCSS access to their own users.
https://swmud.org/
SWmud is a long-running Star Wars-themed MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) that has been active since 1994, featuring around 40 planets and space stations with hundreds of rooms each. Players can choose from multiple character races and guilds, explore a universe loosely set during the original trilogy era, and engage in gameplay including dynamic bounties and corporations.