The Door Menu

Same idea as the old board — pick a door, kill some time. Nothing to install. Most run right here on the board; Legend of the Red Dragon is a bigger multiplayer world, so it opens in its own window.

• Legend of the Red Dragon

  Multiplayer RPG · the big one

  The classic LORD — fight your way through the forest toward the Red Dragon, level up, buy weapons and armor, duel other players, and flirt your way to charm at the Inn. This one's multiplayer and it remembers your progress, so it has its own separate login (not your chat account). Make a character and check back daily.

  Play Legend of the Red Dragon (opens in a new window)

• DopeWars

  Trading game · solo

  The old Drug Wars door — buy low, sell high across the boroughs, dodge the cops, and clear your debt to the loan shark before 30 days run out. The one a lot of you actually remember.

  Deal DopeWars

• A Dark Room

  Text adventure · solo

  You wake by a dying fire with nothing but the cold. Light it, and see what comes. Starts as almost nothing and quietly turns into something much bigger — the closest thing here to the spirit of an old text door.

  Enter A Dark Room

• 2048

  Number puzzle · solo

  Slide the tiles, match the numbers, chase 2048. Dead simple to start, deceptively hard to finish. Works with arrow keys or a swipe on your phone.

  Play 2048

• Hextris

  Arcade puzzle · solo

  Tetris folded onto a hexagon. Spin the block to stack matching colors before they pile up. Speeds up the longer you last. Easy to learn, hard to put down.

  Play Hextris

More To Come

A multiplayer draw-and-guess game (the old Scribblers) is on the list — the kind where everybody piles into the same room at once. That one needs a bit more setup, so it'll turn up later. If there's an old door you remember and miss, let me know.

All of these are open-source, hosted here with their original licenses kept alongside them. Credit to their authors — Legend of the Green Dragon by Eric Stevens & JT Traub (the open-source homage to Seth Able's LORD), DopeWars by Nicolas Hurtubise, A Dark Room by Michael Townsend, 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli, and Hextris by the Hextris team.