Full game metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Steam app type | game |
| Steam App ID | 688930 |
| Live current players | 0 |
| SteamPulse tracked peak | 3 |
| Live count (today's peak floor) | 0 |
| Price | Free to play |
| Free to play | Yes |
| Discount | 0% |
| Original price USD | — |
| Current price USD | Free |
| Release date | Oct 23, 2017 |
| Developer | Darren N Lory |
| Publisher | Formsmatter |
| Owners estimated | Not available |
| SteamSpy owner estimate minimum | 0 |
| SteamSpy owner estimate maximum | 20,000 |
| Review type | Mostly Positive |
| Positive review percent | 79% |
| Positive reviews | 22 |
| Negative reviews | 6 |
| Total reviews | 28 |
| Steam recommendations | Not available |
| Achievements | Not available |
| Average playtime forever | Not available |
| Windows support | Yes |
| macOS support | No |
| Linux support | No |
| Parent game | Not available |
| Store URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/688930/ |
Short description
Two windows applications install to any Windows Computer: Ansi compliant telnet text MUD Server and Client and their VB6 source code, heavily SQL coded with support and admin commands. I run my server on a 1000Mhz x 2 processor 7nm HP fanless laptop.
About this game
CITY OF AGES [as of May 2026, 57671 downloads, approximately 6300 a year, retro gaming is clean fun] ! WHY PLAY THIS MULTIPLAYER GAME? DO YOU ENJOY COMMAND LINE DRIVEN GAMING? LIKE TO LEARN COMMANDS THAT DO SOMETHING MAGICAL and COOL like WIZARDY? MINI DOOR GAMES INSIDE THIS PACKAGE! CoA HAS ONE OF EVERYTHING: GREAT JOKES, EVERY RANDOM ITEM TYPE, mini GAMES get offered to you ! THIS IS THE GAME YOU ALL BADLY WANTED and NEEDED THAT RUNS ON ANY LAPTOP ! YOU CAN USE YOUR TABLET or PHONE and dial-in with TELNET to this SERVER and play a family safe game ! HOMEWORK? YOUR RELATIVES WANT YOU TO PLAY THIS GAME, its Textcraft, no graphics, no arguments, right? GET YOUR LAST COLLECTORS RETRO ASCII GAME - PERSISTANT WORLD - OPEN WORLD - OPTIMIZED CODE - STABLE CODE - FAST SQL CODE - BUILT IN TELNET SERVER - BUILT IN SQL SERVER [select statement report ability] - SUPPORTS BITMAP and TEXT - MINI-DOOR GAMES - FULLY INTEGRATED BITMAP GRAPHICAL CLIENT - and we are another earner of the Title: 'Titan of Text' due to the contribution level of this game. This is a highly stable computer game that comfortably supports 46 players without relying on instances. Our multi-user dungeon includes everything you’d expect from other MUDs, plus features found in many 3D graphical games. With no instances, it offers a world that feels as real as current technology allows, while maintaining low system requirements. 2026 - THE CLIENT AND SERVER ARE FINISHED [Original release: 1998] - ALPHA BETA phases are completed - thanks to all your email suggestions over the years! ** If you want to join us at our Official server - go over to our Discussions Section. Zerotier and/or direct IP connect! The year is 1979. You are bored and you cannot find your friends or their bicycles on anyone's lawn. You do not have a fun thing to do today. So you decided you have been away too long from your Ascii games. You have been war dialing random phone numbers for hours around the city, and you found it, City of Ages ! You finally found a Bulletin Board System to dial into with your 1200 baud modem. You download this game, you are ready to login, finding yourself at a prompt, and you type the games…
Supported languages
English * * languages with full audio support