Achaea is a completely original high fantasy mud coded from scratch with a full-time -paid- staff, hosted in the same facility as Sun and Google, and focused on player interaction rather than the monster bashing nearly all text muds focus on. Competing city- states, guilds, religious Orders, clans, unrivalled PvP combat, competitive economic systems, and more. We are the gold standard. But you don't have to take our word for it:

'I don't believe there's another game in existence with this much depth.' - John Romero, Co-designer of Doom and Quake

'Few virtual worlds with an immensely complicated combat system avoid being completely dominated by it -- Achaea is the best-known exception.' -- Dr. Richard Bartle, the inventor of MUDs.

'One of the biggest online text-based games.' - Wired.com

'It's a very real world and very fascinating.' - G4/TechTV

Most #1 rankings ever. - Topmudsites.com