Play by Email Games
Play-by-email (PBM) is a method of online gaming that is at least as old as the Internet itself. There is still an active email gaming community, and you don't need the latest hardware or hundreds of hours of spare time to get involved.
Turn-based multiplayer tactical space combat with gamma-ray lasers, fusion warhead missiles, and kinetic kill weapons. Animated game turns are delivered by HTML-enabled email.
This company hosts a variety of veteran play by email games, including Quest, Space Troopers, Warlord, Chairman, and Phoenix.
Matrix Games offers a variety of turn-based strategy games with an old-school board game feel. Many of these games have play-by-email capabilities, including Empires in Arms, Battleground Civil War, Napolean in Italy, Advanced Tactics: WWII, Commander: Europe at War, and others.
Medieval Diplomacy is a strategic PBM wargame that uses a graphical interface to facilitate gameplay.
Build a merchant empire or command a mighty army in this email game from Scott Turner.
Highly graphical PBM strategy game for Windows that is free to download and play.
A sophisticated science fiction game with very open gameplay and human moderation. Features a mix of roleplaying and tactical combat.
Greg Lindahl's extensive PBM and play-by-email list.
This is a Yahoo Group founded to support an email version of the famous board game. They take a novel program/database approach to controlling game functions.
Game information is handled by email in this fantasy soccer league based on teams taken from different divisions in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Windhammer PBM game is a 415 section adventure set in the mythic realms of Arborell. It is freely available to all who wish to journey into a land of magic and conflict.
A play-by-email fantasy RPG set on mythical islands in a fictional, open-ended world. Like most RPGs, you create a character and set out to explore new lands, only in this case you play in turns and issue orders by email.
