Choose how you view MUD statistics, and explore the population of a typical game.
Switch between chart views. The MUD Statistics page now offers bars, doughnuts, and tables for server-reported categories, directory categories, and collection coverage. Population bands offer bars and tables. Doughnuts group smaller categories together, while bars and tables let you see every category.
Keep the games you are exploring. Changing a chart view keeps your selected category and matching-game results open, including your current results page. Your choice of view is included in the URL, so you can share it or return to it using your browser history.
More ways to read activity patterns. On an individual game’s statistics page, hourly and weekday activity can now be shown as lines, bars, or a table with average player counts and sample counts. The weekly heatmap remains available, and switching back restores your chosen chart style.
See how the typical game is doing. Choose Typical game population in the global activity chart to see the median of the reporting games’ daily player averages. Each game has equal weight, and a shaded band shows the middle 50% of those averages. This complements the total-player chart, where larger games have more influence.
The population trend uses game-reported player counts, not unique people. Weekly and monthly views average the daily medians and shaded bounds. Missing days stay as gaps, and changes in which games report can affect the trend. A preparation message appears until the new population figures are available.
More ways to explore your favorite games and the wider MUD community.
A new home for MUD statistics. Explore the MUD Statistics page for player activity over time, game population sizes, and charts covering codebases, languages, and other characteristics of the games MUDVerse observes. Server-reported MSSP data and MUDVerse directory information have their own tabs, so you can see where each view comes from.
Interactive charts for individual games. Follow player counts and reported world details such as rooms, areas, and helpfiles. Switch between daily, weekly, and monthly views, explore longer date ranges, and hover over a chart to see its values. Comparisons and trend overlays make changes easier to spot.
Find your time to play. The player activity views show patterns by hour and day of the week, with a timezone selector, weekday and weekend filters, and tooltips that appear immediately.
More context for the numbers. Observed Server Restarts and the collection timeline help you explore changes alongside the times MUDVerse gathered data. Collection coverage distinguishes recorded outcomes from periods where we do not have that information.
Easier navigation. Game pages now include a 90-day player history preview and links to more statistics. On the statistics page, tabs and filters update charts without a full page reload or sending you back to the top.
A better view of the past. We have processed our collected history into hourly and daily summaries, making older trends easier to explore while retaining the original observations. Charts can show daily lows, highs, and averages, then bring longer periods together into weekly or monthly views.
Faster access for API users. Prepared statistics and latest-report lookups reduce the work needed to serve game data and player history. The old json.php endpoint has been retired; developers should use the key-authenticated API v1.
Player figures are reported by game servers and reflect the games MUDVerse has observed. They describe reported activity, rather than unique people or a complete census of every MUD. Start with the global charts, or open a favorite game and choose View Game Graphs.
Better support for international text with UTF-8.
MUDVerse now stores active application text using full UTF-8 (utf8mb4), supporting accented characters, non-Latin scripts, and emoji in the database.
Game searches now handle international text without the character-conversion errors that could previously interrupt a search. Existing case-insensitive and accent-aware search behavior is preserved.
We also reviewed and repaired older game names, descriptions, and tags where incorrectly stored text had left garbled accents or punctuation.
MUDVerse is a free online game listing and directory site. Do you want to list a MUD? MUDVerse specializes in listing text-based games such as MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHs. We also take pride in providing an easily editable database of both telnet and browser-based games. If you are searching for a new game to play or looking to get more exposure for a game you play or helped create, you have come to the right place. It is free to list a MUD game on MUDVerse.
Add Your Game
Listing your game on MUDVerse is free and easy. We offer a detailed game listing page that lets you select your game’s features and functionality from a variety of choices. You can also upload a banner image to display with your listing. If you include your game website, your banner can link players directly to it.
Game Advertising
If a free listing is not getting your game enough exposure, we offer monthly advertisement plans in which banner ads for your game appear on various pages, maximizing exposure.
