MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://well.com/conferences/musers
The Musers conference on The WELL is a community discussion space dedicated to MUDs, MUSEs, and other text-based virtual worlds, exploring their roles as gaming environments, educational tools, and online communities. Visitors can find links to MUD resources, TinyMUSH manuals, TinyFugue, and a WELLmuse quick-start guide alongside community discussion threads.
https://tharel.net/
Adventures Unlimited is a long-running text-based MUD set in the fantasy world of Tharel, online since 1999 and featuring 17,000 rooms, 9 character classes, 17 races, and a rich player-killing and roleplay system. With 12 unique deities, five religion-based clans, clan warfare mechanics, and a built-in automapper, this is a deeply developed old-school online RPG with an active community.
http://ccxvii.net/spatterlight
Spatterlight is a native macOS Cocoa application that plays a wide range of interactive fiction formats including Z-code, Glulx, TADS, Hugo, and Magnetic Scrolls games. The site provides downloads, source code, and links to bibliographic iFiction files for classic commercial IF titles from companies like Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
http://mud.arctic.org/
ArcticMUD is a free online multi-player text-based RPG set in the Dragonlance universe of Krynn, running continuously since 1992. Players can explore a massive world, complete quests, engage in player-vs-player combat, and choose from a variety of character classes and alignments inspired by TSR's beloved fantasy novels.
http://anguish.org/intro.php?id=topmud_db
Ancient Anguish is a free medieval fantasy MUD founded in 1992, featuring two massive continents with over 12,000 rooms, hundreds of explorable areas, and a rich variety of classes and guilds. The site serves as a comprehensive portal with lore, gameplay guides, player rankings, discussion boards, and even a Wizard mentoring program for players who want to help code new content.
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://logicalshift.co.uk/unix/zoom
Zoom is a free, open-source interpreter for Z-Code, TADS, and Hugo interactive fiction formats, supporting classic Infocom titles like Zork as well as modern text adventures. Available for OS X and Unix-like systems, it includes plugin support for multiple story formats and comes with a downloadable manual.
https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
TinyFugue (tf) is a powerful, programmable MUD client created by Ken Keys, designed for connecting to text-based MUDs across UNIX, MacOS, and Windows platforms. The site offers full documentation, download instructions for multiple operating systems, and details on advanced features like scripting, triggers, SSL support, and ANSI display.
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://virtualnet.at/txa/index.htm
Viktor Krammer's TxA Text Adventure System is a development environment for creating text adventures on MS-DOS, Windows, and Linux, complete with a two-level parser supporting synonyms and optional words. The site includes documentation, a quick-start guide, downloadable games, and a sample excerpt from an original text adventure called 'The Blue Stone'.