MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
http://newmoonmud.org/
New Moon is a long-running LPMud set in a medieval fantasy world, accessible via telnet at newmoonmud.org:7680 and welcoming to newcomers with guides, FAQs, maps, and client download recommendations. The site serves as the official hub for players and creators alike, featuring a beginner's guide, help pages, staff directory, and a gallery of citizen portraits.
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.
http://british-legends.com/CMS
The official home of Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), widely recognized as the world's oldest virtual world, originally known as British Legends on CompuServe. Created and maintained by Viktor T. Toth, the site lets visitors play the game directly via Telnet, explore its history, and connect with its long-running player community.
https://timesmud.com/
Medieval Times MUD is a text-based multiplayer roleplaying game hosted at timesmud.com port 8500, featuring over 170 unique zones, a remort system, ANSI color graphics, and a rich mix of magic and melee classes. Players can explore dungeons, defeat dragons and grand wizards, collect epic loot, and engage in trade skills and questing across a sprawling medieval fantasy world.
https://deathlogs.com/
Deathlogs.com is a community hub for MUD players that archives combat logs, death records, kill statistics, and highscores across dozens of text-based online RPGs including Reinos de Leyenda, Final Realms, and Ancient Kingdoms. With tens of thousands of logs spanning multiple games in both English and Spanish, it serves as an invaluable historical record and competitive tracker for the MUD gaming community.
https://mmucl.sourceforge.net/
Mmucl (pronounced 'muckle') is an open-source MUD client written entirely in Tcl by Mark Patton, offering both graphical and text-based interfaces including Tk and Gnome support. The project page includes download links, a feature list, and news updates spanning several years of development under the GNU General Public License.
https://wocmud.org/welcome.php
Worlds of Carnage is a long-running fantasy MUD run by Robert Cummings (Blobule) that lets players explore a text-based realm filled with mythical creatures, races, guilds, and classic telnet-era adventure. The site serves as a portal to jump directly into the game via browser or telnet, and includes information about races, lore, a wiki, forums, and building tools for this non-profit community.
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.
http://eotmud.com/
End of Time is a free, text-based Multi-User Dungeon built around the beloved worlds of Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Secret of Mana, offering players a unique multiplayer RPG experience in familiar Square Enix settings. The site covers races, classes, clans, world lore, and gameplay mechanics, with links to recommended MUD clients and an active wiki for deeper exploration.
http://cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wsr/Web/IF/homepage.html
Scott Neal Reilly's Interactive Fiction Page is a comprehensive directory of resources for both players and developers of text-based adventure games, with links to FTP archives, FAQs, reviews, platform-specific game collections, and community publications like SPAG and XYZZYnews. Maintained by a former CMU researcher who later worked at Zoesis Studios on interactive characters, the site bridges classic text-based IF with emerging realtime interactive storytelling.