MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
https://nexustk.com/index.html
Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds is a classic anime-themed MMORPG with roots in the MUD tradition, offering an online fantasy world with quests, community events, and role-playing. One of the earliest graphical online RPGs, it blends Eastern art and storytelling with persistent multiplayer gameplay and a free trial to draw in newcomers.
https://swmud.org/
SWmud is a long-running Star Wars-themed MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) that has been active since 1994, featuring around 40 planets and space stations with hundreds of rooms each. Players can choose from multiple character races and guilds, explore a universe loosely set during the original trilogy era, and engage in gameplay including dynamic bounties and corporations.
https://www.topmudsites.com/
Top MUD Sites is a long-running ranking directory that catalogued the best MUDs and text-based RPGs on the internet, ordered by visitor votes and featuring a database of hundreds of games. Though now read-only and going inactive, it preserves an all-time top 100 list covering classics like Aardwolf, Achaea, and Discworld alongside forums, reviews, and articles about the MUD genre.
http://www.mudconnect.com/mud_intro.html
The MUD Connector (TMC) is the premier directory for finding free text-based multiplayer games, listing over 663 MUDs spanning fantasy, sci-fi, cyberpunk, and pop-culture universes. Visitors can search and browse the mudlist by category, read community reviews, access beginner guides, and even discover a random MUD to try.
http://textpaeckchen.org/hilfe.html
Textpäckchen is a German-language interactive fiction platform offering text adventure games with a help guide explaining how to navigate the game window, status bars, and command syntax. The site walks players through the basics of parser-style text games, including verb-object commands and exploration tips, making it a welcoming entry point for German speakers new to the genre.
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.
http://ccxvii.net/spatterlight
Spatterlight is a native macOS Cocoa application that plays a wide range of interactive fiction formats including Z-code, Glulx, TADS, Hugo, and Magnetic Scrolls games. The site provides downloads, source code, and links to bibliographic iFiction files for classic commercial IF titles from companies like Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
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://mume.org/
MUME (Multi-Users in Middle-earth) is a free, text-based multiplayer RPG set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, continuously running and expanded by volunteers since 1991. Players choose from races like Hobbits, Elves, Orcs, and Trolls to explore iconic locations and take part in the epic conflict between the Free Peoples and the forces of Sauron.
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.