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262 games like DikuMUD · 1978 – 2013
Cat Rambo · Browser, Linux, Windows +2
Armageddon is an online fantasy game in which players jointly inhabit a harsh, post-apocalyptic desert world. The game requires roleplay; while conflict abounds, the game is not about killing things. Rather, it is about living out a charact
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Linux, Windows, cross-platform +1
Forge artifacts of power. Sail to faraway lands. Build a city in your name. Establish your legacy. Perish, and be born anew. See guilds fall, races become extinct - or be one to nurture them. Explore the realm and roam free. Hone your c
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Linux, MS-DOS, Windows +2
Discworld MUD is an online, text based multiplayer game, set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
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Roy Trubshaw · Apple II, mainframe computer
Multi-User Dungeon, or MUD (referred to as MUD1, to distinguish it from its successor, MUD2, and the MUD genre in general) is an early MUD and one of the oldest examples of a virtual world in existence.
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Jagex · Android, Linux, Windows +2
Relive the challenging levelling system and risk-it-all PvP of the biggest retro styled MMO. Play with millions of other players in this piece of online gaming heritage where the community controls the development so the game is truly what
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Android, Linux, Windows +3
Lost Souls is a MUD, a free text-based multi-player online RPG (role-playing game). The theme of the setting is medieval fantasy, with elements drawn from a wide variety of sources alongside entirely original content. Your character in the
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Android, Linux, Windows +3
3Kingdoms is a text-based adventure. In 3K, you "read" the world as you play and interact with it, using thousands of intuitive verb commands. Want to wield that sword you just found? You would enter "wield sword". Want to take a closer loo
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Windows, cross-platform
One of the earliest examples of a game catered toward and made by members of the Furry fandom, 'FurryMUCK' is an online text-based roleplaying game which allows players to interact as their fursonas with others, as well as in various rooms
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Linux, Windows, macOS
Realms of Despair is the original Smaug MUD - an interactive multiplayer medieval adventure game - and is free to play. We have an active role playing community, an active player-killing (deadly) community, and a very active peaceful commun
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cross-platform
Ancient Anguish, abbreviated AA, is a fantasy-themed MUD, a text-based online role-playing game. Founded in 1991 by Balz "Zor" Meierhans and Olivier "Drake" Maquelin, it opened to the public on February 2, 1992. It is free-to-play, but has
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A.V.A.T.A.R. MUD is a free, online, massively multiplayer, fantasy, text-based role-playing game (or MUD), set in a real-time virtual environment. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games, adventure ga
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cross-platform
Diversity University was the first MOO dedicated specifically for education. Like other MUDs, it was an online realm that allowed people to interact in real time by connecting to a central server, assuming a virtual identity within that rea
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cross-platform
Dragon's Gate was an interactive, real time, text-based multi user online fantasy role-playing game, sometimes referred to as a MUD. It was one of the longest running pay-for-play online games in the world, it opened to the public in the sp
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cross-platform
Elendor is a free online text-based multi-user game that simulates the environment of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Users create characters by determining species, sex, culture, description, history (and sometimes persona) and then role
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Simutronics · Browser, Linux, Windows +1
Gemstone IV is a text-based online roleplaying game developed by Simutronics and launched in November 2003. It is the fourth iteration of the on-going Gemstone series.
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cross-platform
Genocide is a MUD, a text-based online game, focused exclusively on player-killing. Founded in 1992, it was influential as the first such "pure PK" MUD, and has met with positive critical response. Genocide's ideas influenced a number of M
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Pavel Curtis · cross-platform
LambdaMOO is an online community of the variety called a MOO. It is the oldest active MOO. LambdaMOO was founded in 1990 by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC. Now hosted in the state of Washington, it is operated and administered entirely on a vo
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cross-platform
MicroMUSE is a MUD started in 1990. It is based on the TinyMUSE system, which allows members to interact in a virtual environment called Cyberion City, as well as to create objects and modify their environment. MicroMUSE was conceived as a
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cross-platform
MorgenGrauen, abbreviated MG, is a German-language MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, founded in 1992 and opened to the public in 1993. It is noted as popular in the MUD world, described at times as having an average of around 100
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Windows
Rappelz is set in a medieval fantasy world, dominated by three races: the Deva (who represent light), the Asura (who represent darkness), and the Gaia (humans that possess an affinity with nature).
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Iron Realms Entertainment · Browser, Linux, Windows +2
Achaea is one of the longest running MMOs, pioneers of the pay-for-perks model so many MMOs are using today.
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cross-platform
ifMUD is a MUD associated with the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup accessible via telnet or a MUD client. It is central to the interactive fiction community, frequented by many of the genre's best-known writers. Every year, the XYZZY Awards
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Alan Cox
AberMUD was the first popular open source MUD. It was named after the town Aberystwyth, where it was written. The first version was written in B by Alan Cox, Richard Acott, Jim Finnis, and Leon Thrane based at University of Wales, Aberystw
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MS-DOS
A single-player version of the Sierra Network graphical multi-user dungeon, Shadow of Yserbius.
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Ybarra Productions · MS-DOS
A single-player version of the Sierra Network graphical multi-user dungeon, Shadow of Yserbius.
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cross-platform
LegendMUD is a text-only MUD game founded by a group of friends including virtual world designer Raph Koster. It features historically significant story elements and award-winning gameplay. It opened publicly on February 14, 1994. It has re
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cross-platform
TubMUD is an English language MUD which went online in 1990. TubMUD claims to be one of the oldest German MUDs. Tubmud is an offshoot of the Swedish Genesis LPMud and used parts of its library during TubMUD's starting phase.
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cross-platform
Xyllomer is a MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, founded in 1991 as PaderMUD (after the University of Paderborn, where it was hosted). It was the first publicly accessible MUD to use Dworkin's Game Driver. It has been hosted in G
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ATHEMOO was a MOO created in 1995 by Juli Burk at the University of Hawaii, as an online performance and teaching space, for professionals and academics who were interested in theatre. A MOO is an online, text-based reality which is used fo
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GodWars is a family of MUD engines derived from Merc, created in 1995 by Richard Woolcock, also known as "KaVir". GodWars' setting is influenced by White Wolf's World of Darkness. In 1996 the code was illegally released and advertised on a
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mainframe computer
MUD2 is the successor of MUD1, Richard Bartle's pioneering Multi-User Dungeon. MUD2 is not a sequel to MUD1, instead being a heavily updated version of MUD1 (MUD1 is officially version 3 of the codebase, MUD2 is version 4) - with the engine
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MS-DOS
The Shadow of Yserbius, originally published by Sierra On-Line and developed by Joe Ybarra of Ybarra Productions, was the first of three graphical MUDs for the online community. The Shadow of Yserbius and its successors remained online unti
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TinyTIM is a MUSH created in 1990 by Sketch (Jason Scott Sadofsky) and Trout.Complex. It is the oldest running MUSH in existence, having held that status at least since 1995.
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Windows
Argentum Online is a 1999 Argentinian MMORPG video game. It is available on Microsoft Windows and developed by Pablo Márquez in the city of La Plata. It has the distinction of being the first MMORPG developed in Argentina. A sequel entitled
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Kesmai · MS-DOS
Island of Kesmai is a discontinued multi-user dungeon (MUD) online game. An early entry in the genre, the game was innovative in its use of roguelike pseudo-graphics. It is considered a major forerunner of modern massively multiplayer onlin
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Windows
Legends of Kesmai (LOK) was among the first successful graphical multi-player online role-playing games. It was based on a slightly stripped down version of Island of Kesmai with 2D sprites replacing IoK's roguelike pseudo-graphics, and was
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PlayStation console exclusive
Santa Monica Studio · Android, PS3, iOS
From legendary designer Steve Jackson, co-founder of Lionhead Studios (with Peter Molyneux), and Fighting Fantasy and Games Workshop (with Ian Livingstone); and inkle, the studio behind the award-winning Frankenstein app, Sorcery! is an int
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Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Colossal Adventure takes its cue from the very earliest mainframe text adventures. Our hero must rescue the elves and find fifteen pieces of treasure. There are many dark areas, so lights and batteries are at a premium. Be careful of viciou
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Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +3
Philosopher's Quest is a single player text adventure.
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macOS
Radical Castle is a point-and-click adventure game released for Macintosh in 1986 and distributed as shareware. Players assume the role of the 'Squire', who after mistaking the princess for a serving wench, is given a choice by the King be
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +6
Princess Priscilla has been kidnapped and the player seems to be the only valliant hero willing to rescue the damsel in distress. This is the second text adventure with illustrating graphics released by Sierra. Communicating with the game w
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Sinclair ZX81 +2
You have to defeat the Lords of Chaos in this action adventure.
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Sir-Tech · Apple II
Your courage and problem-solving ingenuity will be put to the test as you try to escape from Medea's forbidden tomb. You must pass through countless rooms and secret passages. Overwhelming terror and ghoulish obstacles await you at every tu
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R.O. Software · MS-DOS
DND is the seminal mainframe classic, which started computer role-playing games. The name of the game clearly comes from the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) pen and paper role playing systems, and it uses D&D rules. Further inspired by Pedit5, t
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Windows, iOS
Furcadia is a fantasy world of magic and creation, alive with adorable animals and mythical creatures. Choose your favorite customizable avatar and start exploring this friendly, user-empowering Online Social Game (MMOSG) with rich player-d
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Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Trying to dodge the Bermuda triangle you parachute out of a plane and land on the mysterious Emerald Isle. But now you have to find a way back home...
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Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 +1
Labyrinth is a game where the player travels through a maze looking for clues and tools to help kill the Minotaur.
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