MUDs & Text Games
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https://legendmud.org/index.php/Welcome_to_Legend
LegendMUD is a long-running text-based multi-user dungeon set in a historically-grounded virtual world where players explore eras like Ancient, Medieval, and Industrial periods with a fantastical twist. Visitors can connect directly to the game, browse quest walkthroughs, and dive into richly described environments ranging from Victorian London to Celtic Ireland.
https://ifarchive.org/
The Interactive Fiction Archive is a massive preservation project that has collected thousands of text adventures, development tools, essays, hint files, and walkthroughs since 1992. Managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, it serves as the primary historical archive for the IF community, housing everything from classic Infocom-era games to modern parser fiction and competition entries.
https://inferno3.com.br/
Inferno3 is a Brazilian MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) server running an open beta, accessible via Pueblo or MushClient clients at inferno3.com.br port 4000. The ASCII art splash page and visible player list give it an authentic old-school text game atmosphere, inviting players into a Portuguese-language online roleplaying world.
https://thresholdrpg.com/
Threshold RPG is one of the oldest active role-playing-enforced MUDs on the internet, having opened to the public in June 1996 and running 24/7 for players worldwide. The site serves as a comprehensive portal for the game, covering character creation, guilds, races, religions, quests, economy, and an extensive bestiary of monsters to encounter in its high fantasy world.
https://elissablack.com/swords-of-freeport
Elissa Black, a writer and game developer, announces Swords of Freeport, a text-mode ANSI-colour multiplayer game for Linux and Mac inspired by classic BBS Door games and MUDs like Legend of the Red Dragon. The post dives into her nostalgic love of once-a-day text RPGs from the 90s and details her development progress toward an MVP release on Itch.io.
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'.
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://aocmud.com/
Age of Chaos is a long-running text-based MUD inspired by Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time universe, featuring 22,000+ rooms, 14 character classes, 8 races, and a rich PvP and PvE system that has been active since 1997. Players can dive into clan wars, custom crafting, ancient race progression, and a massive labyrinth, all accessible via a custom client or any standard MUD client.
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.
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.