Kindof landed on evennia as the seeming sweet spot in reaction to your comment.

I've walked an agent through Home Assistant => Wiki-per-room => Zork-Me! ...and it turns out that the actual Inform Zork engine is pretty terrible but it's fun to say "go north ; look table" (and eventually "turn on ha.light_001" ;-).

The "MUD/MOO" aspect is where it opens interesting options of actually curling out to the home assistant instance, and the just kindof wild fun of making a functional "quest" in the context of your own home (eg: solve a mystery? make dinner? battling another user for the TV remote? :-D)