MUDs & Text Games
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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.
https://outland.org/news.php
Avatar MUD (also known as AVATAR) is the official homepage for a long-running multi-user dungeon hosted at outland.org, featuring detailed resources on races, classes, geography, lore, and character progression tiers. Visitors can find game updates, player stat archives, newbie tips, MUD client guides for multiple platforms, forums, and even a photo gallery of the player community.
https://mudhalla.net/
MUDhalla is a dedicated resource for multiplayer text adventure games, offering a MUD list and setup guides to help newcomers start playing within minutes. The site recommends the TinTin++ and WinTin++ clients and even includes accessibility guidance for screen reader users, making it a welcoming entry point into the MUD hobby.
https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/
TinyFugue (tf) is a powerful, programmable MUD client created by Ken Keys, designed for connecting to text-based MUDs across UNIX, MacOS, and Windows platforms. The site offers full documentation, download instructions for multiple operating systems, and details on advanced features like scripting, triggers, SSL support, and ANSI display.
http://tads.org/
TADS (Text Adventure Development System) is the official home of a free, professional-grade authoring toolkit for creating interactive fiction, maintained by Michael J. Roberts. The site offers downloads, comprehensive manuals, code examples, and community links for both TADS 2 and TADS 3, making it an essential hub for serious IF developers.
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://jointhesaga.com/
OtherSpace MUSH is the home base for Wes Platt's long-running science fiction roleplaying game, featuring session logs, community links, and ongoing collaborative storytelling content. The site blends MUSH updates, roleplaying guides, essays, and humor pieces into a hub for players and fans of the OtherSpace universe.
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://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp/WWW-VL/eduVR-page.html
Part of the WWW Virtual Library's Educational Technology section, this page from TECFA (University of Geneva) catalogs resources on educational virtual reality environments, MOOs, and MUDs as learning tools. A comprehensive link directory compiled by Daniel K. Schneider, it covers academic projects, technical guides, and community resources for educators exploring text-based virtual worlds in the mid-to-late 1990s.
https://solace.i-read-you.ru/
Solace is an online MUD set in the iconic Dragonlance fantasy universe, featuring a wide variety of playable races like minotaurs, dwarves, elves, and draconians alongside classic fantasy classes such as necromancers, knights, and clerics. The game offers persistent world roleplaying, questing, and combat rooted in the lore of Krynn, complete with its pantheon of gods and signature factions.