MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
http://mud.prophecy.lu/
Prophecy MUD is a long-running text-based Multi-User Dungeon set in the richly detailed world of David Eddings's Belgariad and Malloreon fantasy series, active since 1995. Players can choose from 91 mortal levels, join PK clans like the Guardians of the West or the Army of Angaraks, and explore custom areas built to faithfully recreate the Eddings universe.
https://improbableisland.com/
Improbable Island is a long-running old-school text adventure game that has been actively developed since the dial-up era, featuring a sprawling, surreal storyline involving quantum physics, robots, time travel, and lions in disguise. With a dedicated player community active 24/7 for over a decade, this irreverent and self-aware game prides itself on being gloriously weird and deliberately overwhelming.
http://mystic-adventure.org/
Mystic Adventure is a free-to-play medieval fantasy MUD (multi-user dungeon) featuring over 20,000 rooms, unique classes and races, creative quests, and a welcoming player community. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering guides on connecting via MUD clients, character creation, crafting, clans, and maps for new and veteran players alike.
http://dsl-mud.org/
Dark and Shattered Lands (DSL) is one of the longest-running MUDs on the internet, set in the richly detailed fantasy world of Algoron with kingdoms, clans, races, and deep lore. The site offers extensive resources including equipment lists, maps, a wiki, clan war standings, competitive leagues like the Gladiator League, and a podcast for this thriving text-based RPG community.
https://chalacyn.com/chalacyn
The official gateway for Chalacyn Nights, a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) from 1998, offering both a lite and a JavaScript-enhanced 'caffeinated' browsing experience for players. Created by Kaye Anfield, this site serves as the entry point for connecting to the game world with recommendations for period-appropriate browsers and connection speeds.
https://skotos.net/articles/show-column.phtml%3Fcolname=playing.html
Skotos Tech was a pioneering online game company that published articles and columns about text-based and browser multiplayer games. The site hosted a collection of game design writings and hosted several MUD and online RPG titles in the early 2000s.
http://lysator.liu.se/mud/bsxmud.html
A page documenting Regenesis, a graphical LP-MUD hosted by Lysator (Linköping University) that supported X11, Amiga, Mac, and MS-DOS graphical clients to render in-game imagery alongside text. The MUD used the BSX protocol developed by Bram Stolk to deliver visual context to players, making it a notable early experiment in graphical multi-user dungeon gameplay from the early 1990s.
https://ifdb.org/
IFDB is a comprehensive catalog and recommendation engine for interactive fiction and text adventures, maintained as a wiki-style community project by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. Visitors can browse thousands of game listings, read and submit reviews, participate in competitions, and discover new works through polls and curated recommendation lists.
https://abermud.tripod.com/
A comprehensive directory of Abermud servers and related resources, compiled by smlucas, covering MUD listings, source code, add-ons, telnet clients, zones, and the history of AberMUD. It serves as a central reference point for the AberMUD community, gathering everything a player or administrator might need in one place.
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.