MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
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.
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.
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://ifwizz.de/
ifwizz is a German-language interactive fiction database cataloging over 4,000 text adventure games spanning 40 years of the genre, from classics like Zork to modern parser games playable online. The site also hosts the IF Grand Prix competition for German-language text games, a forum, journal, and curated links for the interactive fiction community.
http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc
Discworld MUD is a long-running text-based multiplayer online game set in Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld universe, where players can join guilds like Assassins, Witches, or Wizards and explore a richly detailed world. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering documentation, creator manuals, atlases, player wikis, and a browser or download client to jump right in.
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.
http://mud.arctic.org/
ArcticMUD is a free online multi-player text-based RPG set in the Dragonlance universe of Krynn, running continuously since 1992. Players can explore a massive world, complete quests, engage in player-vs-player combat, and choose from a variety of character classes and alignments inspired by TSR's beloved fantasy novels.
https://mudcoders.com/
The MUD Coders Guild is a long-form blog and community hub dedicated to the design, development, and history of MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) and text-based games. Articles cover everything from game design philosophy and system architecture to technical topics like building Entity-Component-System frameworks in Elixir and Dockerizing MUD servers.
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://pixelscapes.com/nscape
A memorial page for NightscapeMUX, a now-defunct MUX game, featuring archival character art and splash screens recovered from an old hard drive by artist Jen Gagne. The page serves as both a farewell to former players and a showcase of the original artwork that was created for the game's website.