The Best 8 Text Fiction Alternatives

  • Mudlet

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • TinTin++

    TinTin++, aka tt++, is a free MUD client for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • BlowTorch

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

    Free Android

  • CMUD

    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...

    Commercial Windows

  • MUSHclient

    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...

    Free Windows

  • Lectrote

    The Interactive Fiction interpreter in an Electron shell Lectrote currently supports: Glulx games (.ulx or .gblorb), as produced by Inform 7. Z-code games...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac Electron / Atom Shell

  • Fabularium

    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.

    Free Android