MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
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://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.
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.
https://medievia.com/
Medievia is a long-running free-to-play MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) featuring an enormous world with sea exploration, dragon encounters, clan warfare, trading caravans, and player-built towns and castles. The game boasts a deeply social environment alongside complex gameplay mechanics including bloodlines, player-vs-player combat zones, and a dynamic system that tracks player emotions to shape the experience.
https://balzhur.org/
Balzhur is a free Spanish-language text-based online role-playing game (MUD) set in a rich fantasy world of magic and adventure, running continuously since January 2000. Players can choose from multiple races and professions, explore detailed regions like Calimhar and Earand, and connect via a web client or telnet.
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.
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.
http://moo.ca/
Moo Canada is a long-running Canadian online virtual world where users can chat, build objects, and write programs in a MOO environment. Celebrating over thirty-one years of operation, it claims to be the largest MOO in Canada and offers free accounts for anyone who wants to join its community.
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://mud-dev.zer7.com/
An archived collection of the MUD-Dev mailing list spanning from 1996 to 2010, preserving developer discussions about MUD design, game mechanics, roleplaying systems, and programming. A valuable historical record for anyone interested in the early evolution of online multiplayer game development and the technical debates that shaped the genre.