MUDs & Text Games
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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.
http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc
Discworld MUD is a long-running text-based multiplayer online game set in Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld universe, where players can join guilds like Assassins, Witches, or Wizards and explore a richly detailed world. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering documentation, creator manuals, atlases, player wikis, and a browser or download client to jump right in.
https://cybersphere.net/
The Cybersphere Wiki is the official player reference for CyberSphere, a cyberpunk-themed Role-Playing MOO set in a dystopian future city called New Carthage, complete with wastelands, megacorporations, and a matrix network. Visitors will find detailed guides on character creation, in-game mechanics, factions, gangs, skills, and everything needed to navigate this text-based online world.
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.
https://pixelscapes.com/nscape
A memorial page for NightscapeMUX, a now-defunct MUX game, featuring archival character art and splash screens recovered from an old hard drive by artist Jen Gagne. The page serves as both a farewell to former players and a showcase of the original artwork that was created for the game's website.
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.
https://legendmud.org/index.php/Welcome_to_Legend
LegendMUD is a long-running text-based multi-user dungeon set in a historically-grounded virtual world where players explore eras like Ancient, Medieval, and Industrial periods with a fantastical twist. Visitors can connect directly to the game, browse quest walkthroughs, and dive into richly described environments ranging from Victorian London to Celtic Ireland.
https://realmsofdespair.com/
Realms of Despair is the original SMAUG MUD, a free medieval fantasy text game boasting over 250 unique areas, a wide variety of races and classes, and a rich web of guilds, clans, and nation-based roleplay organizations. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering a web client, documentation on commands and classes, area maps, community resources, and a new player guide.
http://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card
The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction offers a beginner's guide to interactive fiction distilled onto a single postcard, written by Andrew Plotkin and designed by Lea Albaugh for newcomers sitting down in front of an IF game for the very first time. Available in multiple formats including PDF, PNG, SVG, and HTML, plus translations in French, Russian, Spanish, German, and Italian, this handy reference card conveys the essential command patterns without overwhelming beginners.
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.