Games Like BatMUD

Ancient Anguish

Free medieval fantasy LPMud open since 1992, with 11 classes, 8 guilds, a skill system and a long player history.

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Medievia

Free fantasy MUD from the early 1990s with a large wilderness, ships and an undersea world, dragons, trade caravans and player towns.

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DurisMUD

Full-loot PvP fantasy MUD where good and evil races wage a constant war across a surface world and the Underdark.

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Carrion Fields

Hardcore, roleplay-required dark fantasy MUD with cabal faction wars, 21 races and 17 classes, entirely free with no paid perks.

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Alter Aeon

Fantasy MUD with free multiclassing across six classes, over 1,000 quests and strong support for blind and visually impaired players.

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Imperian

PvP-focused Iron Realms fantasy MUD, kept online in Legacy Mode since 2023 with open player conflict and no real-money purchases.

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Realms of Despair

The original SMAUG MUD, a free medieval fantasy world open since 1994 with prestige classes, clans, orders and nations.

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Starmourn

Free science fiction MUD from Iron Realms with customizable starships, space combat, a hacking skill tree and a cure-free combat system.

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GemStone IV

Simutronics' flagship fantasy text MMORPG set in Elanthia, known for live GameMaster events and a lineage of games dating back to 1988.

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DragonRealms

Skill-based fantasy text MMORPG from Simutronics, set in Elanthia, where characters advance through guilds and live GameMaster events.

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Discworld MUD

Fan-run, humorous text MUD set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, with over a million rooms, seven guilds and player-made law.

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Genesis MUD

The first LPMud, created in Sweden in 1989 and still running as a free fantasy text adventure with races, guilds and crafting.

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3Kingdoms

LPMud spanning fantasy, post-apocalyptic science and chaos realms around the town of Pinnacle, with 15+ guilds and 700+ areas.

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Materia Magica

Fantasy MUD set in the world of Alyria, free to play with an optional subscription and a strong focus on screen reader accessibility.

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Tibia

One of the oldest running MMORPGs: a 2D top-down fantasy world from CipSoft with tough hunting, harsh death penalties and open PvP worlds.

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Aardwolf

Free fantasy MUD known for its large world, hundreds of quests, a custom client with maps, and a progression system built around levels and remorts.

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Threshold RPG

High fantasy MUD where roleplay is required and enforced, open since 1996 with guilds, religions, clans and player-made law.

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Sindome

Roleplay-required cyberpunk MOO set in a domed city in 2105, with permanent consequences and character-driven play.

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Achaea

Long-running fantasy MUD from Iron Realms with city-state politics, a deep class roster and a combat system built around afflictions and cures.

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Lusternia

Iron Realms fantasy MUD built around rival city-states and nature communes, yearly story arcs and a wide range of trade skills.

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Federation 2

Text space trading game where players haul cargo, rise through ranks and eventually own and run their own planets.

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Embers Adrift

An indie PvE fantasy MMORPG built for slow, deliberate group play, with no map markers, a focus on exploration and a small-team community.

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World of Warcraft Classic

Classic edition of World of Warcraft

Blizzard's recreation of early World of Warcraft, offered as several realm types from the original 2004-era game to replayed expansions, permadeath and rune-based seasons.

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• RPG

Project: Gorgon

An indie fantasy MMORPG from a tiny team, built around discovery, hundreds of skills to mix and odd, humorous systems like being turned into an animal.

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• RPG