Realms of Despair can be played using a terminal emulator that supports Telnet. Features provided by such terminal emulators are limited when compared to purpose-built MUD clients which commonly support features such as:
- aliases
- macros
- scripting
- triggers
On top of these features, some MUD clients also support displaying graphical elements such as health and experience bars as well as mappers. If you are interested in these features, you should read our GUI Plugins page to see which clients Realms of Despair has official plugins for.
 | BlowTorch Website: www.bt.happygoatstudios.com OS: Android |  | CMUD Website: www.zuggsoft.com OS: Windows |
 | Mudlet Website: www.mudlet.org OS: Windows, OS X, Linux |  | MUSHclient Website: www.mushclient.com OS: Windows This client is supported with an official GUI plugin. |
 | TinTin++ Website: tintin.sourceforge.net OS: Windows, OS X, Linux |