MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
http://tads.org/
TADS (Text Adventure Development System) is the official home of a free, professional-grade authoring toolkit for creating interactive fiction, maintained by Michael J. Roberts. The site offers downloads, comprehensive manuals, code examples, and community links for both TADS 2 and TADS 3, making it an essential hub for serious IF developers.
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://sugarcaen.tripod.com/
Caen's Domain offers a personal look into the world of Lensmoor, a popular MUD (Multi-User Dungeon), through the eyes of a player named Caen. Visitors can expect character stories, quotes, links, and webring content all centered around this text-based roleplaying community.
https://tempusmud.com/
TempusMUD is an active text-based multiplayer adventure set in a time-traveling world where fantasy mages, divine disciples, and cyberpunk technologists collide across timelines. Players can jump in via a web client or dedicated MUD client, and the site posts regular update logs showing the game is still actively developed.
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://quiz.ravenblack.net/blood.pl
Vampires! The Dark Alleyway is a browser-based multiplayer vampire role-playing game where players create their own vampire character and drink the blood of others to survive. The site serves as the login and registration portal for this classic text-driven online game, complete with a FAQ and how-to guide for new players.
https://lisdude.com/moo/macmoo-readme.html
Hosted on John C. Daub's personal site, this page preserves historical documentation about MacMOO Server, a Mac OS implementation of the MOO text-based virtual world platform from the mid-1990s. It includes detailed setup instructions and quirks from original authors Jens Alfke and Allan Crain, making it a valuable artifact for anyone interested in the early history of MUDs and MOOs.