Includes all computer-based role-playing games. There are many variants, from text to graphical, offline to online, solo to multiplayer.

MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing game

MOO - MUD - Object Oriented

MUD - Multi-User Dungeon

MUSH - Multi-User Shared Hallucination

SCRPG^[+] - Solo Computer-based Role-playing Game

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