Medievia – Do You Dare Enter?
medievia.com
medievia.com
"The power of a text game has never fully been explored. While other multiplayer worlds are designing for more frames per second, we are designing for more things to do and new ways for people to play together, but most importantly new ways for them to become family. While other expensive games must purge their playerbase and force everyone to start over so they can cash in on the next big buck and the next version, the free Medievia game world has been getting more real and more feature-rich for over two decades, and here your character will live forever, even as we upgrade daily."
They are proud of what they have made. It sounds interesting like, dwarf fortress but you're the dwarf. Might give it a go.
What Medevievia gets right is in the details. For example, they aren't the first game to have interesting and deadly weather that the player has to navigate. They aren't the first game to have the player travel long distances. They aren't the first game to implement hauling goods between far flung outposts.
But in my opinion these 3 mechanics are implemented to intentionally interact and be balanced in such a way as to make the experience of trading goods and traveling in the world feel just right.