Tick-based space war in short seasonal rounds, in the spirit of early-2000s text strategy games.
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PvP browser games
Players fight, raid or compete against each other.
257 games
Raise a sarcastic alien in Novigrad: school, mining, fishing, casino nights and abducting humans.
A free fantasy MUD online since 1996, with 28 classes, clans and hundreds of areas to map.
Pixel-art fantasy MMO of turn-based monster fights, raids, guilds and an endless tower.
The flagship Iron Realms MUD: a text world of player-run cities, 20 classes and politics.
An indie MMORPG where JavaScript you write runs up to four characters around the clock.
Classic village-building strategy where empires fight to dominate servers lasting 4-6 months.
Iron Realms' dark-fantasy MUD where vampires, 32 classes and player politics meet in text.
Medieval kingdom warfare on a shared map, with slow marches and six-week Ages.
Harsh fantasy island sandbox where eight tribes of settlers fight, craft and trade to survive.
Idle fantasy MMO where squads raid for days while you craft, trade and theorycraft.
A gritty text-based MMORPG of genetically enhanced beasts fighting for a ruined city.
Idle fantasy MMORPG of gathering, crafting, dungeons, guild wars and a shared player market.
Real-time space empire strategy with bases, fleets and alliances, running since 2006.
Run a corporation in a growing galaxy where ten-minute turns move goods, votes and fleets.
Basketball manager with daily matches, national and international leagues and player trading.
Slow-paced medieval strategy and roleplay where nobles fight realm wars in two turns a day.
Free cricket management against human managers, with one-day, first-class and T20 competitions.
A multilingual mafia browser game with a police HEAT meter, casino empires and 60-day seasons.
Run a 1942 crime syndicate in a fictional wartime New York district with turf wars and stocks.
Small text gangster RPG with no resets, where you train, collect gear and take on your rivals.
Post-nuclear vampire clans fight for dominance in a Polish text MMORPG with several realm types.
Planet-building space strategy with alliances and fleet battles across several universes.
Round-based war strategy game of odd armies, from petrol bombers to robot dinosaurs, since 2001.
Text MMORPG for busy players, with fifteen trainable skills from mining and fishing to magic.
Narco crime RPG of drug production, hired sicarios and cartel territory wars.
A 2007-vintage text gangster RPG with crimes, gang wars, jobs, marriage and casino minigames.
Prohibition-era Chicago mafia game of rackets, bootlegging stills, heists and crews, now in beta.
Steampunk sky-island empire builder with seasons and a live guild war every Tuesday night.
A menu-driven fantasy MMORPG built around short tactical fights and a player-run exchange.
Isometric pirate MMORPG with turn-based blade duels across a 221-location island.
OGame-style empire building across several fast universes with fleets, pirates and alliances.
Graphical mafia empire game with family crews and rankings, available in nineteen languages.
CrimeUnknown
Text-based mafia RPG where each one-month season is a race for respect, with city chat and PvP.
Small text-based mobster game with gangs, monthly content drops and player raffles.
Free text city crime MMO of gangs, gym training and company-building on the streets.
Text-based fantasy MMORPG in the late-90s mould, with 19 classes, guild zone control and raids.
Vampires, werewolves and slayers wage a free text war over the ruins of the Soviet Union.
Zombie survival MMO with an outpost market and a city you loot on foot.
Classless fantasy RPG on the continent of Almantra where you fight, craft, trade or play politics.
Turn-based fantasy browser RPG with mounts, dragons and two warring factions.
Turn-based fantasy MMORPG from 101XP set in a world rebuilt after a Titan invasion.
Old-school text RPG where you play a dragon building a kingdom and duelling other players.
Rebuilt fantasy text RPG of Spira with two cities, an arena, clans and mithril-tier crafting.
Text-based idle RPG of skilling, slayer tasks, world bosses, guilds and weekly PvP ladders.
Turn-based modern nation building, carrying on the Earth:2025 tradition across several servers.
Nation-building strategy where real players run companies, win elections and fight wars.
Browser nation simulator with 78 countries where players are soldiers, politicians and tycoons.
Seasonal mafia RPG across five US cities where death archives your character for good.
Server-run turn-based idle RPG with PvP ratings, co-op nightmare bosses and seasonal realms.
A nation-building strategy MMO where real players run countries, companies and wars.
Medieval text RPG where six races battle for Etheria on a daily energy budget.
Browser grinder RPG where four Great Houses fight over a shared 10x10 battlefield map.
RPGFree with purchases
Always-online idle MMORPG with three classes, per-skill talent trees, pets and three-player parties.
Daily-tick fantasy war game where players conquer the regions of Midia one order at a time.
Hatch and empower creatures, unlock schools of magic and defend a kingdom alongside allies.
Medieval MMORPG where players govern cities, baronies and empires through trade, diplomacy and war.
Flyff's anime 3D MMORPG rebuilt in WebGL so it runs in any browser on PC, Mac or phone.
Travian-style settlement building and faction raids on a shared medieval map, with a battle pass.
City-building strategy that marches one city from the Stone Age into the future.
Satirical turn-based RPG where internet archetypes raid fictional forums.
Raise a frog, fish the swamp and brawl other players in a tiny virtual-pet world.
Real-time space empire MMO where federations race to fire a galaxy-resetting Ultimate Weapon.
Shared-galaxy space empire game with six asymmetric races and a universe-wrecking superweapon.
Space conquest game in which one undeveloped world grows into a fleet-backed empire.
Space strategyUnknown
Grid-based space exploration and combat where three factions fight over an X,Y galaxy.
Fantasy RPG built for two short sessions a day, with rune stones, +9 forging, arena and guild wars.
RPGFree with purchases
Licensed Westeros castle-building strategy with alliance wars across global servers.
An old-school mobster game where you build a crime family and knock around rival players.
Round-based text gangster game where crimes, families and shootouts reset every 15 weeks.
Free space RPG where you trade, pirate, salvage or hack your way around a single star system.
Modern geopolitics where citizens rise to command armies and win elections in real countries.
Zero-player idle RPG where you are a god nudging a hapless hero who adventures on his own.
Build a medieval castle, raise an army and fight alliance wars across four kingdoms.
A Lineage 2-inspired fantasy MMORPG with raid bosses, clan fortresses and offline farming.
The original online football manager, with a season rhythm set since 1997.
Seasonal medieval strategy where nobles hire, train and arm mercenaries to climb the ranks.
Crude text-based street-crime RPG where hobos fight, gang up and chase the richest rank.
Play a hobo who fights, begs, races shopping carts and trains rats in a free text RPG.
Real-time space empire game: conquer planets by infiltration or invasion in year-long rounds.
Vampires, werewolves, hunters and hybrids feud in a text-based world that never resets.
Medieval estate-building and parish politics on a hand-drawn map of the real island of Gotland.
Medieval empire builder where alliances of emperors fight realm-wide wars in real time.
Hourly-tick space empire game where player families conquer planets across round-based galaxies.
Medieval hero RPG from the Imperia Online studio with guild battles and a long roster of foes.
RPGUnknown
Iron Realms' PvP-heavy fantasy MUD on the continent of Aetherius, played in a web client.
Early-beta text crime game where you read encounters and pick actions in a persistent city.
Text MMO where hacker and police teams fight for control of a 2046 cyber-city.
Seasonal text crime MMO where crews run heists and organised crime and fight to control states.
Asynchronous space 4X where alliances rally fleets and dial portal addresses to raid rival planets.
Island-conquest strategy in the Inselkampf mould, with fleets, colonies and alliance wars.
Turn-based tactical duels on an isometric grid, with an ELO ladder and a shared city hub.
Fashion life-sim where you style a model, decorate her flat and duel rivals in the arena.
RPGFree with purchases
Medieval-fantasy grind RPG with 800-plus monsters, forged gear and villages to conquer.
RPGFree with purchases
Post-apocalyptic hive-city RPG with clan warfare, raids and crafting, running since 2005.
Pick Humans or Magmars and fight for Faeo in a browser MMORPG with clans and labyrinth raids.
RPGFree with purchases
A text strategy MMO of 15-minute turns where armies raid souls and clans vote on wars.
Found a house in Westfall, raise a keep and a warlord, and raid the lords around you for gold.
Fast medieval raiding strategy in short rounds, built for players with 5-15 minutes a day.
Fantasy empire game mixing tactical creature battles with an economy of estates and markets.
A roleplay-heavy text MUD of player-run cities, communes and guilds, playable in the browser.
Veteran text-based gangster roleplay where characters die for good and godfathers retire.
Turn-based mob wars game with short rounds, families, city control and prizes every round.
Timer-driven crime RPG where you steal cars, run heists and war with rival gangs.
Free mafia MMORPG spanning several cities with gang wars, businesses and quests.
An old-school text mafia game of killing, stealing and mugging your way up the ranks.
Prohibition-era text crime game with families, booze runs, 1920s racing and a hitlist.
Small free text mafia RPG with daily updates, gangs and a front-page board of top mobsters.
Text mafia game of mugging, gambling and gang warfare with a forum that posts daily.
1950s text mafia RPG with crimes, gangs, bounties, car racing and a live player market.
Norwegian text mafia game where theft builds your rank and getting killed means starting over.
Seasonal text mafia game from Norway where families fight over cities and seasons end in a gallery.
Lead a Greek noble house in 300 BC Massalia, where one real day is one season.
Free football management across 38 national leagues competing in one shared game world.
Build and arm a mech army and out-plan rival commanders in a war game running since 2003.
Live a medieval life from plebeian to ruler in a roleplay-heavy strategy world across Europe.
Revival of a slow real-time mining and trading economy that keeps digging while you are away.
A three-week economic simulation where thousands trade, govern and police a shared Federation.
A revived 2001 pixel MMORPG with eleven classes, dungeons and guild wars in an HTML5 client.
Manage MMA fighters in gyms, promotions and companies all run by other players, on real-world time.
A gang-based text crime MMO set in the neon streets of the 2020s.
The long-running text mafia RPG where syndicates war across thirty cities every fortnight.
A Dutch-run mafia MMORPG with organised crimes, families and a stock market, free of pay walls.
A text-driven crime strategy MMO where heists, crews and crafted weapons build your empire.
Text-based crime MMO where gangs run heists and players trade on an open points market.
A free Pokémon-style monster-catching MMO with 2,000 monsters, 520 maps and live PvP.
RPGFree
Run a fantasy town, send adventurers on quests and race rival mayors in the arena.
A dark text werewolf RPG of tribes, packs and territory fought beneath the moon.
Satirical text RPG where a rogue machine recruits ordinary people to rebuild the year 2426.
Text fantasy RPG running since 2013 with 15 species, weekly Domain clashes and no resets.
A Naruto-inspired text RPG where ninjas train jutsu, pick a village and vote in a Kage.
Found a civilisation, milk it for Legacy, then let it fall and build the next one on its ruins.
The 1999 virtual-pet site where you feed Neopets, play games and trade in a player-run economy.
Slow real-time galactic conquest where weeks-long games hinge on alliances and betrayal.
Text-based mafia RPG where families hold territory and your empire outlives your character.
Action-point PvP RPG where angels, demons and mortals fight to shape the next reborn world.
Real-time space 4X where alliances war across a 15,000-system galaxy that never pauses.
Tile-based fantasy MMORPG of turn-based fights, seven gathering trades, guild towns and ships.
A persistent space 4X where human players share the galaxy with clearly labelled AI empires.
Terminal hacking sim where operators pick black, grey or white hat and duel for in-game stakes.
Cyberpunk text MMO of turn-based party fights, six professions and organisations warring over zones.
The space empire classic: mines, fleets and raids across a persistent universe.
Greek-myth browser RPG of beast hunts, crafted gear, contested kingdoms and rival champions.
Manage a boxing club, train young fighters and chase belts in ranking fights and leagues.
Sports managerFree with purchases
Coach one tennis pro from rookie to world number one against thousands of other managers.
Open-source remake of Dominion: text-based realm warfare in hourly ticks over seven-week rounds.
Design your own warships and conquer the galaxy in this French-language space strategy game.
Space strategyFree with purchases
Tick-based fantasy war game from 2001 where tribes fight in alliances across repeating ages.
Graphical space trading and combat in real time, rationed by action points that refill over the day.
Prohibition-era mafia RPG where crime families fight over city rackets in seasonal rounds.
A human-moderated space empire game whose storyline has run continuously since 1992.
Text-based Caribbean pirate RPG where you level a character, hunt items and rob fellow pirates.
Age-of-sail trading and piracy game where nations, ports and guilds are run by the players.
Gear-grinding fantasy RPG where you craft, enchant and settle kingdoms across connected planes.
RPGFree
A persistent space 4X where you can command fleet battles live from a ship's bridge.
Round-based space warfare where galaxies and alliances fight over asteroids tick by tick.
Modern nation-building game where alliances, treaties and trade decide wars between real players.
Asynchronous turn-based PvP strategy where you evolve a microbial colony and fight rival cells.
Evony-style city building, marches and alliance wars around an Imperial City, now with dragons.
Text-based prison RPG where inmates train, fight, mug and trade across several jails.
Free football manager from 2007 where you train a squad and run a stadium in a league of players.
Round-based humans-versus-zombies city survival game played on a slow energy timer.
Medieval idle MMORPG with five-player parties, village wars on a live map and an open API.
Norse text RPG of raids, blood feuds and warbands, played in a browser tab.
Semi-idle wasteland survival game where you run a crew of survivors and a base among rival factions.
A sandbox fantasy MMORPG of faction contracts, crafting stations and a player-run marketplace.
Vampire text RPG running since 2006 with covens, quests and six hundred million battles fought.
Slow browser 4X where you build a star system in private, then light a beacon to join the galaxy.
Politics, economics and war on a real-world map where every leader is another player.
Post-nuclear text RPG where clans pilot robotic exoskeletons and fight to survive.
Rebuilt medieval knight MMO where empires seize cities, levy tolls and fund buildings.
Feudal-Japan text RPG of training, clan wars and preying on weaker samurai across two worlds.
Browser crime RPG where gangs mug rivals in open PvP and raid dungeon-style mission sites for loot.
A dark-fantasy crime RPG of energy-gated deeds, heists and jailbreaks across four grim cities.
Action-point jungle island game where native tribes, outsider camps and pirates hunt and clash.
Text-based crime MMO of energy-fuelled crimes, careers and family wars across a persistent city.
Open-beta EMS text RPG of branching ambulance calls, with agencies fighting over twelve districts.
Planet-building space strategy where captains research, colonise and fight over a spiral galaxy.
Real-time space strategy in numbered rounds: colonise planets, design ships and war as clans.
Cosy browser MMO where every player is a slime, skilling and bossing in one shared world.
Text-based football career game: train one player, sign sponsors and play 11v11 for a player club.
Text-based space 4X where Imperials, Nomads and warlords claim stars in one shared galaxy.
An Italian-language mafia RPG in open beta with clans, smuggling runs and casino games.
Open-source space trading and piracy game where alliances fight over sectors and ports.
Sci-fi empire builder where planets grow populations, trade on markets and scheme against rivals.
A space 4X of colony economies, supply lines and seasonal galaxies.
Volunteer-run Star Wars sandbox where factions trade, travel and fight in real time since 1998.
Idle hacking RPG of timed missions, White Hat or Black Hat paths and a PvP arena.
A gangster MMORPG online since 2007 with city trading, crews, turf and player-owned casinos.
World War I grand strategy with up to 500 players per map in campaigns that run for weeks.
Old-school medieval skilling MMO spread across fifteen islands, played through text and timers.
Country-building war game from 1999 where rounds of two weeks to a month decide the top nation.
Mobile-friendly gangster MMO in beta with crimes, car theft, gang businesses and Russian roulette.
Text-based gangster game played in short rounds, from petty robberies to gang heists.
A mobile-first mafia RPG of crimes, heists and family wars across ten city districts.
Terminal-driven strategy where players rule squares on a 900-cell grid ticking every seven minutes.
Old-school text RPG where a daily mana reset rations your fights, trades and alliances.
Mafia strategy game reset every ten days, where families race to the top of the round.
Old-school text strategy where rival mages build kingdoms that reset every three months.
Band management sim where you write, release and tour against real players on nightly charts.
Anime-style ninja RPG with round-based hex battles, villages and clans in the world of Seichi.
Village-building war strategy with three factions, alliance banners and protected night hours.
Text-based street crime game where thugs chase respect, riches and turf with no resets.
Football management MMO where your club climbs leagues against millions of other managers.
Sports managerFree with purchases
A text-based crime MMO where the city never sleeps and neither do your rivals.
Kings and governors build tribes of villages and fight over treasures in six-month rounds.
Village-building strategy where alliances race to raise a Wonder of the World.
Fantasy team manager where you sign champions and play one auto-battled league match a day.
Medieval village-building strategy where tribes raid, conquer and race to win each world.
A UK text-based mafia game played in numbered rounds that wipe everything except recent purchases.
Text-based street-racing crime RPG where crews race, rob and fight for the underground.
Text-based mafia game where families war over cities while you climb from petty crook to godfather.
Collectible card battler set in Clint City, with a player market and four-minute duels.
Text-based fantasy kingdom warfare where provinces band together across long ages.
Vampires and lycans train, prowl and form Houses to fight 48-hour wars over territory.
Dark-fantasy idle MMORPG of endless skill training, boss hunts and a player-priced market.
Viking MMO strategy where clans of jarls raid towns and fight for each kingdom's Place of Power.
A tick-based fantasy war game where kingdoms of rulers fight two-month eras on a shared map.
Text-based space MMO of cargo runs, smuggling, bounties and syndicates on a shared sector map.
Geopolitical MMO where citizens fight wars, run companies and stand for office in real countries.
Turn-based barony game in the BBS-door tradition: fifteen turns a day for raids, delves and sieges.
Space-opera strategy where player fleets fight real-time battles and trade across a galaxy.
Energy-driven nation sim where players work factories, fight wars and run for office on a world map.
Text-based medieval RPG of quests, colosseum fights, guilds and treasure hunting with no resets.
A classic group-based fantasy browser RPG where heroes crawl dungeons together in turns.
A cute-pet fantasy MMORPG with four classes, frequent server launches and an Android app.
RPGFree with purchases
Real-time strategy where players lead real countries and battalions in seasonal world wars.
Text-based mafia PvP game of missions, heists and shootouts for control of your mob.
Real-time grand strategy in a fractured 1970s alternate-history empire.
Text-based wasteland RPG of scavenging, settlement-building and turn-based car combat.
Noir text mafia game across ten cities where you pull jobs, run rackets and climb nine ranks.
Text-based zombie survival MMO of scavenging, stronghold building, factions and raids.
Urban Dead
ClosedMalton's low-fi zombie apocalypse, played a few clicks a day from 2005 until it closed in 2025.
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Text-based 204Graphical 159Turn-based 60Real-time 146PvE 179Guilds and factions 254Player economy 173Energy system 40Open source 3Mobile apps 61Mobile-friendly 74No download 35Long-running 111Indie 169Permadeath 9Seasons or rounds 64Roleplay 35Co-op 494X 15Diplomacy 50Crafting 89Sandbox 10Collecting 34