Tick-based space war in short seasonal rounds, in the spirit of early-2000s text strategy games.
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Text-based browser games
Played mostly through text and menus rather than graphics.
204 games
Raise a sarcastic alien in Novigrad: school, mining, fishing, casino nights and abducting humans.
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.
Iron Realms' dark-fantasy MUD where vampires, 32 classes and player politics meet in text.
Harsh fantasy island sandbox where eight tribes of settlers fight, craft and trade to survive.
A medieval-fantasy MUD of three rival cities and fourteen guilds with an HTML5 web client.
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.
Skill-training text MMORPG where mining, crafting and guild prestige feed a player market.
Idle fantasy MMORPG of gathering, crafting, dungeons, guild wars and a shared player market.
Fantasy RPG in a kingdom gone dark after its king vanished, offered in sixteen languages.
Basketball manager with daily matches, national and international leagues and player trading.
Slow-paced medieval strategy and roleplay where nobles fight realm wars in two turns a day.
Free cricket management against human managers, with one-day, first-class and T20 competitions.
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.
Small text gangster RPG with no resets, where you train, collect gear and take on your rivals.
Post-nuclear vampire clans fight for dominance in a Polish text MMORPG with several realm types.
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.
A slow text-based society simulator where players build every town, law and culture themselves.
Narco crime RPG of drug production, hired sicarios and cartel territory wars.
A 2007-vintage text gangster RPG with crimes, gang wars, jobs, marriage and casino minigames.
Prohibition-era Chicago mafia game of rackets, bootlegging stills, heists and crews, now in beta.
A menu-driven fantasy MMORPG built around short tactical fights and a player-run exchange.
PvE space sandbox where exiled captains mine, craft, haul and build settlements across six galaxies.
OGame-style empire building across several fast universes with fleets, pirates and alliances.
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.
Free text city crime MMO of gangs, gym training and company-building on the streets.
Text-based fantasy MMORPG in the late-90s mould, with 19 classes, guild zone control and raids.
Cyberpunk text MMO with AFK progression, co-op boss fights and progress synced across devices.
Vampires, werewolves and slayers wage a free text war over the ruins of the Soviet Union.
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.
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.
Text-based idle RPG of skilling, slayer tasks, world bosses, guilds and weekly PvP ladders.
Turn-based modern nation building, carrying on the Earth:2025 tradition across several servers.
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.
Text-based idle skilling game in open alpha, with shared chat and player 'empires' instead of PvP.
Idle sci-fi RPG of simultaneous mining and gun-fights on a newly colonised alien planet.
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.
Seasonal mafia RPG across five US cities where death archives your character for good.
A nation-building strategy MMO where real players run countries, companies and wars.
Medieval text RPG where six races battle for Etheria on a daily energy budget.
Hatch and empower creatures, unlock schools of magic and defend a kingdom alongside allies.
Literary interactive fiction in a Victorian London dragged beneath the earth.
An old-school text-and-icon fantasy MMO with a thousand levels of realms to grind through.
Cosy menu-based farming MMO where you grow, fish, craft and trade with a friendly in-game chat.
Medieval MMORPG where players govern cities, baronies and empires through trade, diplomacy and war.
Satirical turn-based RPG where internet archetypes raid fictional forums.
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.
Shared-galaxy space empire game with six asymmetric races and a universe-wrecking superweapon.
A free text-based fantasy MMORPG with six classes, clans and a forest full of monsters.
An old-school mobster game where you build a crime family and knock around rival players.
Round-based text gangster game where crimes, families and shootouts reset every 15 weeks.
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.
Zero-player idle RPG where you are a god nudging a hapless hero who adventures on his own.
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.
Real-time space empire game: conquer planets by infiltration or invasion in year-long rounds.
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.
Set a loop and come back later: a persistent idle MMO with a player market and monthly Zone Control.
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.
Hourly-tick space empire game where player families conquer planets across round-based galaxies.
Iron Realms' PvP-heavy fantasy MUD on the continent of Aetherius, played in a web client.
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.
Seasonal text crime MMO where crews run heists and organised crime and fight to control states.
Prohibition-era text mafia game about rising through the ranks of La Cosa Nostra.
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 text strategy MMO of 15-minute turns where armies raid souls and clans vote on wars.
Found a house in Westfall, raise a keep and a warlord, and raid the lords around you for gold.
Fast medieval raiding strategy in short rounds, built for players with 5-15 minutes a day.
A roleplay-heavy text MUD of player-run cities, communes and guilds, playable in the browser.
Fantasy grind RPG with guild raids, area bosses and auto-battle that keeps going offline.
Veteran text-based gangster roleplay where characters die for good and godfathers retire.
Turn-based mob wars game with short rounds, families, city control and prizes every round.
Timer-driven crime RPG where you steal cars, run heists and war with rival gangs.
An old-school text mafia game of killing, stealing and mugging your way up the ranks.
Prohibition-era text crime game with families, booze runs, 1920s racing and a hitlist.
Small free text mafia RPG with daily updates, gangs and a front-page board of top mobsters.
Text mafia game of mugging, gambling and gang warfare with a forum that posts daily.
1950s text mafia RPG with crimes, gangs, bounties, car racing and a live player market.
Norwegian text mafia game where theft builds your rank and getting killed means starting over.
Seasonal text mafia game from Norway where families fight over cities and seasons end in a gallery.
Idle fantasy MMORPG where your character keeps acting while you are away and guilds matter.
Lead a Greek noble house in 300 BC Massalia, where one real day is one season.
Free football management across 38 national leagues competing in one shared game world.
Build and arm a mech army and out-plan rival commanders in a war game running since 2003.
Live a medieval life from plebeian to ruler in a roleplay-heavy strategy world across Europe.
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.
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.
The long-running text mafia RPG where syndicates war across thirty cities every fortnight.
A Dutch-run mafia MMORPG with organised crimes, families and a stock market, free of pay walls.
A text-driven crime strategy MMO where heists, crews and crafted weapons build your empire.
Text-based crime MMO where gangs run heists and players trade on an open points market.
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.
Govern a nation through daily dilemmas and regional politics.
Text-based mafia RPG where families hold territory and your empire outlives your character.
Alpha fantasy RPG where education, real-time travel and reputation shape a character over months.
Action-point PvP RPG where angels, demons and mortals fight to shape the next reborn world.
Terminal hacking sim where operators pick black, grey or white hat and duel for in-game stakes.
Cyberpunk text MMO of turn-based party fights, six professions and organisations warring over zones.
The space empire classic: mines, fleets and raids across a persistent universe.
Coach one tennis pro from rookie to world number one against thousands of other managers.
Open-source remake of Dominion: text-based realm warfare in hourly ticks over seven-week rounds.
Tick-based fantasy war game from 2001 where tribes fight in alliances across repeating ages.
A menu-and-map MMORPG online since 2002 where crews raid Gods and Bosses for rare loot.
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.
A human-moderated space empire game whose storyline has run continuously since 1992.
Text-based Caribbean pirate RPG where you level a character, hunt items and rob fellow pirates.
Round-based space warfare where galaxies and alliances fight over asteroids tick by tick.
Modern nation-building game where alliances, treaties and trade decide wars between real players.
Asynchronous turn-based PvP strategy where you evolve a microbial colony and fight rival cells.
Text-based prison RPG where inmates train, fight, mug and trade across several jails.
Free football manager from 2007 where you train a squad and run a stadium in a league of players.
A spreadsheet-friendly space economy MMO where every commodity is made and sold by players.
Round-based humans-versus-zombies city survival game played on a slow energy timer.
Text-based idle MMORPG where your fighter grinds monsters while you plan parties and villages.
Medieval idle MMORPG with five-player parties, village wars on a live map and an open API.
Norse text RPG of raids, blood feuds and warbands, played in a browser tab.
Semi-idle wasteland survival game where you run a crew of survivors and a base among rival factions.
A sandbox fantasy MMORPG of faction contracts, crafting stations and a player-run marketplace.
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.
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.
Rebuilt medieval knight MMO where empires seize cities, levy tolls and fund buildings.
Feudal-Japan text RPG of training, clan wars and preying on weaker samurai across two worlds.
Browser crime RPG where gangs mug rivals in open PvP and raid dungeon-style mission sites for loot.
A dark-fantasy crime RPG of energy-gated deeds, heists and jailbreaks across four grim cities.
Action-point jungle island game where native tribes, outsider camps and pirates hunt and clash.
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.
Text-based football career game: train one player, sign sponsors and play 11v11 for a player club.
Text-based space 4X where Imperials, Nomads and warlords claim stars in one shared galaxy.
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.
Open-source space trading and piracy game where alliances fight over sectors and ports.
Volunteer-run Star Wars sandbox where factions trade, travel and fight in real time since 1998.
Idle hacking RPG of timed missions, White Hat or Black Hat paths and a PvP arena.
A gangster MMORPG online since 2007 with city trading, crews, turf and player-owned casinos.
Old-school medieval skilling MMO spread across fifteen islands, played through text and timers.
Country-building war game from 1999 where rounds of two weeks to a month decide the top nation.
Mobile-friendly gangster MMO in beta with crimes, car theft, gang businesses and Russian roulette.
Text-based gangster game played in short rounds, from petty robberies to gang heists.
A mobile-first mafia RPG of crimes, heists and family wars across ten city districts.
Medieval fantasy RPG where a daily stamina budget feeds nearly 100 skills, crafts and town politics.
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.
Mafia strategy game reset every ten days, where families race to the top of the round.
Dutch-built text mafia game of crimes, jobs and crews competing in seasons, installable as a PWA.
Old-school text strategy where rival mages build kingdoms that reset every three months.
Band management sim where you write, release and tour against real players on nightly charts.
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 text-based crime MMO where the city never sleeps and neither do your rivals.
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.
Build factories, shops and a trucking fleet to top a 70-day business round.
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.
Text-based fantasy kingdom warfare where provinces band together across long ages.
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.
Classic text vampire RPG set in Death Valley, with quests, dark magic and coven rivalries.
Turn-based business MMO where thousands of player companies compete across 200 industries.
Text-based space MMO of cargo runs, smuggling, bounties and syndicates on a shared sector map.
Text-based medieval RPG of quests, colosseum fights, guilds and treasure hunting with no resets.
A classic group-based fantasy browser RPG where heroes crawl dungeons together in turns.
Text-based mafia PvP game of missions, heists and shootouts for control of your mob.
Text-based wasteland RPG of scavenging, settlement-building and turn-based car combat.
Noir text mafia game across ten cities where you pull jobs, run rackets and climb nine ranks.
Text-based zombie survival MMO of scavenging, stronghold building, factions and raids.
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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