Northern Crossroads is a free, text-based multiplayer RPG that’s been live since 1992. It’s classic Diku-style hack-and-slash: explore 400+ areas (~40k rooms), fight thousands of mobs, level and gear up, and team with others. No graphics—just depth, challenge, and a loyal community that loves discovery and progression. Play via modern MUD clients or Grapevine; direct connect: ncmud.net:9000.

Northern Crossroads

AwakeMUD is a MUD set in the year is 2064, and the world has been reforged in the fires of magic, technology, and greed. Orks, Trolls, Elves, and other races straight out of fantasy roam the streets, along with new and unfamiliar mutations inflicted on the populace in a traumatic event known as the SURGE. Cybernetic implants and arcane workings grant incredible power to those who can afford to wield them, and information - the most valuable resource in 2064– is stolen and traded by expert hackers with homemade VR rigs. Dominating this landscape are the mega-corporations, wielding nigh-limitless political clout and conducting shadow wars while an unsuspecting populace happily consumes their products.

As a Shadowrunner, you are one of the freelance agents hired to do various organizations' dirty work (and turn a healthy profit in the process). There are many paths you can take on your road to success, and many ways you can grow in power and influence in the Seattle community.

AwakeMUD

Iron Realms Entertainment

Starmourn is a science fiction themed MUD. The sixth MUD released by Iron Realms Entertainment and the first in 9 years.

Players create characters, explore the universe, and participate with other users in a variety of ways including PvP, PvE, roleplay, politics, economics, and more. Users play Starmourn through a proprietary, cross-platform client, directly in their browser, including Android and iOS.

Starmourn

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Arx is a game set in a low to mid-fantasy world, where magic is more legend and superstition than daily reality. The game itself is set in the capital city of the Compact, an alliance of the five Great Houses who hold sway over the continent of Arvum. The lands of Arvum are wild and sparsely settled, and away from the walls and settlements of the House-ruled fortifications there is great danger and mystery. Tribes of unaligned Abandoned (or shav'arvani) roam and raid the great forests and wildlands between the settled cities, and beyond the borders of the known lands even greater mysteries lie.

RP focused.

Arx, After the Reckoning

Lusternia is a text based multi-player game (sometimes called a MUD). When you create a character and log in, you join adventurers from all over the globe who will share in the trials and tribulations found only through intensive roleplaying. Some dismiss text games as retro, but many others find nothing can compare to the dynamic experience hearkening back to pen and paper RPGs.

Lusternia: Age of Ascension

Imperian is the third MUD developed by Iron Realms Entertainment, and has a much larger focus on PK/PVP than other IRE games.

Imperian

Aetolia is a multiplayer RPG (role-playing game) set in a gothic-fantasy world. Aetolia is played entirely in text with minimal graphics.

Characters in Aetolia talk, trade, fight, plot and even kill and eat each other. They roam the continents and explore dungeons, killing (or helping) foul creatures, gather gold and treasure while increasing in power and prestige.

Unlike other fantasy settings, Aetolia enables you to play characters of all alignments and creeds, and it's entirely in the hands of the player whether to become a hated villain, vaunted hero, or anything in between.

Aetolia

Welcome to Geas, an exciting and challenging multiplayer online roleplaying game or MUD (Multi User Dungeon) of unmatched complexity and realism.
Geas’ class- and level-less system allows your character to improve and advance the skills and abilities he or she uses most, thereby giving you maximum freedom and unlimited possibilities to develop your alter ego into the kind of character you imagine.

The features of Geas are too extensive to list, but they include an unmatched combat system, a dynamic economy, multiple languages, a player enforced legal system, hundreds of skills, an unbelievably detailed world, and roleplay which is both mandatory and strictly enforced.

Geas

Simutronics

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.

Gemstone IV

Legends of the Jedi is a text-based roleplaying experience that immerses players in a multiplayer world where they can rewrite classic Star Wars stories with their own heroes, villains, battles, and endings. Over the course of each two-year timeline, the game explores all the key eras of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

Take and hold planets as an Imperial Stormtrooper, command the Rebel navy and liberate the galaxy, pursue targets as a bounty hunter, or shape things on a larger scale as a member of the Galactic Senate. Maybe you’ll even be one of the few born with force sensitivity, destined to be trained by Jedi or Sith.

The game offers an extensive crafting system for engineers to supply weapons, armor, and ships to the galaxy. Develop new, cutting-edge armaments to give your side an edge, or open a shop in a bustling commercial district and become wealthy as part of a powerful engineering conglomerate.

LOTJ offers full PVP in both ground and space combat, governed by a set of rules to minimize griefing and ensure that all kills have sufficient in-character cause.

What role will you play? The legend awaits!

Legends of the Jedi

Achaea is one of the longest running MMOs, pioneers of the pay-for-perks model so many MMOs are using today.

Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands

The Unofficial Squaresoft MUD is a free online text-based fan-game, which is based on the worlds and combat systems of various Squaresoft games. UOSSMUD includes a class system based primarily on Final Fantasy Tactics, and worlds based on Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, and Final Fantasy 5, 6, and 7. It has a focus on accurately recreating these worlds from the original games and mirroring their storylines in missions.

In addition to the above, UOSSMUD also has smaller amounts of content from a wide variety of Squaresoft and Square Enix games. There are classes based on the combat system from SaGa Frontier, bosses from Xenogears, and a roguelike mode based on Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon. This is a MUD with fast-paced combat, and a multiclassing system that allows for a wide variety of strategies.

UOSSMUD has a blind user mode available to improve the experience for those who use a screen reader to play.

The Unofficial Squaresoft MUD

DentinMud Internet Services

Alter Aeon is a fantasy world of adventure and untold possibilities. Ours is an enormous, fantastic world to explore! We have thousands of quest to complete and tens of thousands of enemies to defeat!

Alter Aeon

Daybreak Games

This fully text-based roleplaying game takes place in the realistic-fantasy world of Iridine, The Eternal City inspired by Roman history. TEC is wholly immersive and well-worth the investment of getting started.

Join for the chance to explore the vast gameworld, complex combat and non-combat mechanics. Stay for the unparalleled community and immersive roleplay. For the right person and the right price, Iridine offers the chance to become anything: gladiator, merchant, acolyte, hunter, bandit, legionary, entertainer, explorer, thief, and so much more.

The Eternal City

Toril

DragonRealms is a fantasy MUD created by Simutronics in 1996. It has fallen in popularity with the rise of graphical MMOs, but is still one of the most popular MUDs today.

DragonRealms

Carrion Fields is a text based adventure mud with 20,000+ rooms. Find the 150+ automated quests. When you finally reach hero there will still be many challenges for you to face from fighting the Ancient Dragons to challenging Tiamat herself!

Roleplaying, Player Killing.

Carrion Fields

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 character's sometimes short and always difficult life in the harsh world, Zalanthas. It is a world where sorcerer-kings and their ruthless servants, the Templarate, govern the two main cities, Allanak and Tuluk. Any magick not granted by the Kings is feared and hated, and where the punishment of such a curse might be death. In this harsh realm, life is a constant struggle, and death may occur over a drink of precious water.
Sun of Fate. artist: Biscuits

Armageddon is an unparalleled roleplaying experience, blending worldwide socio-political intrigue with riveting interpersonal conflict and cooperation. Some players and staff have been participating in the Armageddon experience for two decades.

Multi User Dungeon Browser Games