MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://well.com/conferences/musers
The Musers conference on The WELL is a community discussion space dedicated to MUDs, MUSEs, and other text-based virtual worlds, exploring their roles as gaming environments, educational tools, and online communities. Visitors can find links to MUD resources, TinyMUSH manuals, TinyFugue, and a WELLmuse quick-start guide alongside community discussion threads.
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://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.
http://forum.ifzentrale.de/
if-de is a German-language community forum dedicated to interactive fiction and text adventures, covering both German and English-language games with sections for discussion, tips, and reviews. The forum also hosts dedicated boards for authoring tools like Inform, TADS, and Floyd, making it a hub for German-speaking IF creators and players alike.
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.
https://turf.org/
Turf MUD is a long-running, free text-based multi-user game and talker featuring over 65 unique areas spanning genres from fantasy to modern life, with clans, leagues, and an active social scene. The site provides everything a player needs, from newbie guides and maps to clan listings, help files, and humorous community content like player quotes and meetup photos.
https://mud.co.uk/richard/incarns.htm
Richard A. Bartle, co-creator of the original MUD, documents every production incarnation of MUD from its 1978 origins at Essex University through its many commercial and hobbyist deployments across decades. A fascinating primary-source history listing dates, hosts, version numbers, nicknames, and detailed notes about each iteration straight from the man who built it.
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.
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://tecfa.unige.ch/moo/clients/cupomud/CupOmud_docs.html
Cup-O MUD is a Java-based client for Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUDs, MOOs, MU*s) written by Alex Stewart, designed to be embedded directly into web pages so users can connect to MUVEs without installing any software. The documentation covers features, applet integration, parameters, TELNET negotiation, and a history of MUVE systems, making it a thorough technical reference for 1990s online virtual world enthusiasts.