MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://naga.icesus.org/icesus
Icesus is a free-to-play MUD (multi-user dungeon) set in the Valley of Icesus, a frozen post-apocalyptic world with rich lore involving warring factions, elemental religions, and rogue-like combat. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering a player handbook, atlas, wiki, forums, and bug tracker for this long-running online text RPG.
https://torilmud.com/
Toril is a long-running MUD set in the Forgotten Realms D&D campaign setting, featuring over 325 explorable zones spanning iconic locations like Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and the Underdark. Running continuously since 1993, it offers fifteen player races, seventeen classes, and massive group raids against legendary foes like Tiamat, all playable through a custom web client.
https://timesmud.com/
Medieval Times MUD is a text-based multiplayer roleplaying game hosted at timesmud.com port 8500, featuring over 170 unique zones, a remort system, ANSI color graphics, and a rich mix of magic and melee classes. Players can explore dungeons, defeat dragons and grand wizards, collect epic loot, and engage in trade skills and questing across a sprawling medieval fantasy world.
http://kallindor.org/
Kallindor MUD is a text-based multiplayer online game built on the foundations of classic MUDs Myrradel and Alhazi Invasion, offering over 100 original areas, 18 races, and 5 base classes with 15 additional subclasses. Players can dive into hack-and-slash combat, clan warfare, PK systems, and a meta progression system with hundreds of unique skills and spells.
https://dunemud.net/
Dune MUD is a classic LP MUD that has been running since 1992, set in Frank Herbert's iconic Dune universe with 30,000+ rooms, ten guilds, opt-in PvP, and an active playerbase. The wiki-based site serves as a comprehensive hub for players, offering connection guides, client recommendations, quest information, maps, and lore about the Dune universe that inspired the game.
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://dark-legacy.com/index.php
Dark Legacy is a free browser-accessible MUD (multi-user dungeon) set in the fantasy world of Alora, offering players 40 races, multiple classes, crafting, pet training, dungeon exploration, and player-built structures. Created by Daan van Yperen and running for over a decade, it features an extensive character customization system with ancestries, starsigns, and hundreds of physical traits.