MUDs & Text Games
147 sites
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.
http://df.lth.se/~mol/if.html
Magnus has built a personal hub dedicated to interactive fiction, covering its literary merits, his own four published text adventure games, and resources for aspiring IF authors including Inform and TADS. The site also features criticism and analysis of notable IF works like Andrew Plotkin's 'So Far' and 'Dreamhold,' making it a thoughtful companion for both players and creators.
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://empiremud.net/
EmpireMUD is a map-based multiplayer online text game derived from CircleMUD and the DikuMUD family, where players build empires, claim territory, and compete for dominance in a persistent world. Originally developed by Paul Clarke starting in 2000, the game is actively maintained and accessible via Telnet or MUD clients, with features supporting both sighted and visually impaired players.
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://t2tmud.org/
The Two Towers MUD is a free text-based multiplayer roleplaying game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, established in 1994 and featuring over 100,000 rooms spanning from Mithlond to Mordor. Players can join guilds, complete hundreds of quests, siege enemy lands, and choose sides in the War of the Ring in this richly developed online world.
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://textfire.de/
Textfire.de is a German-language magazine and resource hub dedicated to text adventure games, encouraging enthusiasts to write and share their own interactive fiction. It features articles for authors, programming examples, reviews of existing works, and even hosts a competitive Grand Prix tournament for text adventure creators.
http://textfire.de/tests/txa.htm
Textfire.de hosts a detailed review and technical breakdown of TxA, a text adventure authoring system by Viktor Krammer designed for MS-DOS and Linux. The site covers TxA's compiler/interpreter architecture, its scripting language syntax, block structures like [INIT], [ROOM], and [INVENTORY], and serves as part of a broader German-language resource hub for interactive fiction enthusiasts.
https://retromud.org/
RetroMUD is a free, text-based online fantasy roleplaying game (MUD) featuring over 100 levels of play, six distinct worlds, and dozens of quests that players can access from desktop or mobile clients. The site serves as the official hub for the game, offering player rankings, help files, donation options, and connection instructions for a variety of MUD clients including Mudlet and MUSHClient.