MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
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.
https://cheesymud.com/
CheesyMUD is a multi-user dungeon (MUD) experience with its own staff, sports, and active play portal. The site invites visitors to jump into a text-based online game world with a lighthearted, cheesy twist on the classic MUD format.
https://majik3d-legacy.org/
A legacy archive preserving the history of Majik 3D MMORPG, a volunteer-driven open-source online roleplaying game active from 1995 to 2002 that evolved from a text-based MUD through a 2D roguelike into a full 3D world. Maintained by the original developer namhas, the site hosts over 3,300 files including source code on GitHub, archived mailing lists, forums, screenshots, and design documents chronicling one of the early indie MMORPGs with player-controlled economies and ecosystems.
http://dsl-mud.org/
Dark and Shattered Lands (DSL) is one of the longest-running MUDs on the internet, set in the richly detailed fantasy world of Algoron with kingdoms, clans, races, and deep lore. The site offers extensive resources including equipment lists, maps, a wiki, clan war standings, competitive leagues like the Gladiator League, and a podcast for this thriving text-based RPG community.
https://snowplains.org/
Snowplains is a text-based talker (chat environment) built on the EW-too platform, where users connect via telnet to chat with people from around the world in a whimsical snowplain-themed virtual space. The site includes connection instructions, a building guide, residents' pages, and a 'spod chart' tracking who has spent the most time online.
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://crawl.tildeverse.org/
The Tildeverse DCSS Server hosts a public instance of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the classic roguelike game, accessible via SSH connection from any Linux, BSD, or macOS terminal. Visitors can play console games, browse morgue files and player recordings, and find setup scripts for tilde server operators who want to offer DCSS access to their own users.
https://tecfa.unige.ch/moo/clients/cupomud/CupOmud_docs.html
Cup-O MUD is a Java-based client for Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUDs, MOOs, MU*s) written by Alex Stewart, designed to be embedded directly into web pages so users can connect to MUVEs without installing any software. The documentation covers features, applet integration, parameters, TELNET negotiation, and a history of MUVE systems, making it a thorough technical reference for 1990s online virtual world enthusiasts.
http://awns.com/tkMOO-light
tkMOO-light is a cross-platform chat client developed by Andrew Wilson, designed specifically for connecting to MUD and MOO online text-based environments on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. The site offers downloads, a manual, plugin documentation, and release notes for a client that has been actively developed since the mid-1990s.
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.