If you like Pokémon, you might want to give Temtem a try. It's very similar in play because you collect creatures and bring them to fight other players. This used to be a PC title, but recently ported to consoles. Source: almost 2 years ago

Hi r/NintendoSwitch! We're a handful of members from the Crema team. After a couple of years of Early Access, our project, Temtem, an MMO monster-taming experience, is ready to launch worldwide tomorrow at last on Nintendo Switch! Source: almost 2 years ago

Hi r/games! We're part of the Crema team. We've been working on Temtem, an MMO monster-taming experience, for some years now. It's leaving Early Access and launching tomorrow on Xbox SXS, Switch, and reaching 1.0 on PS5 and Steam. Source: almost 2 years ago

Obviously it's not the Pokemon IP, but check out TemTem[1]. The world feels much more alive and they've implemented raids, PVP, and other MMO features. [1] https://crema.gg/games/temtem/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

As an aside, have you considered playing Temtem? It describes itself as a massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure. Even in its Early Access state, Temtem delivers a bunch of features listed here. Source: over 2 years ago

> At that point you've just reimplemented a less-standard version of matrix with extra steps though. There are IRCv3 specifications that allow this richer experience, and they are at least as standard as Matrix. Check out https://ergo.chat/ with modern clients like https://sr.ht/~emersion/goguma/ (Android), https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ https://kiwiirc.com/ (web), or https://git.sr.ht/~taiite/senpai (TUI) >... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

First try the web-based ones - https://kiwiirc.com/ - https://mibbit.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

Their IRC link is on their homepage. If you don't have an IRC client you can use https://kiwiirc.com/ in browser. Source: over 2 years ago

It depends. There's a lot of people on/around IRC who really like it (see libera and all the other networks), and yeah there definitely are people spinning up new smaller networks. Especially with things like https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/ and self-hosted https://kiwiirc.com/ , as well as really polished client experiences like irccloud, it's easier to convince people to join in. Right now I'm working with a dev... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Since it's a local install, I would use ergo as the server. For the client I would set up a web based client, either KiwiIRC or The Lounge. Source: about 3 years ago