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154 games like GodWars · 1978 – 2009
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Linux, MS-DOS, Windows +2
Discworld MUD is an online, text based multiplayer game, set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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Windows
GodsWar Online is a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game based around Greek Mythology.
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Linux, Windows, macOS
GridWars is a video game inspired by Bizarre Creations' Geometry Wars by Canadian developer Marco Incitti. The first version of the game was released as freeware on December 21, 2005 on Marco Incitti's Blitz Creations website. Although oth
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Psychic Software · Linux, Windows, macOS
Battle for survival and supremacy in a gritty post-apocalyptic world of vehicular combat where strategy and tactics determines who wins. Darkwind is a simultaneous turn-based, physics-based game. It is often described as "X-Com meets Mad Ma
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3
Grand Monster Slam is a sports video game for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. It is somewhat based on the 1985 arcade video game Penguin Wars. In Amiga Power's first All Time Top One Hundred in the inaugural 'Issue 0', it was
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Microcabin · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Welcome to GUARDIAN WAR. This is a story about another world, another time. This was a beautiful world guarded by Goddess Erald. Darkness feared the Goddess Erald, and there was no way that Darkness could enter this beautiful world, until.
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Timed SNK exclusive
ADK · Arcade, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD +5
One year after both the conclusion of the World Heroes Battle Fest and the defeat of Zeus, invitations has been sent to the 16 fighters by Dr. Brown, informing them of a new World Heroes tournament that'll help finally settle the question o
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Triumph Studios · Linux, Windows
Welcome to Age of Wonders, the authentic turn-based fantasy strategy classic that started the hit series. Age of Wonders’ intimate atmosphere with painterly graphics still shines today. The game’s fully patched up, start building your fanta
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Astro Wars was an electronic table top game made in Great Britain in 1981 by Grandstand under licence from Epoch Co., who sold the game in Japan under the title Super Galaxian (スーパーギャラクシアン).[1][2] There were two versions of Astro Wars - an
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ZX Spectrum
CHAOS features over 50 animated spells and creatures for you to summon from the depths of hell in a war with other wizards to become Lord of Creation.
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Xbox console exclusive
Ion Storm · Windows, Xbox
Several religious and political factions see an opportunity to re-shape a worldwide government to their agendas. In this techno-nightmare, take part in the dark struggle to raise the world from its own ashes. This dynamic and innovative 1s
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Nintendo console exclusive
Interplay Entertainment · Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS +9
The designers of the Bard's Tale series, Wasteland, and Battle Chess pooled their talents to create the ultimate role-playing fantasy. They knew it had to be a first-rate story with sophisticated graphics. The result was Dragon Wars. Saili
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ArenaNet · Windows
In a world torn by conflict, where human kingdoms are all but destroyed and guilds sacrifice all for a chance to control the Hall of Heroes, a champion must rise from the ruins of a once-proud land to lead refugees from the ashes and fulfil
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Sega exclusive
Neverland · Dreamcast
Record of the Lodoss War is a hack and slash action dungeon crawler RPG, in a similar vein to Diablo. It is very loosely attached to the Japanese fantasy novels and anime series of the same name.
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