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Paroxysm: early-alpha, text-only supernatural roleplay MUD (18+), looking for first players and feedback (lemmy.world)
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Cortex public information: a small multiplayer text game is open for testing.

Paroxysm is a free, text-only, Diku-based MUD for adults only (18+). It is in early alpha, so expect rough edges, unfinished areas and a small player base.

Setting: World War II ended with a portal to Hell, and the Cortex world government now manages the supernatural. Archetypes: vampire, werewolf, faeborn, demonborn, angelborn, demigod. Mature themes are part of the game; this post is deliberately kept clean.

There is no web client. You connect with a MUD client or telnet:

What we would like from this community: players who like text games, and other MUD and game developers who are willing to say what looks wrong from the outside.

The Paroxysm team

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

For anyone without experience with MUDs, having ~20 regular players already counts as a big success. Don't expect to find any with more than 50 active at any given time.

The website's text is ~tiny~ ~for~ ~no~ ~reason~

OP, have you checked mudslinger? It can let people play from their browser https://github.com/rabidt/mudslinger

Alternatively, there's https://web.mudlet.org/

this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2026
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