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146 games
A free fantasy MUD online since 1996, with 28 classes, clans and hundreds of areas to map.
The flagship Iron Realms MUD: a text world of player-run cities, 20 classes and politics.
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.
Iron Realms' dark-fantasy MUD where vampires, 32 classes and player politics meet in text.
Medieval kingdom warfare on a shared map, with slow marches and six-week Ages.
A medieval-fantasy MUD of three rival cities and fourteen guilds with an HTML5 web client.
Space hauling and commodity trading in a shared galaxy run from a terminal-style browser UI.
Real-time space empire strategy with bases, fleets and alliances, running since 2006.
Planet-building space strategy with alliances and fleet battles across several universes.
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.
A slow text-based society simulator where players build every town, law and culture themselves.
Casino tycoon MMO where everyone builds in the same real-time Vegas-style city.
Retro 2D MMORPG where you tame monsters, forge gear and write books for the in-game library.
Online idle MMO of 19 linked skills, a player-priced auction house and clan Holds.
Steampunk sky-island empire builder with seasons and a live guild war every Tuesday night.
A menu-driven fantasy MMORPG built around short tactical fights and a player-run exchange.
OGame-style empire building across several fast universes with fleets, pirates and alliances.
Cyberpunk text MMO with AFK progression, co-op boss fights and progress synced across devices.
Zombie survival MMO with an outpost market and a city you loot on foot.
Collect, hatch and breed pixel dragons whose eggs only grow when other players look at them.
Nation-building strategy where real players run companies, win elections and fight wars.
Browser nation simulator with 78 countries where players are soldiers, politicians and tycoons.
Skill-timer text RPG on Ralnera Island with 25 skills, clans and player shops.
Seasonal mafia RPG across five US cities where death archives your character for good.
Medieval MMORPG where players govern cities, baronies and empires through trade, diplomacy and war.
Cast a line, come back later and see what bit in a fishing idler running since 2008.
Flyff's anime 3D MMORPG rebuilt in WebGL so it runs in any browser on PC, Mac or phone.
Travian-style settlement building and faction raids on a shared medieval map, with a battle pass.
City-building strategy that marches one city from the Stone Age into the future.
An anime-styled avatar hangout with forums, a player marketplace and mini-games since 2003.
Real-time space empire MMO where federations race to fire a galaxy-resetting Ultimate Weapon.
Shared-galaxy space empire game with six asymmetric races and a universe-wrecking superweapon.
Space economy sim where you build production chains and trade on a player-driven exchange.
Grid-based space exploration and combat where three factions fight over an X,Y galaxy.
Licensed Westeros castle-building strategy with alliance wars across global servers.
Free space RPG where you trade, pirate, salvage or hack your way around a single star system.
The original LPMud, a text fantasy world from 1989 you can play in a browser tab.
Modern geopolitics where citizens rise to command armies and win elections in real countries.
Build a medieval castle, raise an army and fight alliance wars across four kingdoms.
Beowulf-themed Norse adventure where your thane hunts Grendel across the nine worlds.
A Lineage 2-inspired fantasy MMORPG with raid bosses, clan fortresses and offline farming.
Play-money market where traders buy shares in actors and films that have not opened yet.
Genetics-based horse breeding game where you create breeds, train and enter player-run shows.
Horse-breeding and equestrian-centre management game with competitions and a huge player market.
Real-time space empire game: conquer planets by infiltration or invasion in year-long rounds.
Space idle RPG that resolves a combat or harvesting action every six seconds, even while away.
Set a loop and come back later: a persistent idle MMO with a player market and monthly Zone Control.
Medieval estate-building and parish politics on a hand-drawn map of the real island of Gotland.
Medieval empire builder where alliances of emperors fight realm-wide wars in real time.
Iron Realms' PvP-heavy fantasy MUD on the continent of Aetherius, played in a web client.
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.
Post-apocalyptic hive-city RPG with clan warfare, raids and crafting, running since 2005.
A roleplay-heavy text MUD of player-run cities, communes and guilds, playable in the browser.
Timer-driven crime RPG where you steal cars, run heists and war with rival gangs.
Idle fantasy MMORPG where your character keeps acting while you are away and guilds matter.
A free virtual-pet world of daily quests, dozens of games and a player-run economy.
Revival of a slow real-time mining and trading economy that keeps digging while you are away.
A three-week economic simulation where thousands trade, govern and police a shared Federation.
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 small real-time browser MMORPG with five switchable classes, world bosses and guest play.
Long-running skilling MMORPG of gathering, crafting and guild trade across a fantasy kingdom.
Early-test browser RPG where gathering, crafting and fighting run one timed action at a time.
Found a civilisation, milk it for Legacy, then let it fall and build the next one on its ruins.
The 1999 virtual-pet site where you feed Neopets, play games and trade in a player-run economy.
Slow real-time galactic conquest where weeks-long games hinge on alliances and betrayal.
Alpha fantasy RPG where education, real-time travel and reputation shape a character over months.
Real-time space 4X where alliances war across a 15,000-system galaxy that never pauses.
A persistent space 4X where human players share the galaxy with clearly labelled AI empires.
Terminal hacking sim where operators pick black, grey or white hat and duel for in-game stakes.
The space empire classic: mines, fleets and raids across a persistent universe.
Greek-myth browser RPG of beast hunts, crafted gear, contested kingdoms and rival champions.
Open-source remake of Dominion: text-based realm warfare in hourly ticks over seven-week rounds.
Real-time trucking MMO where freight runs on real OpenStreetMap roads in your own city.
Graphical space trading and combat in real time, rationed by action points that refill over the day.
A persistent space 4X where you can command fleet battles live from a ship's bridge.
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.
Medieval idle MMORPG with five-player parties, village wars on a live map and an open API.
Multiplayer railway tycoon where associations grow their city through six eras of trains.
Roleplay a 15th-century European life, from village baker to elected count, in a player-run economy.
Slow browser 4X where you build a star system in private, then light a beacon to join the galaxy.
Politics, economics and war on a real-world map where every leader is another player.
Open-beta music career sim: write songs, form bands with other players and tour 180 cities.
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.
Planet-building space strategy where captains research, colonise and fight over a spiral galaxy.
Real-time space strategy in numbered rounds: colonise planets, design ships and war as clans.
Cosy browser MMO where every player is a slime, skilling and bossing in one shared world.
Text-based space 4X where Imperials, Nomads and warlords claim stars in one shared galaxy.
A space 4X of colony economies, supply lines and seasonal galaxies.
Volunteer-run Star Wars sandbox where factions trade, travel and fight in real time since 1998.
A 2D pixel-art fantasy MMORPG with action combat that runs straight from a browser tab.
World War I grand strategy with up to 500 players per map in campaigns that run for weeks.
Old-school medieval skilling MMO spread across fifteen islands, played through text and timers.
A mobile-first mafia RPG of crimes, heists and family wars across ten city districts.
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.
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.
Build a medieval island economy, send generals against bandit camps and trade with your guild.
Village-building war strategy with three factions, alliance banners and protected night hours.
A 3D Norse-mythology hack-and-slash MMORPG played in the browser via Game Hollywood.
A free 3D browser MMORPG in the vein of vanilla WoW and EverQuest, still in early access.
Run a small European haulage firm, buying trucks and trailers and picking cargo jobs.
Kings and governors build tribes of villages and fight over treasures in six-month rounds.
Village-building strategy where alliances race to raise a Wonder of the World.
Medieval village-building strategy where tribes raid, conquer and race to win each world.
Viking MMO strategy where clans of jarls raid towns and fight for each kingdom's Place of Power.
Geopolitical MMO where citizens fight wars, run companies and stand for office in real countries.
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 strategy where players lead real countries and battalions in seasonal world wars.
Real-time grand strategy in a fractured 1970s alternate-history empire.
Co-op hard-science space MMO flown with real physics across a 1:1 Solar System.
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