Tick-based space war in short seasonal rounds, in the spirit of early-2000s text strategy games.
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Indie browser games
Made by one person or a very small team.
169 games
Raise a sarcastic alien in Novigrad: school, mining, fishing, casino nights and abducting humans.
Pixel-art fantasy MMO of turn-based monster fights, raids, guilds and an endless tower.
An indie MMORPG where JavaScript you write runs up to four characters around the clock.
Classic village-building strategy where empires fight to dominate servers lasting 4-6 months.
Medieval kingdom warfare on a shared map, with slow marches and six-week Ages.
Harsh fantasy island sandbox where eight tribes of settlers fight, craft and trade to survive.
Idle fantasy MMO where squads raid for days while you craft, trade and theorycraft.
A gritty text-based MMORPG of genetically enhanced beasts fighting for a ruined city.
Space hauling and commodity trading in a shared galaxy run from a terminal-style browser UI.
Fantasy RPG in a kingdom gone dark after its king vanished, offered in sixteen languages.
Run a corporation in a growing galaxy where ten-minute turns move goods, votes and fleets.
A multilingual mafia browser game with a police HEAT meter, casino empires and 60-day seasons.
Run a 1942 crime syndicate in a fictional wartime New York district with turf wars and stocks.
Text-driven fantasy world of ten thousand rooms where you pick a race and path and hunt with others.
Round-based war strategy game of odd armies, from petrol bombers to robot dinosaurs, since 2001.
Idle business sim where every barrel of oil on the market was made and sold by a real player.
Text MMORPG for busy players, with fifteen trainable skills from mining and fishing to magic.
Prohibition-era Chicago mafia game of rackets, bootlegging stills, heists and crews, now in beta.
Retro 2D MMORPG where you tame monsters, forge gear and write books for the in-game library.
PvE space sandbox where exiled captains mine, craft, haul and build settlements across six galaxies.
Isometric pirate MMORPG with turn-based blade duels across a 221-location island.
Text-based mafia RPG where each one-month season is a race for respect, with city chat and PvP.
Small text-based mobster game with gangs, monthly content drops and player raffles.
Text-based fantasy MMORPG in the late-90s mould, with 19 classes, guild zone control and raids.
Co-op zombie survival where you join one of several camps and help its survivors hold the wall.
A small text-based crime RPG about climbing from street hustler to feared name.
Classless fantasy RPG on the continent of Almantra where you fight, craft, trade or play politics.
Collect, hatch and breed pixel dragons whose eggs only grow when other players look at them.
Old-school text RPG where you play a dragon building a kingdom and duelling other players.
An old-school clan battler kept online for a handful of remaining players.
Spend a daily pool of action points exploring monster-filled wilds for loot and rank.
Rebuilt fantasy text RPG of Spira with two cities, an arena, clans and mithril-tier crafting.
Nation-building strategy where real players run companies, win elections and fight wars.
Text-based idle skilling game in open alpha, with shared chat and player 'empires' instead of PvP.
Military-themed text MMORPG where you run missions and rise through the ranks of a regiment.
Skill-timer text RPG on Ralnera Island with 25 skills, clans and player shops.
Medieval text RPG where six races battle for Etheria on a daily energy budget.
Always-online idle MMORPG with three classes, per-skill talent trees, pets and three-player parties.
Hatch and empower creatures, unlock schools of magic and defend a kingdom alongside allies.
Old-school browser MMORPG of Saxon and Celtic legend that entered open beta in September 2026.
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Medieval MMORPG where players govern cities, baronies and empires through trade, diplomacy and war.
Travian-style settlement building and faction raids on a shared medieval map, with a battle pass.
Raise a frog, fish the swamp and brawl other players in a tiny virtual-pet world.
Real-time space empire MMO where federations race to fire a galaxy-resetting Ultimate Weapon.
Space economy sim where you build production chains and trade on a player-driven exchange.
A free text-based fantasy MMORPG with six classes, clans and a forest full of monsters.
Grid-based space exploration and combat where three factions fight over an X,Y galaxy.
An old-school mobster game where you build a crime family and knock around rival players.
Free space RPG where you trade, pirate, salvage or hack your way around a single star system.
Zero-player idle RPG where you are a god nudging a hapless hero who adventures on his own.
Beowulf-themed Norse adventure where your thane hunts Grendel across the nine worlds.
Seasonal medieval strategy where nobles hire, train and arm mercenaries to climb the ranks.
Crude text-based street-crime RPG where hobos fight, gang up and chase the richest rank.
Play a hobo who fights, begs, races shopping carts and trains rats in a free text RPG.
Genetics-based horse breeding game where you create breeds, train and enter player-run shows.
Server-side crafting idle game where artisans trade, form Conclaves and raid world bosses.
Space idle RPG that resolves a combat or harvesting action every six seconds, even while away.
Text-based idle hacking MMO where your rig mines resources and breaches networks for loot.
Text idle PBBG with role-based combat, gathering professions, guild bosses and an auction house.
A sandbox idle MMORPG in the spirit of Ultima Online, with around a hundred skills to master.
Old-school text MMORPG of monster slaying, kingdom building and dragon hunts.
Vampires, werewolves, hunters and hybrids feud in a text-based world that never resets.
Medieval estate-building and parish politics on a hand-drawn map of the real island of Gotland.
Early-beta text crime game where you read encounters and pick actions in a persistent city.
Text MMO where hacker and police teams fight for control of a 2046 cyber-city.
Asynchronous space 4X where alliances rally fleets and dial portal addresses to raid rival planets.
Island-conquest strategy in the Inselkampf mould, with fleets, colonies and alliance wars.
Stick-figure fantasy RPG that runs on puns, meat and a daily adventure budget.
Turn-based tactical duels on an isometric grid, with an ELO ladder and a shared city hub.
A text strategy MMO of 15-minute turns where armies raid souls and clans vote on wars.
Fast medieval raiding strategy in short rounds, built for players with 5-15 minutes a day.
Veteran text-based gangster roleplay where characters die for good and godfathers retire.
Seasonal text mafia game from Norway where families fight over cities and seasons end in a gallery.
Lead a Greek noble house in 300 BC Massalia, where one real day is one season.
Build and arm a mech army and out-plan rival commanders in a war game running since 2003.
Medieval trade simulator where player order books set every price in every town.
Revival of a slow real-time mining and trading economy that keeps digging while you are away.
A revived 2001 pixel MMORPG with eleven classes, dungeons and guild wars in an HTML5 client.
Manage MMA fighters in gyms, promotions and companies all run by other players, on real-world time.
A gang-based text crime MMO set in the neon streets of the 2020s.
A text-driven crime strategy MMO where heists, crews and crafted weapons build your empire.
A small real-time browser MMORPG with five switchable classes, world bosses and guest play.
Text-based crime MMO where gangs run heists and players trade on an open points market.
A free Pokémon-style monster-catching MMO with 2,000 monsters, 520 maps and live PvP.
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A dark text werewolf RPG of tribes, packs and territory fought beneath the moon.
Satirical text RPG where a rogue machine recruits ordinary people to rebuild the year 2426.
Long-running skilling MMORPG of gathering, crafting and guild trade across a fantasy kingdom.
Text fantasy RPG running since 2013 with 15 species, weekly Domain clashes and no resets.
Early-test browser RPG where gathering, crafting and fighting run one timed action at a time.
A Naruto-inspired text RPG where ninjas train jutsu, pick a village and vote in a Kage.
Found a civilisation, milk it for Legacy, then let it fall and build the next one on its ruins.
Govern a nation through daily dilemmas and regional politics.
Alpha fantasy RPG where education, real-time travel and reputation shape a character over months.
Terminal hacking sim where operators pick black, grey or white hat and duel for in-game stakes.
Greek-myth browser RPG of beast hunts, crafted gear, contested kingdoms and rival champions.
Design your own warships and conquer the galaxy in this French-language space strategy game.
Space strategyFree with purchases
Real-time trucking MMO where freight runs on real OpenStreetMap roads in your own city.
Bee-colony incremental where hives trade on a market and swarms fight off a giant hornet.
Prohibition-era mafia RPG where crime families fight over city rackets in seasonal rounds.
Text-based Caribbean pirate RPG where you level a character, hunt items and rob fellow pirates.
Asynchronous turn-based PvP strategy where you evolve a microbial colony and fight rival cells.
Evony-style city building, marches and alliance wars around an Imperial City, now with dragons.
A spreadsheet-friendly space economy MMO where every commodity is made and sold by players.
Semi-idle wasteland survival game where you run a crew of survivors and a base among rival factions.
Vampire text RPG running since 2006 with covens, quests and six hundred million battles fought.
Fantasy text RPG of monster fights, harvesting and crafting with stamina that keeps working for you.
Slow browser 4X where you build a star system in private, then light a beacon to join the galaxy.
Open-beta music career sim: write songs, form bands with other players and tour 180 cities.
Post-nuclear text RPG where clans pilot robotic exoskeletons and fight to survive.
An idle MMO of 30 skills, task queues and clan raids on a hand-painted map.
Browser crime RPG where gangs mug rivals in open PvP and raid dungeon-style mission sites for loot.
Browser action RPG with quests, boss fights, classes and faction war, formerly Raining Chain.
A dark-fantasy crime RPG of energy-gated deeds, heists and jailbreaks across four grim cities.
Text-based crime MMO of energy-fuelled crimes, careers and family wars across a persistent city.
Open-beta EMS text RPG of branching ambulance calls, with agencies fighting over twelve districts.
Cosy browser MMO where every player is a slime, skilling and bossing in one shared world.
Multiplayer idle RPG of skilling, dungeon keys, crafting and a 600-piece collection to chase.
An Italian-language mafia RPG in open beta with clans, smuggling runs and casino games.
Sci-fi empire builder where planets grow populations, trade on markets and scheme against rivals.
A 2D pixel-art fantasy MMORPG with action combat that runs straight from a browser tab.
Mobile-friendly gangster MMO in beta with crimes, car theft, gang businesses and Russian roulette.
Persistent fishing MMO with a tension-bar fight, a player market and crews sharing ten waters.
Terminal-driven strategy where players rule squares on a 900-cell grid ticking every seven minutes.
Old-school text RPG where a daily mana reset rations your fights, trades and alliances.
Dutch-built text mafia game of crimes, jobs and crews competing in seasons, installable as a PWA.
Age-of-sail MMORPG of skilling, hauling contracts and port trade on a live map of the sea.
Band management sim where you write, release and tour against real players on nightly charts.
Village-building war strategy with three factions, alliance banners and protected night hours.
Text-based street crime game where thugs chase respect, riches and turf with no resets.
Text RPG where heroes patrol a far-future galaxy to beat back the Titans of Olympus.
A free 3D browser MMORPG in the vein of vanilla WoW and EverQuest, still in early access.
Mages-only idle RPG: timed tower expeditions feed a forge, guilds and a player-run Black Market.
Run a small European haulage firm, buying trucks and trailers and picking cargo jobs.
Fantasy team manager where you sign champions and play one auto-battled league match a day.
A UK text-based mafia game played in numbered rounds that wipe everything except recent purchases.
Text-based street-racing crime RPG where crews race, rob and fight for the underground.
Text-based mafia game where families war over cities while you climb from petty crook to godfather.
Retro text MMORPG where you roam a Norse world, hunting beasts and Valkyries for rank.
Vampires and lycans train, prowl and form Houses to fight 48-hour wars over territory.
Turn-based barony game in the BBS-door tradition: fifteen turns a day for raids, delves and sieges.
Space-opera strategy where player fleets fight real-time battles and trade across a galaxy.
Energy-driven nation sim where players work factories, fight wars and run for office on a world map.
Text-based medieval RPG of quests, colosseum fights, guilds and treasure hunting with no resets.
Real-time grand strategy in a fractured 1970s alternate-history empire.
Noir text mafia game across ten cities where you pull jobs, run rackets and climb nine ranks.
Co-op hard-science space MMO flown with real physics across a 1:1 Solar System.
Urban Dead
ClosedMalton's low-fi zombie apocalypse, played a few clicks a day from 2005 until it closed in 2025.
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Text-based 204Graphical 159Turn-based 60Real-time 146PvP 257PvE 179Guilds and factions 254Player economy 173Energy system 40Open source 3Mobile apps 61Mobile-friendly 74No download 35Long-running 111Permadeath 9Seasons or rounds 64Roleplay 35Co-op 494X 15Diplomacy 50Crafting 89Sandbox 10Collecting 34