MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
http://martin-oehm.de/deform
Martin Oehm's deform project is a German translation of the Inform 6 library, allowing developers to write text adventures in the German language using Z-Code and Glulx formats. The site provides the library download, several commented example adventures, and documentation on how deform differs from the official Inform library.
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.
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://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.
https://iconoclast.org/
Iconoclast is a Gothic/Cyberpunk MUD set in a 22nd century science fiction world, online since 1996 and built by æthereal FORGE. The portal connects visitors to the main site, telnet access, a wiki, a mini-RPG, and a community forum all centered around this long-running text-based game world.
http://web.garoumush.org/
GarouMUSH is one of the oldest World of Darkness MUSHes still in existence, running since 1993 and focused on cooperative storytelling set in the Werewolf: The Apocalypse universe. Visitors can connect via telnet or a MUSH client to join an original roleplay game featuring Garou werewolves, vampires, and mages from the White Wolf Storyteller game line.
https://balzhur.org/
Balzhur is a free Spanish-language text-based online role-playing game (MUD) set in a rich fantasy world of magic and adventure, running continuously since January 2000. Players can choose from multiple races and professions, explore detailed regions like Calimhar and Earand, and connect via a web client or telnet.
http://eternal-city.wikidot.com/
The Eternal City Wiki is an unofficial fan-maintained reference for The Eternal City, a Roman-themed text-based MUD owned by ThreeSeas LLC. Visitors can browse detailed maps of the game world, explore lore about cities and regions, and use calculators for rank bonuses, training costs, combat mechanics, and more.
https://thresholdrpg.com/
Threshold RPG is one of the oldest active role-playing-enforced MUDs on the internet, having opened to the public in June 1996 and running 24/7 for players worldwide. The site serves as a comprehensive portal for the game, covering character creation, guilds, races, religions, quests, economy, and an extensive bestiary of monsters to encounter in its high fantasy world.
https://intfiction.org/
The Interactive Fiction Community Forum is the central gathering place for authors and players of text adventures and interactive fiction, featuring categories for game reviews, development tools, writing advice, and competitions. With multilingual discussion boards and thousands of posts spanning topics from parser development to narrative craft, it serves as the backbone of the modern IF community.