PBM / PBEM List Index: closed-ended

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Sub-Categories:

abstract (24)
commercial (59)
computer moderated (106)
economic (65)
email (162)
fantasy (60)
free (157)
free-moderation (10)
french (14)

german (21)
graphical client (47)
historical (61)
human moderated (77)
computer/human mod (46)
modern (72)
open-ended (5)
open source software (9)

role-playing (65)
postal mail (32)
space (40)
spanish (3)
sports (31)
star trek (9)
wargame (127)
web-based play (94)

Announcements in this category:

New Game: Urban Empire
New Game: Stargate: The Next Generation
New Game: Royal Kingdoms
New Game: Future Balance of Power
New Game: Merchant Raider 4.3
Merchant Raider 4.3 is imminent!
The Dragon Rider Email Fantasy RPG Game!
VOID - Check out the YouTube movie!
New Game: ES-02
Veteran looking for new players to teach a great wargame!
(Nov 10, 2009)
(Nov 03, 2009)
(Oct 26, 2009)
(Oct 11, 2009)
(Oct 11, 2009)
(Oct 10, 2009)
(Oct 02, 2009)
(Sep 24, 2009)
(Sep 15, 2009)
(Sep 15, 2009)

Games in this category:

1776 (wargame)
1939 World Wide Battle Plan (Wargame)
A Republica das Bananas (political RPG)
ACW Virginia (historical, strategy)
Adventurer's Arena AD+D v3.5 (Fantasy)
Aevum Obscurum (strategy, historical, empires in 1300 Europe, risk like)
Age of Conquest PBeM (Strategic Wargame)
Age of Wonders (fantasy wargame)
Agenda:004 (modern nation simulation)
Alamaze (Global conquest - Fantasy)
Ali Sabra's Champions Cup I (Soccer (Football) Fantasy game)
All Year Fantasy Football (Computer Simulated Fantasy Football)
Alphasim Hockey Simulation (Web based Management Hockey Sim)
Ancient Battles (wargame)
Arcane Journeys (Web-based Fantasy&Sci-fi single player games)
Archipel (corsair wargame)
Ashes of Empire, the (strategic space game)
Atlantic Premier League (football (soccer) management, ESMS)
Austerlitz (historical (Napoleonic) wargame)
Austerlitz - Der Aufstieg des Adlers (historical wargame)
Austerlitz - The Rise of the Eagle (Historical Simulation)
Back of the Net (Free PbEM Football Management sim)
Barbarians at the Gate (Historical Wargame)
Battle Plan (Wargame - conquer Europe)
Boardgames (Boardgame abstract)
Britannia (Historical boardgame)
Campaign Ohio (wargame)
Casting Call (Movie Making)
Cazorp Mines (AD&D 3ed Email Adventure)
Civil War OnLine (U.S. Civil War Wargame)
Clans (Fantasy Empire Wargame)
Commander - Europe at War (Strategic WW2 turn based strategy in the vein of Panzer General. )
Continental Rails 2 (economic, historical, rails)
Cooper Crazy league (Fantasy )
Covert Operations (defunct) (Conspiracy/wargame)
Creatures of the Night (fantasy, wargame)
CTF2187 (Tactical Sci-Fi)
Dark Age (Historical Wargame)
Diplomacy (email version of Hasbro's pure strategy game)
Diplomacy DE (strategic board game)
Diplomacy Ludomaniac (strategy diplomacy)
Domination (strategy)
Dominions (fantasy wargame)
Dragonlords! Fantasy Wargame (Fantasy Wargame)
Duality (Non-system specific role playing email sim)
Dutch Electronic Soccer LEAGUE (email soccer game)
Emergency Theater Live (paramedic/firefighter role play based on Emergency, the1970's TV series)
Empire Deluxe (wargame)
Empire Diplomacy (fantasy wargame, diplomacy)
Empire Forge (free fantasy wargame)
Empire Forge II (fantasy pbem wargame)
Empires of the Middle Sea (ancient war game, pbem, strategy, diplomacy, empire building)
Engle Matrix Games (mystery, horror, spy, wargame)
ES-02 (RPG PBP Sci-Fi Collaborative Story)
Far Horizons (a) (space opera, strategy)
Far Horizons (b) (space opera, strategy)
Far Horizons (Source Code) (space strategy)
Feudal Lords (Medieval strategy)
Feudal Lords (other) (Medieval turn-based PBM game)
Feudallords (Medieval wargame with lots of diplomacy)
FLASHES BEFORE YOUR EYES (Cinematic action espionage)
Forgotten Realms -- War of the Avatars (fantasy wargame)
From The Kickoff (Soccer, Manager, Online,)
Future Balance of Power (Political Strategy Game)
Galactic Conflict (space wargame)
Galactic Conqueror (strategic, economic/military, space opera setting)
Galaxy (strategic, economic/military, space opera setting)
Galaxy PLUS (diplomatic sf wargame, free, strategy, most popular PBeM game in Russia)
GangWar (Strategy)
Global Combat (Strategic wargame)
Global Diplomacy (strategic, economic/military, 19th century setting)
Gondor, Battle of the Lost Realms (Fantasy wargame)
Grand Strategy (Strategy)
Hexem II (Very simple wargame)
Hivewars (Exploration Wargame)
Hoplite Encounter (Wargame set in Classical Greece)
horrors of the past (Dungeons &Dragons 3.5 forgotten realms RPG)
Hyborian War (fantasy wargame)
Hyperdrive II (Space exploration and conquest)
Imperial Expansion (Space explore and conquest)
Imperium (medieval war mmorpg)
Imperium (canadian) (strategic, economic/military, 19th century setting)
Iridear: Land of the 5 temples (war diplomacy strategy fantasy)
It's a Crime (UK Version) (Mafia type Play by Email game)
King of Kings: Albion II (Arthurian Britain scenario wargame)
Kingdoms of Arcania (fantasy wargame)
Laser Squad Nemesis (two player, squad level, email strategy game)
Le Nécromant (Middle Earth Diplomacy)
Legends (English) (Fantasy mixed Role Playing and Empire)
Legends (German) (Strategic Fantasy)
Liga Virtual de Fútbol MareMagnuM (fantasy football (soccer))
Lizards! (Fantasy wargame)
Lords of Gyrne (Fantasy Strategy Wargame)
Matrix Hockey (Hockey simulation)
Medieval Warlords (War Game of the Middle Ages)
Mega Hyper Galactic Conquest (MHGC) (Space conquest stategic wargame)
Merchant Raider 4.3 (feudal empires at sea)
Middle Earth Play by Mail (Fantasy Wargame)
Miller Systems WW2 Campaign (Global Strategy)
Mobius I (Science Fiction / Conquer the Galaxy)
Morne Plaine (Napoleonian wargame)
MUTANT FUTURE pbem (pbem,post apoc,rpg)
Mythicor (Strategic Fantasy)
Napoleonic Battles (wargame)
Napoleonic Empires (Historical Wargame)
Naruto D20: Cursed (fantasy naruto d20)
NCAA Management Game (College Football Management Game)
Nebula (Space conquest)
NeverEve III (AD&D Fantasy PBEM)
Nim International (nation, simulator, simulation, wargame, cold war)
NISL (fantasy indoor soccer)
Nuclear Destruction (wargame)
Online Strategy Game Fall of Rome (12-Player Online Multiplayer Strategy Wargame)
Origins of World War II (AH) (Political/Strategic)
Ork (fantasy empire-building game)
Ostrakism (roleplaying + diplomatic)
Othello (challange your mind game)
PalatiumIII (Free, Diplomacy, Strategic, Wargame)
Panzer General 2 (War game, WW2 simulation, PBEM club, )
Pelagoria (strategy, political, exploration, wargame,)
Pheonix League (Soccer Management)
PLAYtoSOR (Be the best e-truchmuche producer)
PROMETHEUS (Civilisation Clone)
qick, competitive rpg (straight-action rpg, not much "role plazing")
Raider (War at Sea)
Reach for an Empire (grand strategy)
Reversi V3.4 (Reversi)
Richard Rognlie's Abstract Games Server (2 or more player abstract games)
Rise and Fall (Strategic Roman Empire v. Barbarians)
Risky Wars! (Abstract wargame)
rock-paper-scissors (zero sum game between 2 players)
role playing game (promoing,interviews)
Royal Kingdoms (medieval strategy game)
RPG Gathering (open-game multi-genre board)
RSW (Science fiction simulation)
Ruins of Rome (Role Playing Fantasy Wargame)
Sengoku (Strategic Warfare in Feudal Japan)
Serim Ral (Fantasy Wargame)
Serim Ral 2nd Edition (fantasy wargames)
Seven (Logic Board Game similar to Connect 4)
Seven Descending (horror-fantasy, fiction, modern, seven deadly sins)
SFLSL (Football/Soccer)
Shards of Moonlight (fantasy adventure)
Shogunate: Warlords of the Rising Sun (Strategic Wargame)
Simuland.net (Firm simulation game)
Sniper Free For All (wargame)
Soccergame.de - Fussball Pbem (Fussball-Tippspiel)
Space Conquest (Strategi, Wargame)
Space Wing: Void Patrol (space fighters dogfights)
Speculate (Economics)
Sphere of Influence (historical strategy)
Spiral Arm (Space Strategy)
Star Fleet Warlord (space campaign using star fleet battles background )
Star Wars Notes (Star Wars)
StarCluster (space strategy)
Stargate: SG-4 (stargate, pbem)
Stargate: The Next Generation (Based on Stargate franchise)
Starport: Galactic Empires (space online)
Stars! (space opera)
Starweb (Science Fiction Simulation)
Suicide Squad PBEM (Superheroes/villains)
SYMMACHIA (diplomatic pbm in the hellenistic world (229 BC))
TavernLore (Beta Test #1) (Fantasy MMORPG, PBEM/Forum, ORG combined!)
TCR Games (PBEM RPG Games)
The Caves of Doom (ADD 2nd Ed)
The Island Frontier (Fantasy diplomatic civilisation style game)
The Mansion (Modern Mature Intrigue)
The USS Barcelona (Star Trek Simulation)
The Weapon (war and strategy in space)
the World of Manager (fantasy sports)
Third Millenium (web-based space exploration and conquest)
Threshold: The Descent (Room X) (Horror)
Total Warfare (Fantasy Land Conquest)
Travian (Browser, war, tribes, village, rule, conquer)
Trigger and Sieco's Fantasy Football (fantasy football management, english clubs)
Tryn-Trava ( (fantasy funny wargame)
U.S.S. Odyssey NCC-71832-A (Star Trek PBeM Sim)
UCFL Football League (PBEM Football)
Ultra Cricket (Sports Simulation)
United Soccer League (E-mail soccer manager)
Urban Empire (Crime)
USS Paladin (star trek)
USS Viking (Space Opera)
USS Washington (Star Trek Play by E-mail)
Valhalla (Fantasy Sci-Fi Wargame)
VGA Planets 3.0
VIRTUAL BIGGER BROTHER (Text based big brother game)
Virtual Speedway Manager (Speedway (Bikes) Management Simulation)
Void (Epic Cyberpunk Role Playing Game)
Wakenipa Sports Exchange - Rugby World Cup 2007 (Fantasy sports)
War of the Dark God (fantasy wargame)
WAR OF WIZARDS (fantasy empire building game of magic)
Warlord (Wargame)
Weewar (Turnbased strategy Web game (modern cenario))
World at War (Canada) (Wargame (WWII style))
World at War (Team Game) (wargame (wwii style))
world club championships (fantasy football)
World Conquest (wargame)
world Fantasy Rugby (Rugby Union)
World of Kaomaris (Multiplayer conquest of a map by diplomacy and warfare.)
World of Trexlin (Free form, fantasy, wargame)
World War II Simulation (realistic WWII wargame)
World Wide Battle Plan (wargame)
Wrestling Weekly (Technical skills)
XWP Writing and Role Play (Ancient World Fantasy)
Xyhora (fantasy strategy)
YourTurnMyTurn Online Boardgames (Board Games)
Zoccer (pbem soccer manager)

Age of Rifles (pc wargame, XIXth century) [ dead link ]
Brave New Worlds (Strategic pulp futuristic pop-culture) [ dead link ]
Chess (Chess) [ dead link ]
CoC 5.6 Signum Crocinus and the Paintings of Francisco Goya (Horror (Call of Cthulhu)) [ dead link ]
Covert Operations (Wargame, Conspiracy, Economic) [ dead link ]
Darkness of Silverfall (Space Conquest) [ dead link ]
Dino Wars (Prehistoric Conquest) [ dead link ]
Guru Football Manager (Football Management) [ dead link ]
MLBS Baseball Simulation (sports simulation) [ dead link ]
Phoenix Command (Modern Counter-terrorism) [ dead link ]
Phoenyx Fantasy Lexicon (Fantasy lexicon quasi-roleplaying game) [ dead link ]
Rainbow's End (Empire building wargame) [ dead link ]
Star Trek Strategy PBeM (space strategy wargame) [ dead link ]
Tharnak (german storytelling fantasy RPG) [ dead link ]
USS Providence (Star Trek Play By E-mail RPG) [ dead link ]
Weekly Electronic Football Simulation (WEFS) (football (soccer) manager simulation) [ dead link ]

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