MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://agesofdespair.net/
Ages of Despair is a long-running LP MUD set in a medieval fantasy world, active since 1998 and built by a dedicated team of wizards and coders. Visitors can explore information about races, classes, guilds, and world lore before connecting via telnet to dive into the adventure.
https://retromud.org/
RetroMUD is a free, text-based online fantasy roleplaying game (MUD) featuring over 100 levels of play, six distinct worlds, and dozens of quests that players can access from desktop or mobile clients. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering player rankings, help files, donation options, and connection instructions for a variety of MUD clients including Mudlet and MUSHClient.
http://lpmuds.net/lpmud_faq.html
LPMuds.net hosts a comprehensive FAQ resource for LPMud, the influential text-based multiplayer game server platform, preserving Descartes's classic FAQ originally authored by George Reese in 1994. Visitors will find detailed information about LPC programming, MUD drivers, mailing lists, and the history of the LPMud ecosystem, making it an essential reference for MUD administrators and players alike.
https://lexiconn.com/users/mud
NetherWorld is a long-running Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) that has been active since 1993, built on heavily modified Merc Diku 2.2 code and featuring over 15,000 rooms across 3 continents, 20 races, 15 classes, and a rich set of player-driven features. Visitors can connect directly via a Java MUD client or telnet, and explore detailed information about the game's clans, areas, immortals, and remort systems.
http://textfire.de/tests/txa.htm
Textfire.de hosts a detailed review and technical breakdown of TxA, a text adventure authoring system by Viktor Krammer designed for MS-DOS and Linux. The site covers TxA's compiler/interpreter architecture, its scripting language syntax, block structures like [INIT], [ROOM], and [INVENTORY], and serves as part of a broader German-language resource hub for interactive fiction enthusiasts.
https://pixelscapes.com/nscape
A memorial page for NightscapeMUX, a now-defunct MUX game, featuring archival character art and splash screens recovered from an old hard drive by artist Jen Gagne. The page serves as both a farewell to former players and a showcase of the original artwork that was created for the game's website.
https://friday-girl.neocities.org/
Friday-girl's personal site doubles as an archive of permadeath logs and funny moments from MUD2, the classic text-based multiplayer game. The collection of 'Stupid Deaths' makes it a quirky and niche resource for fans of old-school text MUDs.
https://xyllomer.de/
Xyllomer is a long-running fantasy MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) with a richly detailed world featuring guilds, player-owned houses and ships, horses, trading, and a strong emphasis on roleplay over combat. Players can explore a complex alternate reality where good battles evil, gnomes live alongside centaurs, and the world is governed by player-elected judges.
https://realmsofdespair.com/
Realms of Despair is the original SMAUG MUD, a free medieval fantasy text game boasting over 250 unique areas, a wide variety of races and classes, and a rich web of guilds, clans, and nation-based roleplay organizations. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering a web client, documentation on commands and classes, area maps, community resources, and a new player guide.
http://martin-oehm.de/deform
Martin Oehm's deform project is a German translation of the Inform 6 library, allowing developers to write text adventures in the German language using Z-Code and Glulx formats. The site provides the library download, several commented example adventures, and documentation on how deform differs from the official Inform library.