MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://fataldimensions.nl/
Fatal Dimensions is a fantasy-oriented MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) with custom-built areas ranging from Sherwood Forest to Gulliver's Travels, offering players hack-and-slash combat as well as rich interactive environments. The site serves as the official homepage for the game, featuring news updates, player information, a forum, and links to sister MUDs.
http://3k.org/
3Kingdoms is one of the internet's longest-running MUDs, a free-to-play text-based online adventure that has been continuously developed for over 32 years. Boasting tens of thousands of rooms, hundreds of areas, dozens of quests, and a sister game called 3Scapes, it offers an enormous and complex world for dedicated players.
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://carrionfields.net/
Carrion Fields is a long-running, free-to-play text-based MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) with over 25 years of active development, offering a richly roleplaying-focused fantasy world with a complex system of races, classes, cabals, and specializations. Built on a heavily modified ROM base and maintained by volunteer staff, it emphasizes player-driven storytelling, real risk mechanics, and an aging system that makes every character's life feel meaningful.
http://shattered.org/
Shattered World is one of the internet's longest-running MUDs, established in August 1990 and boasting over a decade of custom development that sets it apart from code-sharing competitors. Visitors can explore detailed game features including races, guilds, quests, a player-driven legal system, and an in-game economy, then jump straight in via a browser-based client.
http://elysium-rpg.com/
Elysium is an original online RPG and MUD where players can build empires, join guilds and Orders, sail the seas, and master unique skills like Demonology and Herbalism. Created by Mark O'Mahoney and Rhys Catlow, this long-running text-based world offers deep roleplay and a player-maintained wiki for community lore.
http://mud2.com/CMS/index.php
The official home of MUD2, the direct descendant of the original Multi-User Dungeon designed by Richard Bartle in the late 1970s, widely considered the grandfather of all MMORPGs. Maintained by Viktor T. Toth, the site offers access to the live text-based game, help resources, and community features for players who still love classic text adventures.
http://igormud.org/
IgorMUD (also known as Pussgurkabunnyluvmud) is the official web portal for a telnet-accessible MUD, offering players and wizards guides to guilds, areas, monsters, and the game's history. The site includes sections for both players and builders, covering the approval process, design guides, programming tools, and community boards.
https://xyllomer.de/
Xyllomer is a long-running fantasy MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) with a richly detailed world featuring guilds, player-owned houses and ships, horses, trading, and a strong emphasis on roleplay over combat. Players can explore a complex alternate reality where good battles evil, gnomes live alongside centaurs, and the world is governed by player-elected judges.
https://theuw.net/
The Underworld is a long-running MUD established in 1988, offering 15,000 rooms across 120 zones, 8 character classes, 10 races, and 65 mortal levels with an optional player-killer dimension. Features like automated auctions, clan systems, remort options, and a Java telnet client make this one of the more feature-rich classic MUD experiences still online.