MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://chalacyn.com/chalacyn
The official gateway for Chalacyn Nights, a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) from 1998, offering both a lite and a JavaScript-enhanced 'caffeinated' browsing experience for players. Created by Kaye Anfield, this site serves as the entry point for connecting to the game world with recommendations for period-appropriate browsers and connection speeds.
https://planet-if.com/
Planet Interactive Fiction is a blog aggregator maintained by Christopher Armstrong that collects posts from dozens of writers, reviewers, and developers across the interactive fiction community. Covering tools like Inform 7, TADS, ADRIFT, and Z-Machine alongside reviews, walkthroughs, and craft essays, it serves as a central hub for anyone passionate about text adventures and parser games.
https://www.topmudsites.com/
Top MUD Sites is a long-running ranking directory that catalogued the best MUDs and text-based RPGs on the internet, ordered by visitor votes and featuring a database of hundreds of games. Though now read-only and going inactive, it preserves an all-time top 100 list covering classics like Aardwolf, Achaea, and Discworld alongside forums, reviews, and articles about the MUD genre.
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://mume.org/
MUME (Multi-Users in Middle-earth) is a free, text-based multiplayer RPG set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, continuously running and expanded by volunteers since 1991. Players choose from races like Hobbits, Elves, Orcs, and Trolls to explore iconic locations and take part in the epic conflict between the Free Peoples and the forces of Sauron.
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.
http://newmoonmud.org/
New Moon is a long-running LPMud set in a medieval fantasy world, accessible via telnet at newmoonmud.org:7680 and welcoming to newcomers with guides, FAQs, maps, and client download recommendations. The site serves as the official hub for players and creators alike, featuring a beginner's guide, help pages, staff directory, and a gallery of citizen portraits.
https://solace.i-read-you.ru/
Solace is an online MUD set in the iconic Dragonlance fantasy universe, featuring a wide variety of playable races like minotaurs, dwarves, elves, and draconians alongside classic fantasy classes such as necromancers, knights, and clerics. The game offers persistent world roleplaying, questing, and combat rooted in the lore of Krynn, complete with its pantheon of gods and signature factions.
https://merentha.com/
Merentha is a long-running free online text-based multiplayer RPG that has been running since 1996, set in the fantasy world of Cardania with dozens of races, classes, guilds, and kingdoms to explore. The site serves as a comprehensive portal for players, featuring maps, quests, coding tutorials, player directories, character artwork, and lore spanning over two decades of active gameplay.
https://www.gammon.com.au/
Nick Gammon's software solutions page is home to MUSHclient, a popular MUD/MUSH client, alongside utility programs, electronics resources focused on Arduino and microprocessors, and a weaving program called Weavedraft. The site blends hobbyist programming tools with practical software downloads, making it a useful stop for MUD enthusiasts and tinkerers alike.