DragonRealms
Skill-based fantasy text MMORPG from Simutronics, set in Elanthia, where characters advance through guilds and live GameMaster events.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Games Like GemStone IV
Multiplayer games that share genres, features and gameplay with GemStone IV, ordered by similarity.
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and trading
Materia Magica
Fantasy MUD set in the world of Alyria, free to play with an optional subscription and a strong focus on screen reader accessibility.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and character classes
Achaea
Long-running fantasy MUD from Iron Realms with city-state politics, a deep class roster and a combat system built around afflictions and cures.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
Threshold RPG
High fantasy MUD where roleplay is required and enforced, open since 1996 with guilds, religions, clans and player-made law.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
Alter Aeon
Fantasy MUD with free multiclassing across six classes, over 1,000 quests and strong support for blind and visually impaired players.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and character classes
Lusternia
Iron Realms fantasy MUD built around rival city-states and nature communes, yearly story arcs and a wide range of trade skills.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
Ancient Anguish
Free medieval fantasy LPMud open since 1992, with 11 classes, 8 guilds, a skill system and a long player history.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and character classes
Aetolia
Dark fantasy MUD from Iron Realms where vampires, necromancers and holy orders vie for control of a world in its Midnight Age.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and character classes
BatMUD
Finnish-run medieval fantasy MUD online since 1990, with a huge open world, many guilds and races, and an optional graphical client on Steam.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
Medievia
Free fantasy MUD from the early 1990s with a large wilderness, ships and an undersea world, dragons, trade caravans and player towns.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
DurisMUD
Full-loot PvP fantasy MUD where good and evil races wage a constant war across a surface world and the Underdark.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and character classes
Tibia
One of the oldest running MMORPGs: a 2D top-down fantasy world from CipSoft with tough hunting, harsh death penalties and open PvP worlds.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
Carrion Fields
Hardcore, roleplay-required dark fantasy MUD with cabal faction wars, 21 races and 17 classes, entirely free with no paid perks.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and character classes
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues
A fantasy online RPG from the creator of Ultima, with classless skills, player towns and housing, and a choice of solo, friends or full online play.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
MU Online
One of the early Korean 3D MMORPGs, a medieval fantasy hunting game with heavy item upgrading and castle sieges.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
Aardwolf
Free fantasy MUD known for its large world, hundreds of quests, a custom client with maps, and a progression system built around levels and remorts.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and character classes
Conquer Online
A long-running martial arts MMORPG from NetDragon, with Eastern myth settings, guild wars and class-based PvP.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and trading
Ragnarok X: Next Generation
Gravity's next-generation Ragnarok MMORPG for mobile and PC, focused on classic jobs, free trading between players and fair loot.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
Rappelz
A fantasy MMORPG where pets and tamed creatures fight alongside the player, with three races and job advancements.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and trading
Last Chaos
A fantasy MMORPG with large faction wars, guild castle sieges and eight classes, now run by Fawkes Games.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and trading
Federation 2
Text space trading game where players haul cargo, rise through ranks and eventually own and run their own planets.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvE, player economy and trading
Genesis MUD
The first LPMud, created in Sweden in 1989 and still running as a free fantasy text adventure with races, guilds and crafting.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP and pvE
Discworld MUD
Fan-run, humorous text MUD set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, with over a million rooms, seven guilds and player-made law.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and player economy
Realms of Despair
The original SMAUG MUD, a free medieval fantasy world open since 1994 with prestige classes, clans, orders and nations.
- MMORPG
- RPG
Shared: MMORPG / RPG, with pvP, pvE and character classes