Based on our record, WrittenRealms seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 14 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
For a real 'ease them into it' experience, there's written realms, which has a lovely modern UI. However, I did find that once you get past the tutorial it's a little confusing/sparse. Similar goes for Genesis - beautifully remade tutorial, great ascii map etc. Extremely old, so a lot of detail, but also a bit overwhelmingly huge and sprawling once you're out there. I would describe both as easy to navigate. Source: about 1 year ago
Https://writtenrealms.com/ is an attempt at just that, but I personally feel their interface could use some improvements - playing through sub menus suck, and it still require text input for some basic actions in-between, which makes it cumbersome on mobile as it tries to blend both menu gameplay and typing gameplay. It is also very slow to navigate menus and battles etc. The game also runs on community generated... Source: over 1 year ago
If you want to make your own text based game, to begin, use some sort of website tool such as https://writtenrealms.com/. Source: over 1 year ago
Written Realms has a great playable experience in-browser, even on a phone. I'm not sure if there are others with a similar mobile-friendly web client. Having a client-free mobile experience like that is a long term goal of mine for the mud I'm working on, but it is tough on a 25 year old codebase that was designed for telnet. :). Source: almost 2 years ago
Lots exist today, quick search Https://writtenrealms.com. Source: almost 2 years ago
Lectrote - A portable Interactive Fiction games interpreter application
textadventures.co.uk - Create, play and share text adventure games.
Mudlet - Mudlet is a freshly-minted MUD client, designed to take mudding to a new level.
Playfic - Playfic is an online community that lets you write, remix, share, and play interactive text-based...
Text Fiction - Play classic text adventure games like Zork or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on your Android smartphone for free!
Interactive Fiction Archive - Online interactive fiction archive