100,000 register to play text based UnforgivenWar beta

Apparently, people are still interested in playing text based games. A good example is UnforgivenWar by Nvinium Games. This free text based, massive multiplayer online browser game allows people to join the military, go through boot camp, take part in missions and work together, all with only text. The game is only in the beta phase, but over 100,000 people have joined.

The exact number of player’s who’ve signed up for UnforgivenWar is (as of 11:53am CST December 30, 2008) 100,604. The main page has a nice listing at the bottom that keeps track of the number of “soldiers” participating. The actual active number of players is a little over half that (at the moment, 55,335), and a fraction of those active players, around 1,500, have been active in the last day. It’s still a respectable number and a success, even if you only consider the active players…