Broadly speaking there are two big "threads" to follow here. You have your MUDs (Multi-User Dungeon)[1] & MOOs (MUD, Object Oriented)[2] which are played over the network, and are more or less the text based equivalent to MMORPGs. Then you have your IF (Interactive Fiction)[3] / text adventure game that installs and runs locally like the old Infocom games. There is, of course, some overlap here.
You can find lists and links for MUDs and MOOs in several places, but one good resource is mudlistings.com[4]. For Interactive Fiction / text adventures, try the IFReviews[5] and IFdb[6] sites.
If you want specific recommendations... I'd say start with the canonical OG interactive fiction game, Colossal Cave[7]. It's available from the distro package managers on most Linux systems as "adventure" or "advent" or something along those lines. Another interesting one is "Battlestar"[8] which is usually available as part of the "bsdgames" package.
For a good MUD, I'm personally a fan of Avatar[9].
You can find lists and links for MUDs and MOOs in several places, but one good resource is mudlistings.com[4]. For Interactive Fiction / text adventures, try the IFReviews[5] and IFdb[6] sites.
If you want specific recommendations... I'd say start with the canonical OG interactive fiction game, Colossal Cave[7]. It's available from the distro package managers on most Linux systems as "adventure" or "advent" or something along those lines. Another interesting one is "Battlestar"[8] which is usually available as part of the "bsdgames" package.
For a good MUD, I'm personally a fan of Avatar[9].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction
[4]: https://mudlistings.com/
[5]: http://www.ifreviews.org/
[6]: https://ifdb.org/
[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
[8]: https://www.ifwiki.org/Battlestar
[9]: https://www.outland.org/news.php