Text Fiction Alternatives

Mudlet is a freshly-minted MUD client, designed to take mudding to a new level.

It’s a new breed of a client on the MUD scene – with an intuitive user interface, a specially designed scripting framework, and a very fast text display. Add to that cross-platform capability, an ope.

Windows Frotz is an interpreter that can play all the old Infocom text adventures. Infocom used a novel approach to write their games: they had a system that produced a data file for the adventure that was the same on every computer, and an interpreter for every computer that...

TinTin++, aka tt++, is a free MUD client for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. The Windows port named WinTin++ (using the PuTTY derived mintty terminal) is available for those who do not use Cygwin (A Linux/Unix emulator for Windows) and runs on Windows Xp, Windows Vista, and...

Gargoyle is an IF player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.

BlowTorch is a basic telnet client that supports the following features that people find helpful for playing MUDs.

A portable Interactive Fiction games interpreter application.

Are you tired of the constant grind of the graphical MMO games? Tired of paying monthly subscription fees? Try playing one of the hundreds of free text-based adventure games on the Internet using CMUD: The fastest and most versatile MUD client from the creator of zMUD.

Create and play interactive fiction on your Android phone or tablet. Also known as text adventures, interactive books, playable novels, z-machine, glulx, tads, terps.

"You wake up on a sunny August morning with birds singing, and the air fresh and clear. However, your joints are stiff and you have not woken up in your bedroom as you would have expected. Trying to recall what happened the night before, you manage to piece together a few...

Windows Git is an interpreter for Glulx games. Windows Git consists of a core interpreter called Git, and an input/output library, called Windows Glk. Together these two components form the Windows Git package, which has been created by David Kinder.

32-bit MUD/telnet client, supporting ANSI color, macros, triggers, scripting in LUA, built-in timers, MXP and MCCP support. MUSHclient is user friendly, and quite a powerful MU* client.

Axmud is a modern Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client, written in Perl 5 / GTK 2, and known to run on Windows and Linux.