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272 games like GemStone IV · 1978 – 2017
Android, iOS
Parallel Kingdoms is an online RPG that uses real world maps with GPS. It is made for the iPhone, iPod Touch and any other phone running Google Android. The new version, "Parallel Kingdom" is now available for free in the iTunes App Store a
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PlayStation exclusiveStormfront Studios · PS2
The Legend of Alon D'ar is a role-playing video game. The game plays somewhat like the Final Fantasy series' Active Time Battle, with the player having to wait certain time for their turn. The game features a vast world to explore; there ar
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Nintendo console exclusiveAtari ST, Game Boy Color
As the war rages on between Airatose and Sagon, a band of adventurers departs to join the war. However, their ship is damaged in a storm, and they stop on an undiscovered island known as Lamini. Lord Banniff gives the adventurers shelter an
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Nival · Windows
Rage of Mages II: Necromancer (known as Allods 2: Master of Souls in Russia) is the sequel to the original Rage of Mages. It is an RTS/RPG hybrid.
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Xbox exclusive
feelplus · Xbox 360
Ninety-nine Nights II (N3II) is a high-energy "Hack and Slash" action-adventure game for Xbox 360 featuring epic battles against massive armies in a unique fantasy realm. This highly-anticipated sequel is the latest follow-up to the interna
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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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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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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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Legacy Computer
DikuMUD is a multiplayer text-based role-playing game, which is a type of multi-user domain (MUD). It was written in 1990 and 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Tom Madsen, Katja Nyboe, Michael Seifert, and Hans Henrik Stærfeldt at DIKU (Datalogisk
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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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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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Robinson Technologies · MS-DOS, Windows
A BBS door, or online game, Legend of the Red Dragon is a text-based, multiplayer online RPG. Players fight monsters, duel each other, and level up, with the goal of defeating the Red Dragon which is threatening the town.
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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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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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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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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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Nintendo exclusive
Omega Force · Nintendo 3DS, Switch
"Clash with legions of soldiers and fierce monsters as Marth, Xander, Corrin, and other Fire Emblem heroes unleashing over-the-top-powerful Dynasty Warriors-style moves. Take direct control of known and original Fire Emblem characters, issu
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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, 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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Silk Games · Windows
NEStalgia is an original multiplayer RPG inspired by the glory days of traditional console RPGs. Essentially "Dragon Warrior 3 meets World of Warcraft", NEStalgia is an amalgam of the best generations of RPG gaming. Players wage classic tur
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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
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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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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Windows
The Legend of Ares, also known as Ares Online, is a free 3D, MMORPG game developed by MGame. Like many 3D MMORPGs, it is a point and click game, where players can attack monsters (PvE) or other players (PvP), pick up items, and talk to NPCs
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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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Lucasfilm Games · Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, FM Towns +2
The first graphical character-based interactive environment, supported up to 64 simultaneous players.
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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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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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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Medieval Text Adventure game with graphics.
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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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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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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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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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Portalarium · Linux, Windows, macOS
Journey to the world of Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, a computer role playing game created by Lord British (aka Richard Garriott), creator of the genre defining Ultima series of computer games, Starr Long, director of Ultima Onlin
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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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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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Imperia Online JSC · Android, Browser, Windows +1
Imperia Online is MMO strategy known for its deep gameplay. Build your capital, claim new territories by establishing provinces, trading posts and military encampments. Train your army to spy on the enemy and defend your Empire. With its pv
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Jagex · Android, Browser, Java platform +5
RuneScape is a high fantasy open world MMORPG. Explore an ever changing and evolving living world where new challenges, skills, and quests await. Featuring unprecedented player freedom, you choose how to play, adventure, and grow.
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ZX Spectrum
A UK only 007 text adventure for the ZX Spectrum.
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