Are there any inhabited and lively MUDS/MUSHes/MUXes still around? I miss those.
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
WoTMUD was pretty awesome too, I haven't looked to see if it's still online for years.
It is online and still quite active! Drop into the discord and say hello. I spent many of my formative years on wotmud.
Is Trill still sitting at the Keep well, refusing to be useful?
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#113I would love to find a text-based, strategy game - imagine something like Master of Magic, Master of Orion 2, or Total War Warhammer, or something like that, but just text-based.
Dwarf Fortress? http://bay12games.com/dwarves/
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#114Dragonrealms!
IMO Dragonrealms was great in the late 90s and early 2000s, but when I tried to get back into it in 2020 I found that rampant AFK scripting for skill progression killed my desire to put much time into it. It was supposedly still against the rules, but those rules were basically completely unenforced and people would just flagrantly violate them while the GMs didn't seem to care. I ended up canceling my account after about a month.
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#115Roadwarden is a recent text adventure that has some sections like the ones you want. The story is pretty good too.
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#116Already mentioned, but another hearty recommendation for Planetfall. I played that game in the 1980s, and I still enjoy playing it from time to time.
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#117Dragonrealms!
I still play from time to time. For the most part the only in game communities tend to just use the world props as a prop/sandbox for freeform roleplaying. The people who script level their characters tend to talk on discord and probably other chats. I don't think spontaneous in game interaction is much of a thing anymore.
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#118I tried to revive the medium 14 years ago. The remnants are at https://textfyre.itch.io/. Shadow in the Cathedral received strong reviews and Jack Toresal has a unique interface if you can get Silverlight running.
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#119Aardwolf mud: https://www.aardwolf.com/
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#120I help run the Interactive Fiction Database. https://ifdb.org/ I think that our list of games ranked by review scores is certainly the finest repository of extraordinary text-based games in the world. https://ifdb.org/search?browse Every game on that list is fantastic. For your reading convenience, the top ten are: Counterfeit Monkey , Anchorhead , Superluminal Vagrant Twin , 80 Days , Hadean Lands , Lost Pig , The W…
Hadean Lands also has a mobile app version, with a button-oriented interface so you don't have to type so much on a touchscreen keyboard.