Achaea
Online 路 486ms 路 achaea.com 路 1997
Roleplay-focused, text-based MUD from Iron Realms Entertainment.
#mud #text #rpg
Collection
Text-based multiplayer browser games and MUDs
Browser games started out text-only: Wikipedia cites Earth 2025 (1995) as one of the first, a text game where players formed alliances. These are their descendants in spirit.
17 games 路 16 online at the last sweep
Aetolia
Online 路 389ms 路 aetolia.com
"The Midnight Age": a text-based roleplaying MUD with a player-run world and 20+ classes.
#mud #text #rpg
Bootleggers
Online 路 514ms 路 bootleggers.us
Free browser-based mafia MMORPG; compete with other players in a strategy crime game.
#rpg #text #crime
Earth Empires
Online 路 445ms 路 earthempires.com
Free browser strategy game where you run a nation's military and economy, played in dated rounds across several game modes.
#strategy #text #persistent
Fallen London
Online 路 55ms 路 fallenlondon.com 路 2009
Browser-based interactive narrative set in a gothic, alternative Victorian London, by Failbetter Games.
#narrative #text #rpg
HoboWars
Online 路 344ms 路 hobowars.com
Fight other hobos, join a gang, race shopping carts and train rats in this goofy browser RPG.
#rpg #text #comedy
Imperian
Online 路 320ms 路 imperian.com
Text-based RPG and MUD from Iron Realms, playable from the browser.
#mud #text #rpg
Kingdom of Loathing
Online 路 1009ms 路 kingdomofloathing.com 路 2003
A free, comical browser-based multiplayer RPG, still getting small updates two decades on.
#rpg #text #comedy
Kings of Chaos
Online 路 112ms 路 kingsofchaos.com 路 2003
Text-based strategy: build your army, conquer your enemies, become a King of Chaos.
#strategy #text #persistent
Lusternia
Online 路 474ms 路 lusternia.com
Text-based fantasy MUD from Iron Realms, playable in the browser.
#mud #text #rpg
NationStates
Online 路 121ms 路 nationstates.net 路 2002
Multiplayer government simulation created by Max Barry, based loosely on his novel Jennifer Government.
#simulation #politics #text
Omerta
Online 路 84ms 路 barafranca.com 路 2003
Text-based gangster MMORPG: work your way up 1930s organized crime.
#rpg #text #crime
Our World of Text
Online 路 500ms 路 ourworldoftext.com
An infinitely large shared web page: write anywhere, and everyone sees it live.
#text #collaborative #quirky
Popmundo
Online 路 1217ms 路 popmundo.com 路 2003
Online RPG and community where you chase fame in a virtual music industry, played in real time.
#rpg #text #music
Torn
Online 路 62ms 路 torn.com
Text-based crime RPG set in Torn City, with factions, markets, poker and thousands of active players.
#rpg #text #crime
Urban Dead
Down 路 urbandead.com 路 2005
Kevan Davis's text-based zombie-apocalypse MMO set in the quarantined city of Malton. Shut down in March 2025.
#rpg #text #zombies
Utopia
Online 路 1035ms 路 utopia-game.com 路 1998
Fantasy kingdom-management strategy game with text-based graphics, running since the 90s.
#strategy #text #mmo