MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://ymusk.sourceforge.net/
Ymusk is a MUSH client written in Perl by a developer named Yenzie, offering features like ANSI color support, text filters, multi-input boxes, spell-checking, and an ICQ-like GUI for managing pages. The site hosts multiple versioned releases with screenshots, a user guide, and CVS access, making it a practical hub for MUSH players looking for a customizable Telnet-based client.
https://aardwolf.com/
Aardwolf is a long-running free text-based MUD set in the fantasy world of Andolor, featuring 28 character classes, hundreds of quests, real-time overhead maps, and a thriving multiplayer community. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering a web client to play directly, a wiki, Lua coding documentation, clan and race information, and regularly updated news about game changes.
http://mudconnect.com/
The MUD Connector has been the premier hub for discovering free text-based multiplayer games since 1995, maintaining a searchable list of over 700 active MUDs across dozens of categories. Visitors can browse by genre, read community reviews, explore beginner guides, and submit or update their own MUD listings.
https://www.adrift.co/links
ADRIFT is a dedicated hub for the Interactive Fiction authoring tool of the same name, offering a curated links page pointing to wikis, databases, competitions, and community forums across the IF world. Visitors can discover resources like IFDB, intfiction.org, and the annual Interactive Fiction Competition, making it a useful gateway for both ADRIFT users and the broader text adventure 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.
https://mud-dev.zer7.com/
An archived collection of the MUD-Dev mailing list spanning from 1996 to 2010, preserving developer discussions about MUD design, game mechanics, roleplaying systems, and programming. A valuable historical record for anyone interested in the early evolution of online multiplayer game development and the technical debates that shaped the genre.
http://textpaeckchen.org/hilfe.html
Textpäckchen is a German-language interactive fiction platform offering text adventure games with a help guide explaining how to navigate the game window, status bars, and command syntax. The site walks players through the basics of parser-style text games, including verb-object commands and exploration tips, making it a welcoming entry point for German speakers new to the genre.
https://nightfall.org/
Nightfall is one of the oldest continuously running MUDs in existence, operating since 1990 and offering a rich text-based multiplayer world with over 100 quests, multiple guilds, and diverse races. Visitors can connect via telnet or a built-in web client, and the site provides extensive documentation including a quickstart guide, lore, maps, and player help resources.
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.
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.