MMORPG Release Calendar
Launches, expansions, betas, and Early Access windows — every entry sourced, with delays and date changes tracked in the open. Filter by status, type, or platform; estimated windows are always marked and never dressed up as exact days. Planning launch day with friends or your guild? Every entry has an Add to calendar button that saves release day to your own calendar on any device — iPhone, Android, PC or Mac (Apple Calendar, Google, Outlook, Office 365, Yahoo).
Q4 2026
ArcheAge ChroniclesSteam Early Access
The ArcheAge successor's first public release is Steam Early Access on November 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM PST — announced by XLGAMES on October 27 alongside $29.99 pre-orders. The studio expects Early Access to last roughly 9–12 months; no full-release date. Reframed from a full launch to Early Access in Kakao Games' Q2 2026 earnings (August 11), with publishing reverting to XL Games; originally targeted at 2025, moved to 2026 in Kakao's Q3 2024 report.
Source: MassivelyOP — Kakao Q2 2026 earnings ↗verified Purchase requiredPC
Date history (2 changes)
- 🔁 was Full launch (Q4 2026, announced) → now Steam Early Access (Q4 2026, announced) · changed — Kakao's Q2 2026 earnings reframed the Q4 release as Steam Early Access rather than a full launch, with publishing reverting to XL Games. source ↗
- 📅 was Q4 2026 → now November 3, 2026 · changed — XLGAMES dated Steam Early Access (3:00 PM PST) and opened pre-orders on October 27 — inside the announced window, narrowed not slipped. source ↗
World of Warcraft: ForeverLaunch
Launch of Blizzard's Classic+ — a permanent level-60 alternate timeline of vanilla Azeroth with three new zones, overhauled existing ones, nine new dungeons, 10- and 20-player raids, 1,000+ quests, a new battleground, and the Skyborne race. Included with any active WoW subscription or game time.
Source: Official site (Blizzard) ↗verified Purchase requiredPC · Mac
SoulframeOpen Preludes (pre-alpha opens to all PC players)
Digital Extremes ends the invitation queue for Soulframe's Preludes pre-alpha: from November 6 anyone can sign up at soulframe.com, download the PC launcher and play — "no more waiting for an invitation." Still pre-alpha, not an Early Access or full launch; no start time has been announced, and the game is not playable through Steam.
Source: Official — "Open Preludes Coming November 6" ↗verified Free / open to everyonePCGlobal
EVE VanguardPersistent Alpha (24/7, paid access)
The persistent 24/7 Alpha opens November 10, 2026 via the EVE Launcher only, as paid access — Fenris Creations says pricing and access packs will be detailed closer to November. It brings three new maps, a reworked new-player journey and deeper weapon progression, building on the free time-boxed Operation Avalon playtest (July 7–20). The Steam Early Access launch, when the game enters beta, moved to Q3 2027.
Source: Official — Operation Avalon & persistent Alpha ↗verified Purchase requiredPC
Date history (1 change)
- 🔁 was November 2026 (announced) → now November 10, 2026 (confirmed) · changed — Fenris Creations dated the 24/7 Alpha on September 17 — the month window narrowed to a committed day. Access is now paid (EVE Launcher only); the earlier free-playtest framing no longer applies. source ↗
EVE OnlineFractured Skies (second Theaters of War expansion)
The second of three Theaters of War expansions, continuing the Military Campaigns arc that Cradle of War opened on June 9: four new Military Campaigns building to a showdown in January, and four new Attack Battlecruisers (Naga Navy Issue, Oracle Navy Issue, Talos Navy Issue, Tornado Fleet Issue) earned through Factional Warfare loyalty points. CCP says the first seasonal Conquest follows in February. No launch time has been announced.
Source: EVE Online — Directors' Letter ↗verified PC · Mac
Date history (1 change)
- 🔁 was 2026 (announced) → now November 10, 2026 (confirmed) · changed — CCP named and dated the expansion on October 20 — the year window narrowed to a committed day, it did not slip. source ↗
Camelot Unchained1.0 Launch (Early Access exit)
Camelot Unchained entered Early Access for backers on March 27, 2026 and on Steam on June 2, 2026. The studio's Steam Early Access FAQ says it is "targeting December 2026 to leave Early Access" — a target, not a committed date, from a project with a long record of missed windows.
Source: Official site ↗verified PC
Date history (1 change)
- 🔁 was TBA (announced) → now December 2026 (announced) · changed — The tracker had no window; the studio's Steam Early Access FAQ states a December 2026 target. Recorded on review — narrowed, not slipped. source ↗
EverQuest33rd Expansion: Favors of Fortune
The September 2026 producer's letter named the 2026 expansion Favors of Fortune. Beta and pre-orders opened October 6, and a developer livestream is set for November 17, but no release date or window has been published. EverQuest expansions have shipped each December since 2001, but that is habit, not an announcement — the tracker will record a date when one exists.
Source: Official — July 2026 producer's letter ↗verified PC
ApogeaLaunch
Free-to-play launch with no announced date — Trinitas frames 2026 as a testing roadmap leading toward release, and the Steam page still lists the release date as to be announced.
Source: Steam store page — release date TBA ↗verified Free / open to everyonePC
Q1 2027
Final Fantasy XIVEvercold (8.0 Expansion)
Revealed at the Anaheim Fan Festival in April 2026: the Fourth Reflection, Reborn and Evolved job styles, and a January 2027 target. The official Evercold site still lists January 2027 with no exact day.
Source: RPGFan ↗verified Purchase requiredPC · Mac · PlayStation · Xbox · Switch
Brighter Shores1.0 Launch
Fen Research has not committed to an Early Access exit date. The Steam Early Access Q&A ties 1.0 to finishing a feature list (PvP, dungeons, a party system, combat skill trees) and promises no save reset when Early Access ends; the news feed keeps a steady content cadence with no launch window named.
Source: Official site ↗verified
Scars of HonorSteam Early Access
Beast Burst's WoW-style free-to-play MMORPG. The studio originally aimed for Early Access in late 2026 and now calls 2027 the realistic target, refusing to commit to a date until the game is ready. The spring 2026 Steam playtest (April 30 – May 11) drew 120,000+ players; public tests now give way to the invite-based Firstwatch advisory programme announced August 24.
Source: Steam ↗verified Free / open to everyonePC
Date history (1 change)
- 📅 was Q1 2027 (estimated) → now 2027 · changed — Beast Burst's own written statement (MeinMMO interview, June 30, 2026) is that late 2026 was the original aim and 2027 is the realistic Early Access target; the Q1 2027 figure traced only to a fan-site relay of a stream remark, so the tracker now carries the studio's year-precision window. source ↗
Torebia: Island Odyssey1.0 Launch
Twin Studios' Ragnarok-inspired old-school sandbox MMORPG is in development with no committed launch date. Its third public playtest went live on Steam on August 21, 2026 — open to anyone who requests access, planned to run at least a month, with progress wiped afterwards.
Source: Steam store page ↗verified Free / open to everyonePCGlobal
Fractured OnlineEarly Access (as Fractured: Conquest)
Happy Cauldron's rebooted, PvP-warfare-focused relaunch is running phased alpha playtests — a 24-hour test on September 3 followed the cut-short July 23 session — ahead of a planned buy-to-play Early Access. The studio hopes to be in a solid state for Early Access by the end of 2026 but has committed to no date.
Source: Fractured: Conquest official site ↗verified PC
The Elder Scrolls OnlineUpdate 52
Game Director Nick Giacomini's July 30 letter moved Update 52 into January 2027 under a 'quality over calendar dates' philosophy; the Crimson Veldt trial (mounted combat) and the next class-and-combat refresh move into 2027 with it.
Source: MMORPG.com — Game Director letter: Update 52 January 2027 ↗verified PC · Mac · PlayStation · Xbox
World of WarcraftThe Last Titan (11.0 expansion)
The Worldsoul Saga finale after The War Within and Midnight. BlizzCon 2026's opening ceremony gave it a bare "2027" card — no month, season or pre-order — and Blizzard says the full reveal comes "early next year, after the events of Midnight: Eclipse" because more detail would spoil how Midnight's story ends. Ion Hazzikostas called it "the culmination of over two decades of World of Warcraft", laying groundwork for what follows the saga.
Source: Blizzard — World of Warcraft at BlizzCon 2026: Discover What's Next (reveal after Eclipse) ↗verified Purchase requiredPC · Mac
World of WarcraftPatch 12.2: Eclipse
Midnight's next major content update, revealed at BlizzCon 2026: Xal'atath's push for the Worldsoul, the Mantle Vault zone, the eight-boss Worldcore raid, the Thraegar's Stand dungeon, Season 3 and Midnight's Edge, the saga's first legendary weapon. Blizzard has named no date — Blizzard Watch reports an early-2027 target, and Hazzikostas said The Last Titan's full reveal follows "early next year, once we're on the other side of Eclipse".
Source: Blizzard — World of Warcraft at BlizzCon 2026: Discover What's Next (Eclipse announced, no date) ↗verified PC · Mac
New World: AeternumServer shutdown
Amazon Games is sunsetting New World: Aeternum. The title was delisted January 15, 2026, in-game purchases (Marks of Fortune) end July 20, 2026, and the servers are permanently taken offline on January 31, 2027. The extended Nighthaven season runs until shutdown.
Source: Official — The Future of New World: Aeternum ↗verified PC · PlayStation · XboxGlobal
Stars Reach1.0 Launch (free-to-play transition)
Playable Worlds expects at least six months in Early Access before 1.0, when the founder packs retire and the game moves to free-to-play with optional supporter packs; no date has been announced.
Source: Steam store — Early Access FAQ (at least six months; free-to-play at 1.0) ↗verified Free / open to everyonePC
Q2 2027
Chrono OdysseyGlobal Launch
UE5 action MMO launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series. Pushed out of 2026 after closed-beta feedback showed the game needed more development time, then one more quarter to Q2 2027 in Kakao Games' August 2026 earnings call, which slots ArcheAge S: Straits of Freedom into the same quarter.
Source: Icy Veins ↗verified Purchase requiredPC · PlayStation · Xbox
Date history (2 changes)
- 📅 was Q4 2026 → now Q1 2027 · changed — Pushed in Kakao Games' quarterly report after closed-beta feedback. source ↗
- 📅 was Q1 2027 → now Q2 2027 · changed — Pushed one more quarter in Kakao Games' 2Q 2026 earnings call (August 5, 2026); the co-CEO told investors there will not be further delays. source ↗
World of Warcraft: ForeverFirst content update
Blizzard's launch roadmap schedules the first major content update for spring 2027 — two new raids, two new dungeons, new quests and a new playable area — followed by a summer update. No month or day has been announced; the game's launch raids unlock December 9, 2026.
Source: MeinMMO — first update March 2027, updates every four months ↗verified PC · Mac
Date history (1 change)
- 🔁 was March 2027 (announced) → now Spring 2027 (announced) · changed — Correction, not a slip: Blizzard's roadmap says spring. "March" came from one secondary source's reading and was more precise than anything Blizzard published. source ↗
ArcheAge S: Strait of FreedomGlobal launch on Steam
Kakao Games and XLGAMES target a Q2 2027 global launch on PC, Steam-first — narrowed from the plain '2027' given when the game was announced with the publishing agreement on August 3, 2026. The window arrived with the official BI and key visual on September 7, 2026; a developer-preview video with the first in-game footage is promised for later in September. Business model and access details are unannounced, and no Steam store page has surfaced yet. Development is due to move from XLGAMES to Align Studio, a new Kakao Games-funded studio headed by Kim Kyung-tae, when the business-transfer deal disclosed on September 8, 2026 completes on October 27, 2026.
Source: MMORPG.com — PC launch window and developer preview ↗verified PCGlobal
BitCraft Online1.0 Launch
Full free-to-play launch after Early Access iteration.
Source: Official site ↗verified
ProfaneLaunch
No committed window; the PvP sandbox is still in alpha playtests — a large-scale test ran in early 2026 and a May playtest was cut short over bugs.
Source: Official site ↗verified PC
DrakantosLaunch
No committed date; closed beta weekends ran through May 2026, most recently testing free movement and a full action-combat rework.
Source: Official site ↗verified
SoulframeFull Launch
Digital Extremes has committed to no launch date for its fantasy MMO-lite. It is playable in the "Preludes" pre-alpha (PC, own launcher), which opens to every PC player with no invitation on November 6, 2026 (tracked separately). PS5 and Xbox versions are planned after alpha.
Source: Official site ↗verified Signup requiredPCGlobal
Samsara Saga1.0 Launch
Renewal Games' RO-inspired 2.5D pixel-art MMORPG is in active development with ongoing devlogs, but no beta or launch date has been announced.
Source: Official site ↗verified Free / open to everyonePCGlobal
Q3 2027
EVE VanguardSteam Early Access (beta)
Steam Early Access — the point at which Fenris Creations says the game enters beta — is "now planned for Q3 2027", pushed back from an earlier summer-2026 target when the studio dated the paid 24/7 Alpha for November 10, 2026. Until then the game is playable only through that Alpha on the EVE Launcher.
Source: Official — Steam Early Access launch now planned for Q3 2027 ↗verified Purchase requiredPC
Q4 2027
Guild Wars 3First Beta Test
The first public test of ArenaNet's Unreal Engine 5 prequel, targeted for fall 2027. Newsletter signup on the official site offers a chance to join; no exact date has been set.
Source: ArenaNet — official announcement (beta fall 2027) ↗verified Signup requiredPC · PlayStationGlobal
Q1 2028
Star Citizen1.0 Feature-Complete Release
CIG outlined a 1.0 vision at CitizenCon 2024; no date attached.
Source: RSI official roadmap — release view carries a Star Citizen 1.0 column with no date or quarter ↗verified
Q2 2028
Guild Wars 3Launch
Formally announced at Summer Game Fest on June 5, 2026 — a buy-to-play Unreal Engine 5 prequel set in Orr, over a thousand years before the original Guild Wars, coming to PC and PlayStation 5. NCSoft first acknowledged development at its March 2024 shareholder meeting. No release date; the first public milestone is the fall 2027 beta.
Source: ArenaNet — official announcement ↗verified PC · PlayStationGlobal
Q1 2029
Riot MMORe-reveal
Riot has said the rebooted project will stay quiet 'for several years'.
Source: Riot Games ↗verified
RuneScape 4Launch
Revealed at RuneFest 2026 on October 3, 2026 under the working title RS4 — an entirely new RuneScape MMORPG built in Unreal Engine, starting in Ashenfall. Jagex calls it early in development; no release date, window, or platforms announced.
Source: Jagex — official RS4 page ↗verified Global
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