# MMOlist

> The data-driven MMORPG database: 151 curated game profiles with
> sourced activity signals tracked daily from Steam and official APIs, aggregate scores,
> cost-to-start breakdowns, a sourced release calendar with delay history, a
> Developer Atlas of 69 studios and 63 people, and a matching quiz.
> Activity and rating figures refresh daily (last update: 2026-07-26). MMOlist does not
> estimate total populations; activity is shown with its source, scope, and coverage.
> Please carry that scope through when quoting a figure: a Steam number is a Steam
> number, and a release window is a window, not a date.
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## Games

### World of Warcraft

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/world-of-warcraft
- Status: Live · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2004
- Score: 85/100
- Tags: Raiding, Dungeons, Themepark, High Fantasy, Esports PvP
- The genre-defining themepark MMORPG, still the benchmark for polished PvE endgame with Mythic+ dungeons and world-class raids.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/world-of-warcraft

### World of Warcraft Classic

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/wow-classic
- Status: Live · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2019
- Score: 80/100
- Tags: Old School, Slow Leveling, Social, Hardcore Mode, Seasonal Servers
- Blizzard's faithful re-release of vanilla-era WoW, where slow leveling, danger, and server reputation define the experience.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/wow-classic

### Final Fantasy XIV

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/final-fantasy-xiv
- Status: Live · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2013
- Activity: 14K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 85/100
- Steam rating: 87% positive
- Tags: Story-Driven, Raiding, Crafting, Housing, Glamour, Roleplay
- A story-first themepark MMORPG with deep crafting, beloved raids, and the genre's most welcoming casual culture.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/final-fantasy-xiv · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/final-fantasy-xiv/player-count

### The Elder Scrolls Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/elder-scrolls-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2014
- Activity: 9K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -16% over 14d
- Score: 75/100
- Steam rating: 81% positive
- Tags: Story-Driven, Exploration, Housing, Buy-to-Play, Voice Acted
- Tamriel as a themepark MMO: enormous, solo-friendly, fully voiced, with one-Tamriel scaling that lets you go anywhere from level one.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/elder-scrolls-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/elder-scrolls-online/player-count

### Guild Wars 2

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/guild-wars-2
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2012
- Activity: 4.9K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 82/100
- Steam rating: 88% positive
- Tags: No Gear Treadmill, Mounts, WvW, Exploration, Buy-to-Play, Events
- A buy-to-play themepark built around dynamic events, horizontal progression, and the genre's best movement and mounts.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/guild-wars-2 · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/guild-wars-2/player-count

### Old School RuneScape

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/old-school-runescape
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2013
- Activity: 1K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 85/100
- Steam rating: 83% positive
- Tags: Old School, Skilling, Ironman, Player Polls, Full Loot Wilderness, Mobile
- The 2007-era RuneScape kept alive by player polls — a grind-heavy open-skill sandbox with legendary longevity.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/old-school-runescape · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/old-school-runescape/player-count

### RuneScape

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/runescape
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2001
- Activity: 1.9K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +12% over 14d
- Score: 78/100
- Steam rating: 82% positive
- Tags: Skilling, Quests, Solo Friendly, MTX Heavy
- The modernized mainline RuneScape: superb quests and deep skilling, now shedding its aggressive-monetization reputation.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/runescape · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/runescape/player-count

### Black Desert Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/black-desert-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2015
- Activity: 21K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 71/100
- Steam rating: 74% positive
- Tags: Action Combat, Life Skills, Node Wars, Enhancement RNG, Character Creator
- A Korean sandpark famous for its class action combat, life-skill depth, and infamous for its enhancement grind.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/black-desert-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/black-desert-online/player-count

### Lost Ark

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/lost-ark
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2022
- Activity: 5.7K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -17% over 14d
- Score: 74/100
- Steam rating: 70% positive
- Tags: Isometric, Raiding, Dailies, Honing RNG, ARPG Combat
- An isometric action MMORPG with world-class raid encounters buried under a demanding daily grind and pay-to-progress honing.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/lost-ark · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/lost-ark/player-count

### New World: Aeternum

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/new-world-aeternum
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2021
- Activity: 499 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 69/100
- Steam rating: 67% positive
- Tags: Territory Control, Gathering, Wars, Buy-to-Play, Console
- Amazon's supernatural-colonial action MMO, rebranded Aeternum with console support — strong moment-to-moment loop, but Amazon has confirmed a full shutdown on January 31, 2027.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/new-world-aeternum · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/new-world-aeternum/player-count

### Albion Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/albion-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac, Xbox, Mobile · Released: 2017
- Activity: 7.5K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 84/100
- Steam rating: 78% positive
- Tags: Full Loot, Player Economy, Guild Wars, Isometric, Cross-Platform
- A full-loot sandbox where the entire economy is player-driven and every fight has stakes — EVE's spirit in a fantasy isometric shell.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/albion-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/albion-online/player-count

### EVE Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/eve-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2003
- Activity: 3.9K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 76/100
- Steam rating: 73% positive
- Tags: Sci-Fi, Single Shard, Player Economy, Full Loot, Corporation Politics
- The single-shard spaceship sandbox where corporations wage wars, run scams, and crash economies — brutal, slow, and unmatched in scope.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/eve-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/eve-online/player-count

### Throne and Liberty

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/throne-and-liberty
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2024
- Activity: 6.3K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 66/100
- Steam rating: 67% positive
- Tags: Siege PvP, GvG, Free-to-Play, Weapon Swapping, Boss Contests
- NCSoft's modern mass-PvP MMO: gorgeous large-scale sieges and boss contests, with monetization that keeps one hand in your wallet.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/throne-and-liberty · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/throne-and-liberty/player-count

### Dune: Awakening

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/dune-awakening
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2025
- Activity: 4.9K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 77/100
- Steam rating: 71% positive
- Tags: Survival, Sci-Fi, Base Building, Deep Desert PvP, Spice
- Funcom's survival MMO on Arrakis — sandworms, spice, base building, and a full-loot Deep Desert endgame.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/dune-awakening · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/dune-awakening/player-count

### Star Wars: The Old Republic

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/star-wars-the-old-republic
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2011
- Activity: 3.1K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 85/100
- Steam rating: 90% positive
- Tags: Star Wars, Story-Driven, Class Stories, Companions, Free-to-Play
- BioWare's (now Broadsword's) story MMO — effectively KOTOR 3 through 10, best enjoyed as a solo RPG with occasional friends.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/star-wars-the-old-republic · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/star-wars-the-old-republic/player-count

### The Lord of the Rings Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/lord-of-the-rings-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2007
- Activity: 1.1K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +12% over 14d
- Score: 82/100
- Steam rating: 81% positive
- Tags: Tolkien, Story-Driven, Roleplay, Music System, Old School
- The definitive Middle-earth MMO: a slow, literary journey from the Shire to Mordor with the genre's coziest community.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/lord-of-the-rings-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/lord-of-the-rings-online/player-count

### EverQuest

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/everquest
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 1999
- Activity: 234 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +17% over 14d
- Score: 79/100
- Steam rating: 79% positive
- Tags: Old School, Forced Grouping, TLP Servers, Camping, 1999
- The 1999 titan that built the genre — still expanding yearly, with TLP servers offering the classic grind on repeat.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/everquest · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/everquest/player-count

### EverQuest II

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/everquest-ii
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2004
- Activity: 143 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 77/100
- Steam rating: 79% positive
- Tags: Housing, Crafting, Old School, Collections
- EverQuest's parallel-universe sequel — a quieter themepark with legendary player housing and crafting depth.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/everquest-ii · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/everquest-ii/player-count

### Ultima Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ultima-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 1997
- Score: 94/100
- Tags: Sandbox, Open World Housing, 1997, Full Loot (Felucca), Player Economy
- The 1997 original that invented the MMO sandbox — player housing, full-loot Felucca, and an economy that still teaches design lessons.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ultima-online

### Neverwinter

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/neverwinter
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2013
- Activity: 695 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 72/100
- Steam rating: 77% positive
- Tags: D&D, Action Combat, Dungeons, Free-to-Play, Console
- A free-to-play action MMO set in D&D's Forgotten Realms — great dungeon romps, aggressive monetization.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/neverwinter · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/neverwinter/player-count

### Star Trek Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/star-trek-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2010
- Activity: 1.1K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 72/100
- Steam rating: 79% positive
- Tags: Star Trek, Space Combat, Episodic Story, Ship Building
- The long-running Star Trek MMO where episodic storytelling and starship combat carry a creaky but beloved frame.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/star-trek-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/star-trek-online/player-count

### DC Universe Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/dc-universe-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch · Released: 2011
- Activity: 322 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -11% over 14d
- Score: 74/100
- Steam rating: 81% positive
- Tags: Superhero, Action Combat, Console, Character Creator
- The superhero action MMO where you fight beside (or against) the Justice League — brawler combat, big license, old bones.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/dc-universe-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/dc-universe-online/player-count

### PSO2: New Genesis

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/phantasy-star-online-2-new-genesis
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch · Released: 2021
- Activity: 550 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 67/100
- Steam rating: 69% positive
- Tags: Anime, Action Combat, Fashion, Free-to-Play, Japan
- SEGA's anime action MMO — fast, flashy combat and fashion-first endgame in an open-zone sci-fi world.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/phantasy-star-online-2-new-genesis · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/phantasy-star-online-2-new-genesis/player-count

### Tower of Fantasy

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/tower-of-fantasy
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Mobile · Released: 2022
- Activity: 227 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +11% over 14d
- Score: 69/100
- Steam rating: 66% positive
- Tags: Anime, Gacha, Open World, Cross-Platform, Free-to-Play
- An anime open-world gacha MMO hybrid — Genshin-style exploration bolted to real multiplayer systems.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/tower-of-fantasy · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/tower-of-fantasy/player-count

### Blade & Soul NEO

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/blade-and-soul
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2025
- Score: 65/100
- Tags: Martial Arts, Arena PvP, Anime, Wuxia, Combos
- NCSoft's martial-arts MMO, fighting-game combat depth wrapped in a wuxia world and a heavy grind; the 2025 NEO remaster runs alongside the original service.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/blade-and-soul

### Lineage 2

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/lineage-2
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2003
- Score: 76/100
- Tags: Siege PvP, Clan Wars, Old School, Korean Grinder, Castle Sieges
- The Korean siege-war grandfather whose clan politics inspired Throne and Liberty — brutal grind, heavier wallet.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/lineage-2

### MapleStory

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/maplestory
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2003
- Activity: 11K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 67/100
- Steam rating: 61% positive
- Tags: 2D, Side-Scroller, Bossing, Gacha Cubes, Nostalgia
- Nexon's iconic 2D side-scrolling MMO — cute on the surface, hardcore bossing and brutal enhancement math underneath.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/maplestory · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/maplestory/player-count

### Mabinogi

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/mabinogi
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2004
- Activity: 314 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 72/100
- Steam rating: 74% positive
- Tags: Life Skills, Music, Cozy, Anime, Fantasy Life
- The 'fantasy life' MMO — play music, farm, tailor, and occasionally fight, in a 20-year-old anime world being remastered in Unreal.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/mabinogi · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/mabinogi/player-count

### Tibia

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/tibia
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 1997
- Score: 79/100
- Tags: 1997, Full Loot, Hardcore, Pixel, Death Penalty
- One of the oldest living MMOs — a punishing top-down world where dying costs you levels and loot, beloved across Latin America and Europe.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/tibia

### Dofus

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/dofus
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2004
- Activity: 0 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -100% over 14d
- Score: 79/100
- Steam rating: 74% positive
- Tags: Turn-Based, Tactical, French, 2D, Unity Remake
- Ankama's tactical turn-based MMO — chess-like fights, quirky art, and a huge Francophone following.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/dofus · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/dofus/player-count

### Wakfu

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/wakfu
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2012
- Activity: 226 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 74/100
- Steam rating: 76% positive
- Tags: Turn-Based, Ecosystem, Politics, 2D, Tactical
- Dofus's sequel with player-governed nations and ecosystems — a tactical turn-based world that players actually steward.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/wakfu · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/wakfu/player-count

### Flyff Universe

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/flyff-universe
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile, Browser · Released: 2022
- Score: 68/100
- Tags: Browser, Nostalgia, Flying, Grind, Party Leveling
- The classic 2005 'Fly For Fun' rebuilt to run in any browser — nostalgia-grade grinding with modern accessibility.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/flyff-universe

### Secret World Legends

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/secret-world-legends
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2017
- Activity: 30 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -17% over 14d
- Score: 70/100
- Steam rating: 67% positive
- Tags: Horror, Modern Day, Investigation Missions, Story-Driven, Lovecraftian
- Funcom's occult-conspiracy MMO with investigation missions that make you actually think — frozen in time but still worth the trip.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/secret-world-legends · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/secret-world-legends/player-count

### RIFT

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/rift
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2011
- Activity: 147 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 75/100
- Steam rating: 74% positive
- Tags: Soul System, Dynamic Rifts, Housing, Maintenance Mode
- The 2011 WoW challenger with the brilliant soul class system — now a quiet museum of a great idea.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/rift · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/rift/player-count

### Dungeons & Dragons Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2006
- Activity: 224 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 75/100
- Steam rating: 71% positive
- Tags: D&D, Dungeon Crawler, DM Narration, Character Builds, Old School
- The truest D&D experience in an MMO — instanced dungeon crawls, deep builds, actual dungeon-master narration.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/dungeons-and-dragons-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-online/player-count

### City of Heroes: Homecoming

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/city-of-heroes-homecoming
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2019
- Score: 77/100
- Tags: Superhero, Community Run, Character Creator, Free, Resurrected
- The beloved superhero MMO, resurrected and officially licensed to its community — free, friendly, and endlessly customizable.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/city-of-heroes-homecoming

### Project: Gorgon

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/project-gorgon
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Activity: 292 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 81/100
- Steam rating: 82% positive
- Tags: Skill-Based, Discovery, Indie, Weird Systems, Old School Soul
- An indie sandbox with the soul of 2001 — dozens of odd interlocking skills, real discovery, and zero corporate polish.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/project-gorgon · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/project-gorgon/player-count

### Wurm Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/wurm-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2006
- Activity: 87 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 66/100
- Steam rating: 62% positive
- Tags: Terraforming, Homesteading, Sandbox, Slow, Player-Built World
- The terraforming sandbox where players dig the roads, raise the towns, and measure progress in months — Minecraft's godfather.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/wurm-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/wurm-online/player-count

### Mortal Online 2

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/mortal-online-2
- Status: Live · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC · Released: 2022
- Activity: 1K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -21% over 14d
- Score: 70/100
- Steam rating: 60% positive
- Tags: First Person, Full Loot, Hardcore, Single Server, Skill-Based Combat
- A first-person full-loot sandbox on one world server — the most hardcore mainstream-adjacent MMO running.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/mortal-online-2 · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/mortal-online-2/player-count

### Palia

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/palia
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch · Released: 2023
- Activity: 4.8K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 74/100
- Steam rating: 86% positive
- Tags: Cozy, Life Sim, Housing, No Combat Pressure, Fishing
- The 'cozy MMO' — farming, fishing, friendship, and housing in a combat-light community sim world.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/palia · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/palia/player-count

### Ravendawn

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ravendawn
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2024
- Score: 87/100
- Tags: Top-Down, Tibia-like, Farming, Player Economy, Indie
- A Tibia-inspired top-down sandbox with land ownership, farming, and a player-driven economy from ex-Tibia community devs.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ravendawn

### Warframe

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/warframe
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Mobile · Released: 2013
- Activity: 63K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 84/100
- Steam rating: 88% positive
- Tags: Looter Shooter, MMO-Lite, Space Ninjas, Fair F2P, Co-op
- The space-ninja looter — an MMO-lite included here because every 'what MMO next?' thread ends with someone saying Warframe.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/warframe · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/warframe/player-count

### Destiny 2

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/destiny-2
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2017
- Activity: 32K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -13% over 14d
- Score: 78/100
- Steam rating: 78% positive
- Tags: Looter Shooter, MMO-Lite, Raids, Gunplay, Seasonal
- Bungie's looter-shooter MMO-lite — peerless gunfeel and raids, carrying heavy live-service baggage.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/destiny-2 · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/destiny-2/player-count

### Dungeon Fighter Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/dungeon-fighter-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2005
- Activity: 110 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +42% over 14d
- Score: 68/100
- Steam rating: 60% positive
- Tags: Beat-em-up, 2D, Arcade, Alts, Korean
- The 2D arcade brawler MMO that quietly became one of the highest-grossing games ever — fists first, world second.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/dungeon-fighter-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/dungeon-fighter-online/player-count

### Vindictus

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/vindictus
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2010
- Activity: 102 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 67/100
- Steam rating: 67% positive
- Tags: Boss Fights, Physics Combat, Instanced, Mabinogi Universe
- The physics-brawler dungeon MMO in Mabinogi's universe — grab a pillar, smash a boss, repeat for 15 years.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/vindictus · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/vindictus/player-count

### Broken Ranks

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/broken-ranks
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2022
- Score: 75/100
- Tags: Turn-Based, Dark Fantasy, Polish, Isometric, Hardcore
- The successor to Poland's The Pride of Taern — dark, grindy, turn-based tactics with a devoted following.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/broken-ranks

### WildStar

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/wildstar
- Status: Sunset · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2014
- Activity: 1 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +67% over 14d
- Score: 76/100
- Steam rating: 75% positive
- Tags: Sunset, Telegraph Combat, Hardcore Raiding, Sci-Fi, Housing
- The hardcore sci-fi themepark that burned bright and died fast — kept here as a cautionary tale and revival hope.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/wildstar · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/wildstar/player-count

### Tarisland

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/tarisland
- Status: Sunset · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2024
- Activity: 0 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 56/100
- Steam rating: 36% positive
- Tags: Sunset, Cross-Platform, WoW-like, Mobile
- Tencent's WoW-alike for PC and mobile that lasted about 16 months — a lesson in how crowded the themepark lane is.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/tarisland · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/tarisland/player-count

### Ashes of Creation

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ashes-of-creation
- Status: Sunset · Business model: Buy-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2024
- Activity: 3 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -31% over 14d
- Score: 34/100
- Steam rating: 34% positive
- Tags: Node System, Sieges, Caravans, Crowdfunded, Alpha 2
- The most-watched crowdfunded MMO — player-driven nodes, caravans, and sieges. Intrepid Studios closed permanently in February 2026 and the Alpha 2 servers went dark; a decade of crowdfunding ended without a launch.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ashes-of-creation · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/ashes-of-creation/player-count

### Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/pantheon-rise-of-the-fallen
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2024
- Activity: 29 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +10% over 14d
- Score: 73/100
- Steam rating: 73% positive
- Tags: Old School, Forced Grouping, Camping, Climbing, Early Access
- The long-gestating EverQuest spiritual successor, finally playable in Early Access — grouping is mandatory, and that's the point.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/pantheon-rise-of-the-fallen · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/pantheon-rise-of-the-fallen/player-count

### BitCraft Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/bitcraft-online
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2025
- Activity: 570 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -11% over 14d
- Score: 74/100
- Steam rating: 74% positive
- Tags: One World, Civilization Building, Skilling, Peaceful, Early Access
- A one-world sandbox where every player shares a single earth and builds civilization from wilderness — quietly ambitious.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/bitcraft-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/bitcraft-online/player-count

### Pax Dei

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/pax-dei
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2024
- Activity: 880 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +15% over 14d
- Score: 64/100
- Steam rating: 57% positive
- Tags: Medieval, Building, Social Sandbox, Subscription, Clans
- A gorgeous UE5 medieval social sandbox where clans clear forests and raise villages — past 1.0 at last, with plots kept alive by a subscription.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/pax-dei · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/pax-dei/player-count

### Corepunk

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/corepunk
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2024
- Score: 78/100
- Tags: MOBA-like, Fog of War, Isometric, Hardcore, Early Access
- An isometric MMO with MOBA DNA — fog of war, skillshots, and open-world danger in a weird western-cyber-fantasy mashup.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/corepunk

### Star Citizen

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/star-citizen
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2012
- Score: 92/100
- Tags: Space Sim, Crowdfunded, First Person, Ships, Perpetual Alpha
- The most funded game ever and still in alpha — a breathtaking space sim MMO perpetually five years away.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/star-citizen

### The Quinfall

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/the-quinfall
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2025
- Activity: 1.1K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -10% over 14d
- Score: 60/100
- Steam rating: 51% positive
- Tags: Huge Map, Feature Sprawl, Early Access, Skeptic Magnet
- A Turkish studio's massively ambitious sandbox that promises everything — its 2026 full launch came with a total wipe and a skeptical player base.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/the-quinfall · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/the-quinfall/player-count

### Chrono Odyssey

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/chrono-odyssey
- Status: In Development · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2027
- Tags: UE5, Time Manipulation, Souls-like Combat, Korean, Upcoming
- Kakao's UE5 action MMO with time-manipulation combat — beautiful, promising, and rebuilding after tough beta feedback.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/chrono-odyssey

### Aion 2

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/aion-2
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2026
- Score: 70/100
- Tags: Wings, Faction War, UE5, Cross-Platform, Upcoming
- NCSoft's return to Atreia — winged faction warfare rebuilt in UE5, already live in Korea and heading west.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/aion-2

### ArcheAge Chronicles

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/archeage-chronicles
- Status: In Development · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2026
- Tags: Naval, Trade Runs, Housing, Sandpark, Upcoming
- The ArcheAge successor (formerly ArcheAge 2) — trade ships, open housing, and a franchise trying to outrun its monetization ghosts.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/archeage-chronicles

### Star Resonance

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/blue-protocol-star-resonance
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2025
- Activity: 389 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -12% over 14d
- Score: 60/100
- Steam rating: 50% positive
- Tags: Anime, Blue Protocol Successor, Cross-Platform, Free-to-Play
- Blue Protocol's second life under Tencent — the anime MMO that refused to die, relaunched globally for PC and mobile.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/blue-protocol-star-resonance · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/blue-protocol-star-resonance/player-count

### Stars Reach

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/stars-reach
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Tags: Raph Koster, Simulated Worlds, SWG Successor, Crowdfunded, Upcoming
- Raph Koster's return to sandbox MMOs — a simulated galaxy of editable worlds carrying Star Wars Galaxies' torch.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/stars-reach

### Monsters & Memories

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/monsters-and-memories
- Status: In Development · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Tags: Old School, EQ-like, Low Poly, Indie, Upcoming
- A part-time passion project building the most faithful EverQuest successor — low-poly, high-danger, community-first.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/monsters-and-memories

### Camelot Unchained

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/camelot-unchained
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Tags: RvR, Tri-Realm, DAoC Successor, Crowdfunded, Beta
- The Dark Age of Camelot successor promising realm-vs-realm at massive scale — a 2013 Kickstarter still fighting to ship.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/camelot-unchained

### Riot MMO

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/riot-mmo
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2030
- Tags: Runeterra, League of Legends, Rebooted, TBA, Vaporware Watch
- Riot's League of Legends MMO — rebooted, resized, and locked in a vault. The genre's biggest question mark.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/riot-mmo

### Ghost (working title)

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ghost-fantastic-pixel-castle
- Status: Sunset · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2023
- Tags: Ghostcrawler, Open Development, NetEase, TBA
- Ex-WoW lead Ghostcrawler's transparent-by-design MMO project at Fantastic Pixel Castle — followed as much for the blog as the game. The studio closed in November 2025 after NetEase pulled funding; Ghost died in development.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ghost-fantastic-pixel-castle

### Drakantos

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/drakantos
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2027
- Tags: Pixel Art, Hero Roster, Co-op, Brazilian, Upcoming
- A Brazilian studio's viral pixel-art MMORPG — 20+ swappable heroes, action combat, and co-op dungeons in the world of Eldras, still cooking through closed betas.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/drakantos

### Final Fantasy XI

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/final-fantasy-xi
- Status: Live · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC · Released: 2002
- Activity: 20 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 85/100
- Steam rating: 88% positive
- Tags: Old School, Story-Driven, Trusts, Job System, 2002
- Square's first online Final Fantasy — a slower, harder Vana'diel that still runs, now largely soloable thanks to Trust NPCs.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/final-fantasy-xi · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/final-fantasy-xi/player-count

### Ragnarok Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ragnarok-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2002
- Activity: 57 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 74/100
- Steam rating: 71% positive
- Tags: 2D Sprites, War of Emperium, Cards, Nostalgia, Korean
- The 2002 Korean classic whose sprite art, card system, and guild sieges spawned a thousand private servers — and it's still going.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ragnarok-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/ragnarok-online/player-count

### MU Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/mu-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2001
- Score: 69/100
- Tags: Isometric, Resets, Wings, Korean Grinder, 2001
- The 2001 isometric Korean grinder of wings, resets, and +15 glow — a monetization cautionary tale that refuses to die.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/mu-online

### Metin2

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/metin2
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2004
- Activity: 0 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +43% over 14d
- Score: 68/100
- Steam rating: 70% positive
- Tags: Oriental Fantasy, Upgrade RNG, Guild Wars, European Scene, 2004
- The oriental-fantasy grinder that conquered 2000s European internet cafés — stone-smashing, gambling upgrades, and guild brawls.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/metin2 · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/metin2/player-count

### Silkroad Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/silkroad-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2005
- Score: 60/100
- Tags: Silk Road, Trade Runs, Triangle Conflict, Job System, 2005
- The caravan MMO where traders, thieves, and hunters clashed along the Silk Road — a brilliant PvP triangle buried under bots and grind.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/silkroad-online

### Knight Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/knight-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2004
- Activity: 1.4K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 51/100
- Steam rating: 51% positive
- Tags: Faction War, Turkish Scene, PK, 2004
- The 2004 faction-war MMO that became a Turkish national pastime — two nations, endless PK, and +8 upgrade heartbreak.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/knight-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/knight-online/player-count

### Cabal Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/cabal-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2005
- Activity: 0 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 69/100
- Steam rating: 68% positive
- Tags: Combos, Sci-Fantasy, Dungeons, 2005
- The stylish 2005 combo MMO whose timing-based skill chains felt like an action game before action MMOs existed.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/cabal-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/cabal-online/player-count

### Perfect World International

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/perfect-world-international
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2008
- Score: 69/100
- Tags: Flight, Wuxia, Territory Wars, Chinese, 2008
- The Chinese flight MMO that let everyone take to the skies in 2008 — beautiful bones, long since hollowed by its cash shop.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/perfect-world-international

### Runes of Magic

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/runes-of-magic
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2009
- Activity: 116 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 69/100
- Steam rating: 69% positive
- Tags: Dual Class, WoW-like, Housing, 2009
- 2009's 'free WoW' with a genuinely clever dual-class system — still online, still selling diamonds.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/runes-of-magic · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/runes-of-magic/player-count

### Aion Classic

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/aion-classic
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2009
- Score: 75/100
- Tags: Wings, Faction War, Abyss, Classic Servers, 2009
- Aion's 2009 golden era, re-served — winged faction war in the Abyss as Aion 2's global launch approaches (September 2026).
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/aion-classic

### Ryzom

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ryzom
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux · Released: 2004
- Activity: 1 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +10% over 14d
- Score: 71/100
- Steam rating: 70% positive
- Tags: Living Ecology, Classless, Open Source, Sci-Fantasy, 2004
- The alien-world sandbox where herds migrate with the seasons and your skills are built from stanzas — a cult classic kept alive by love.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ryzom · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/ryzom/player-count

### Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/istaria
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2003
- Score: 65/100
- Tags: Playable Dragons, Multiclassing, Open World Housing, 2003
- The 2003 oddity that lets you live an entire dragon's life — hoard, wings, and all — still flying on a skeleton crew.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/istaria

### Villagers & Heroes

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/villagers-and-heroes
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2011
- Activity: 32 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -9% over 14d
- Score: 72/100
- Steam rating: 61% positive
- Tags: Cozy, Villages, Cross-Platform, Indie, Gardening
- A small studio's cozy village MMO — gardening, ranching, and gentle questing across PC and mobile.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/villagers-and-heroes · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/villagers-and-heroes/player-count

### Entropia Universe

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/entropia-universe
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2003
- Activity: 163 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 64/100
- Steam rating: 63% positive
- Tags: Real Cash Economy, PED, Virtual Property, 2003
- The real-cash-economy MMO where ammo costs actual dollars and virtual asteroids sold for six figures — fascinating, dangerous, unique.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/entropia-universe · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/entropia-universe/player-count

### Wizard101

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/wizard101
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch · Released: 2008
- Activity: 346 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -18% over 14d
- Score: 78/100
- Steam rating: 83% positive
- Tags: Card Combat, Family Friendly, Schools of Magic, Housing
- The wizard-school card-combat MMO an entire generation grew up on — deeper than its saturday-cartoon look suggests.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/wizard101 · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/wizard101/player-count

### Trove

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/trove
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch · Released: 2015
- Activity: 696 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 71/100
- Steam rating: 80% positive
- Tags: Voxel, Classes, Building, Console, Free-to-Play
- The voxel action-MMO where Minecraft kids graduated to loot grinds — block building, dungeon farming, and a dozen classes.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/trove · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/trove/player-count

### Toontown Rewritten

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/toontown-rewritten
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2013
- Score: 92/100
- Tags: Community Revival, Free, Cartoon, Gag Combat, Wholesome
- Disney's shuttered Toontown Online, rebuilt and run free by its community since 2013 — gag battles against the Cogs, forever.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/toontown-rewritten

### ODIN: Valhalla Rising

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/odin-valhalla-rising
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2025
- Score: 63/100
- Tags: Norse, Cross-Platform, Korean, Seamless World, 2025 Global
- Kakao's Norse cross-platform epic, brought west in 2025 — gorgeous seamless world, uncompromising Korean monetization.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/odin-valhalla-rising

### Once Human

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/once-human
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2024
- Activity: 16K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 77/100
- Steam rating: 78% positive
- Tags: Survival, Eldritch, Base Building, Seasonal Wipes, MMO-Lite
- NetEase's eldritch survival MMO — build a base at the end of the world, collect pet anomalies, restart each season.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/once-human · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/once-human/player-count

### Brighter Shores

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/brighter-shores
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2024
- Activity: 100 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 69/100
- Steam rating: 68% positive
- Tags: Andrew Gower, Professions, Episodic, RuneScape DNA, Early Access
- Andrew Gower's return to MMOs — a cozy, episodic professions grinder with RuneScape's soul and a divisive structure.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/brighter-shores · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/brighter-shores/player-count

### Embers Adrift

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/embers-adrift
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2022
- Activity: 5 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 69/100
- Steam rating: 72% positive
- Tags: Old School, Group PvE, Low Fantasy, Indie, No Hand-Holding
- A deliberately slow, grounded group-PvE MMO for players who think even Pantheon is too flashy.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/embers-adrift · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/embers-adrift/player-count

### Fractured Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/fractured-online
- Status: In Development · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2022
- Activity: 0 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -100% over 14d
- Score: 56/100
- Steam rating: 56% positive
- Tags: Isometric, Knowledge System, City Building, Full Loot Zones, Early Access
- An isometric sandbox where progression comes from discovery, not XP bars — Albion's ideas with a knowledge twist, fighting for critical mass.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/fractured-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/fractured-online/player-count

### Book of Travels

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/book-of-travels
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2021
- Activity: 9 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -21% over 14d
- Score: 74/100
- Steam rating: 74% positive
- Tags: TMORPG, Serene, Hand-Painted, No Quest Markers, Early Access
- A 'tiny multiplayer' online RPG of quiet wandering through hand-painted Braided Shore — an art piece more than a game, unapologetically.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/book-of-travels · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/book-of-travels/player-count

### Temtem

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/temtem
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch · Released: 2022
- Activity: 118 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 77/100
- Steam rating: 81% positive
- Tags: Creature Collection, Turn-Based, Co-op Story, 1.0 Complete
- The creature-collecting MMO that finished its story, shipped 1.0, then quietly stopped — still playable, no longer growing.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/temtem · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/temtem/player-count

### Guild Wars Reforged

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/guild-wars
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2005
- Activity: 575 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 86/100
- Steam rating: 88% positive
- Tags: CORPG, Build Crafting, 8-Skill Bar, No Sub Ever, Reforged
- ArenaNet's instanced classic of 1,300 skills and 8-slot builds, relaunched in 2025 as Guild Wars Reforged — modernized, Steam Deck verified and back under active care.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/guild-wars · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/guild-wars/player-count

### Age of Conan: Unchained

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/age-of-conan
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2008
- Activity: 40 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 72/100
- Steam rating: 69% positive
- Tags: Conan, Mature, Directional Combat, Tortage, 2008
- Funcom's savage, gorgeous Conan MMO — a legendary first act, a long quiet ever after.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/age-of-conan · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/age-of-conan/player-count

### Anarchy Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/anarchy-online
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2001
- Activity: 2 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -43% over 14d
- Score: 84/100
- Steam rating: 82% positive
- Tags: Sci-Fi Pioneer, Twinking, Implants, Rubi-Ka, 2001
- The 2001 sci-fi pioneer of Rubi-Ka — instanced missions, implant min-maxing, and 25 years of duct tape.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/anarchy-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/anarchy-online/player-count

### Champions Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/champions-online
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2009
- Activity: 50 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -14% over 14d
- Score: 66/100
- Steam rating: 71% positive
- Tags: Superhero, Freeform Powers, Character Creator, 2009
- Cryptic's freeform superhero MMO — build any power combo you can dream, in a game time forgot.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/champions-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/champions-online/player-count

### Dark Age of Camelot

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/dark-age-of-camelot
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2001
- Score: 84/100
- Tags: RvR, Tri-Realm, Relic Raids, 2001, Eden Freeshard
- The game that invented realm-vs-realm — Albion, Hibernia, and Midgard still clash, mostly on the Eden freeshard these days.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/dark-age-of-camelot

### Zenith: The Last City

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/zenith-the-last-city
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Meta Quest · Released: 2022
- Activity: 1 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -20% over 14d
- Score: 65/100
- Steam rating: 66% positive
- Tags: VR, Anime, Climbing, SAO-like, Cautionary Tale
- The VR MMORPG that briefly made the SAO dream real — servers still up, development gone, lessons learned.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/zenith-the-last-city · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/zenith-the-last-city/player-count

### Star Wars Galaxies

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/star-wars-galaxies
- Status: Sunset · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC · Released: 2003
- Score: 80/100
- Tags: Sunset, Sandbox Legend, Player Cities, Emulators, NGE Cautionary Tale
- Raph Koster's Star Wars sandbox — player cities, cantina entertainers, and the NGE tragedy. Dead officially, immortal via emulators.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/star-wars-galaxies

### Asheron's Call

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/asherons-call
- Status: Sunset · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC · Released: 1999
- Score: 84/100
- Tags: Sunset, 1999, Allegiance System, Monthly Events, Emulators
- Turbine's 1999 masterpiece of seamless wilderness and patron allegiances — monthly updates for nearly 15 years, then maintenance-mode silence. Emulators carry the flame.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/asherons-call

### TERA

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/tera
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox · Released: 2011
- Score: 72/100
- Tags: Sunset, True Action Combat, BAMs, Private Servers
- The MMO that invented dodge-or-die action combat and giant BAM hunts — PC servers closed in 2022, but the official console version lives on (and private servers carry the PC game).
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/tera

### ArcheAge

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/archeage
- Status: Sunset · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2013
- Activity: 2 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +25% over 14d
- Score: 67/100
- Steam rating: 52% positive
- Tags: Sunset, Naval, Trade Runs, Housing, Monetization Tragedy
- The brilliant naval-trade sandbox that monetization strangled — western servers gone, its legacy riding on ArcheAge Chronicles.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/archeage · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/archeage/player-count

### Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/warhammer-online
- Status: Sunset · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC · Released: 2008
- Score: 80/100
- Tags: Sunset, RvR, Public Quests, Warhammer, Return of Reckoning
- Mythic's Warhammer RvR epic — dead officially since 2013, but Return of Reckoning keeps thousands WAAAGH!-ing nightly.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/warhammer-online

### Legend of YMIR

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/legends-of-ymir
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2025
- Score: 83/100
- Tags: Norse, UE5, Korean, Blockchain Adjacent, Cross-Platform
- Wemade's UE5 Norse MMORPG — big-budget Valhalla spectacle, now live globally on PC and mobile with the usual Korean monetization caveats.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/legends-of-ymir

### Realm of the Mad God

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/realm-of-the-mad-god
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2010
- Activity: 856 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 71/100
- Steam rating: 83% positive
- Tags: Bullet Hell, Permadeath, 8-Bit, Co-op
- Permadeath bullet-hell MMO in 8-bit — punishing, addictive, still updated.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/realm-of-the-mad-god · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/realm-of-the-mad-god/player-count

### Toram Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/toram-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2015
- Activity: 1K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 84/100
- Steam rating: 77% positive
- Tags: Classless, Anime, Mobile-First, Build Freedom
- Classless mobile/PC MMO with deep cross-platform character building, originating in Japan.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/toram-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/toram-online/player-count

### Elsword

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/elsword
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2007
- Activity: 111 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -13% over 14d
- Score: 73/100
- Steam rating: 73% positive
- Tags: Side-Scroller, Combos, Anime, Class Paths
- Side-scrolling anime brawler with endless character reworks; KR/global still active.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/elsword · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/elsword/player-count

### NosTale

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/nostale
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2006
- Activity: 285 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 70/100
- Steam rating: 70% positive
- Tags: Specialist Cards, Pets, Gameforge
- Specialist-card anime MMO with a shockingly durable EU following.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/nostale · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/nostale/player-count

### Drakensang Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/drakensang-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Browser · Released: 2011
- Activity: 149 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 65/100
- Steam rating: 65% positive
- Tags: ARPG, German, Browser Roots
- German browser Diablo-like turned client game; grindy, persistent, profitable.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/drakensang-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/drakensang-online/player-count

### Star Stable Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/star-stable
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac, Mobile · Released: 2011
- Score: 91/100
- Tags: Horses, Weekly Updates, Young Audience
- The horse MMO — quietly one of the most successful subscription games in Europe.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/star-stable

### Myth of Empires

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/myth-of-empires
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2021
- Activity: 697 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 71/100
- Steam rating: 68% positive
- Tags: Survival, Siege Warfare, Ancient China, Empire Building
- Sandbox war-empire survival that survived its own ARK code lawsuit and shipped 1.0.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/myth-of-empires · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/myth-of-empires/player-count

### A Tale in the Desert

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/a-tale-in-the-desert
- Status: Live · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC · Released: 2003
- Score: 88/100
- Tags: No Combat, Egypt, Society Building, Tellings
- Combat-free Egyptian society-building told in resetting 'Tellings' — genuinely unique.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/a-tale-in-the-desert

### Haven & Hearth

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/haven-and-hearth
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2009
- Activity: 38 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -21% over 14d
- Score: 73/100
- Steam rating: 73% positive
- Tags: Permadeath, Homesteading, Two-Man Dev Team
- Permadeath homesteading sandbox from two Swedes; brutal and formative.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/haven-and-hearth · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/haven-and-hearth/player-count

### AdventureQuest Worlds

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/adventure-quest-worlds
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: Browser · Released: 2008
- Score: 67/100
- Tags: Browser, Weekly Releases, Artix
- Flash-era browser MMO that outlived Flash itself; weekly releases since 2008.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/adventure-quest-worlds

### Tree of Savior

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/tree-of-savior
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2016
- Activity: 174 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 57/100
- Steam rating: 64% positive
- Tags: RO Successor, Class Trees, Hand-Drawn
- 'RO2 in spirit' from RO's original designer; gorgeous art, tangled systems.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/tree-of-savior · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/tree-of-savior/player-count

### MIR4

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/mir4
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2021
- Activity: 11K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 67/100
- Steam rating: 65% positive
- Tags: Blockchain, DRACO, Korean, Auto-Play
- The blockchain MMO — DRACO tokens, gold farming as a job, huge in SEA/SA.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/mir4 · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/mir4/player-count

### Lineage W

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/lineage-w
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2021
- Tags: Lineage, Global, Castle Sieges, Whale Economy
- The 'worldwide' Lineage; auto-play and whale economics at global scale.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/lineage-w

### Arcane Legends

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/arcane-legends
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: Mobile, Browser · Released: 2012
- Tags: Mobile Pioneer, Pets, Co-op Dungeons
- The mobile MMO that actually lasted — still patched at Spacetime, 13 years on.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/arcane-legends

### Farever

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/farever
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Activity: 1.7K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +27% over 14d
- Score: 75/100
- Steam rating: 75% positive
- Tags: MMO-lite, Co-op, Action Combat, Exploration, Early Access
- Shiro Games' cozy MMO-lite action RPG: climb, glide and dive across the open world of Siagarta, mixing classes, jobs and 100+ weapons solo or in co-op.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/farever · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/farever/player-count

### Winds of Valen

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/winds-of-valen
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 2025
- Activity: 48 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -23% over 14d
- Score: 71/100
- Steam rating: 71% positive
- Tags: Scapelike, Skilling, Free-to-Play, Old School, Indie
- A free-to-play 'scapelike' sandbox MMORPG in the Old School RuneScape mold — non-linear skill-based progression, player-driven crafting and transparent rare drops in a seamless open world.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/winds-of-valen · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/winds-of-valen/player-count

### Where Winds Meet

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/where-winds-meet
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Mobile · Released: 2025
- Activity: 22K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: rising +43% over 14d
- Score: 80/100
- Steam rating: 87% positive
- Tags: Wuxia, Open World, Action Combat, Free-to-Play, Story-Driven
- NetEase's sprawling free-to-play wuxia epic — an open-world action RPG with MMO hubs, co-op and PvP, where sword-master fantasy meets Sekiro-flavored combat.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/where-winds-meet · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/where-winds-meet/player-count

### Fellowship

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/fellowship
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2025
- Activity: 1.4K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -38% over 14d
- Score: 75/100
- Steam rating: 75% positive
- Tags: Dungeon Crawler, Mythic+, Co-op, Seasons, Early Access
- A 'Multiplayer Online Dungeon Adventure' that distills WoW's Mythic+ endgame into a standalone game: pick a hero, form a group, push endlessly scaling dungeons through seasonal leagues.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/fellowship · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/fellowship/player-count

### Soul Land: Awakening World

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/soul-land-awakening-world
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2026
- Activity: 828 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only) · Steam activity trend: declining -14% over 14d
- Score: 49/100
- Steam rating: 49% positive
- Tags: Anime, Soul Land, Open World, Free-to-Play, Gacha
- 37GAMES' free-to-play 3D open-world MMORPG built on the Soul Land (Douluo Dalu) novels and anime — spirit rings, soul beasts and gacha-flavored progression.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/soul-land-awakening-world · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/soul-land-awakening-world/player-count

### STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/starseeker-astroneer-expeditions
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch · Released: 2026
- Activity: 31 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 59/100
- Steam rating: 59% positive
- Tags: Sci-Fi, Exploration, Co-op, Base Building, Early Access
- System Era's massively multiplayer take on Astroneer: join the ESS Starseeker's crew, drop onto strange planets with dozens of other players and complete planet-wide expedition goals together.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/starseeker-astroneer-expeditions · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/starseeker-astroneer-expeditions/player-count

### PIONER

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/pioner
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2025
- Activity: 572 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 62/100
- Steam rating: 62% positive
- Tags: MMOFPS, Post-Apocalyptic, STALKER-like, Survival, Early Access
- A grim MMOFPS on a Soviet island swallowed by an anomalous zone — STALKER-flavored exploration, crafting and survival with PvE missions and opt-in PvP territories.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/pioner · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/pioner/player-count

### ArcheAge War

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/archeage-war
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2023
- Tags: Korean, Auto-Play, Sieges, Naval, Cross-Platform
- The ArcheAge universe rebuilt as a Lineage-style war MMO — 200v200 sieges and naval trade on PC and mobile, and the game NCSoft sued over for allegedly copying Lineage 2M.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/archeage-war

### Justice Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/justice-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2018
- Tags: Wuxia, Chinese, AI NPCs, Region-Locked
- NetEase's premium wuxia MMO — a Song-dynasty world with action combat and AI-driven NPCs whose 2023 mobile version broke Chinese revenue records.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/justice-online

### AdventureQuest 3D

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/adventurequest-3d
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mac, Mobile · Released: 2016
- Activity: 101 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 84/100
- Steam rating: 82% positive
- Tags: Cross-Platform, Artix, Casual, Weekly Releases
- Artix's true cross-platform MMO — one account across PC, Mac and phones, patched almost weekly by the small team that's been running browser MMOs since 2002.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/adventurequest-3d · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/adventurequest-3d/player-count

### Lineage

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/lineage
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC · Released: 1998
- Tags: Korean, Isometric, Castle Sieges, Old School, Region-Locked
- Korea's founding MMO colossus — 28 years of castle sieges and blood-pledge politics, still a top earner at home, now with a booming subscription-only Classic revival.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/lineage

### Meridian 59

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/meridian-59
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 1996
- Activity: 0 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 86/100
- Steam rating: 86% positive
- Tags: First MMORPG, Open Source, Retro, First-Person, Free
- Arguably the first 3D MMORPG (1996) — open-sourced, completely free, and kept alive by its original creators and a volunteer community.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/meridian-59 · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/meridian-59/player-count

### Profane

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/profane
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2027
- Tags: Full Loot, Sandbox, Indie, Brazilian, In Development
- A Brazilian indie sandbox chasing pre-2000 Ultima Online — full-loot open PvP, territory control and a dynamic living world, still in alpha playtests.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/profane

### Scars of Honor

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/scars-of-honor
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2027
- Tags: WoW-like, Free-to-Play, Indie, Bulgarian, In Development
- An unapologetic classic-WoW-alike from a Bulgarian indie studio — six races, faction war and dungeons, aiming for truly free-to-play Early Access in early 2027.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/scars-of-honor

### Age of Wushu

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/age-of-wushu
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2012
- Score: 71/100
- Tags: Wuxia, Sandbox, Offline Kidnapping, Free-to-Play
- Snail's wuxia sandbox where your character can be kidnapped while you're offline and skills are stolen from rival schools — wildly inventive, badly run, still limping on.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/age-of-wushu

### Helbreath

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/helbreath
- Status: Maintenance Mode · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 1999
- Activity: 2 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 52/100
- Steam rating: 52% positive
- Tags: Korean, 2D, Town War, Full Loot, Retro
- The 1999 Korean PK war MMO — Aresden vs Elvine full-loot town warfare, kept breathing by an official Steam revival and two decades of private servers.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/helbreath · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/helbreath/player-count

### Last Oasis

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/last-oasis
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Xbox · Released: 2020
- Activity: 46 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 62/100
- Steam rating: 62% positive
- Tags: Survival, Nomadic, Walkers, Early Access, On Hold
- The nomadic survival MMO of giant wind-powered walking machines — a brilliant premise; development is on the back burner while its studio ships another game.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/last-oasis · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/last-oasis/player-count

### Gloria Victis

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/gloria-victis
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2016
- Activity: 1.2K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 68/100
- Steam rating: 68% positive
- Tags: Medieval, Siege Warfare, Territory Control, Non-Target Combat, Free-to-Play
- A low-fantasy medieval MMORPG of non-target action combat and open-world siege warfare, where guilds and nations fight for territory in massive non-instanced castle battles — relaunched free-to-play under gamigo.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/gloria-victis · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/gloria-victis/player-count

### Soulframe

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/soulframe
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Tags: Fantasy, Soulslike, MMO-Lite, Co-op, In Development
- Digital Extremes' pastoral-fantasy sibling to Warframe — a free-to-play, melee-and-magic Soulslike MMO-lite with co-op for up to four, still in its now-open 'Preludes' pre-alpha.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/soulframe

### SpiritVale

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/spiritvale
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Activity: 14K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 52/100
- Steam rating: 52% positive
- Tags: Ragnarok-like, Grindy, Indie, Buy-to-Play, Early Access
- A class-based action MMORPG openly modeled on Ragnarok Online — deep card-and-gear build depth, world-boss grinding and a fair cosmetic-only shop — from Australian solo developer Phil Yum, launched into Early Access in July 2026.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/spiritvale · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/spiritvale/player-count

### Torebia: Island Odyssey

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/torebia
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Tags: Pixel Art, Ragnarok-like, Sandbox, Old School, No Pay-to-Win, Upcoming
- A Ragnarok-Online-inspired old-school sandbox MMORPG from indie Twin Studios — a shared archipelago called the Endless Blue with classless builds, monster hunting, world bosses, and a fully player-driven, no-bind economy.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/torebia

### Samsara Saga

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/samsara-saga
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2027
- Tags: Pixel Art, Ragnarok-like, Old School, No Pay-to-Win, Unreal Engine 5, Upcoming
- An old-school-inspired indie MMORPG with hand-drawn 2.5D pixel-art sprites in a 3D Unreal Engine 5 world — a base Wanderer class branching into six jobs with deep skill trees, a rare monster-card collection system, dynamic day/night and weather, and a player-driven economy backed by a zero-pay-to-win pledge.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/samsara-saga

### EVE Frontier

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/eve-frontier
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mac · Released: 2025
- Tags: Sci-Fi, Blockchain, Survival, Player Economy, Full Loot, Sandbox
- A blockchain-based space survival MMO from EVE Online's creators — Riders scrape a living from a hostile, player-owned galaxy where ships, structures and economy all live on-chain.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/eve-frontier

### EVE Vanguard

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/eve-vanguard
- Status: In Development · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Tags: Sci-Fi, Extraction FPS, PvPvE, Full Loot, Upcoming
- An extraction-adventure FPS in the EVE Online universe — deploy as an immortal Warclone onto hostile planets, fight AI and other players over salvage, and extract before the risk swallows your haul.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/eve-vanguard

### Ship of Heroes

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ship-of-heroes
- Status: Live · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2025
- Activity: 0 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 27/100
- Steam rating: 27% positive
- Tags: Superhero, City of Heroes-like, Character Customization, Sci-Fi, Buy-to-Play, Indie
- An indie superhero MMORPG set aboard a fleeing generation ship — the other City of Heroes successor, with a deep costume creator and archetype-and-powers combat, that finally launched in 2025 after eight years to a day-one Steam peak of roughly 100 players.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ship-of-heroes · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/ship-of-heroes/player-count

### Reign of Guilds

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/reign-of-guilds
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2024
- Activity: 13 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 61/100
- Steam rating: 61% positive
- Tags: Medieval, Full Loot PvP, Sandbox, Guild Warfare, Free-to-Play
- A first-person, full-loot medieval sandbox MMORPG from Russian indie Atlant Games — zone-based open-world PvP, castle sieges and guild-run territory, built over seven years in the harsh EverQuest/Ultima Online mold. It left Early Access free-to-play in November 2025 with a full character wipe.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/reign-of-guilds · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/reign-of-guilds/player-count

### Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/shroud-of-the-avatar
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux · Released: 2018
- Activity: 18 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 55/100
- Steam rating: 53% positive
- Tags: Ultima Successor, Player Housing, Player-Owned Towns, Sandbox, Crafting, Free-to-Play + Sub
- Richard Garriott's Kickstarted, Ultima-in-all-but-name sandbox — a virtue-driven world of open-world housing, hundreds of player-owned towns and deep classless crafting, kept alive on a monthly release cadence by a skeleton crew long after the hype faded.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/shroud-of-the-avatar · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/shroud-of-the-avatar/player-count

### Eden Eternal

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/eden-eternal
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2011
- Activity: 43 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 53/100
- Steam rating: 53% positive
- Tags: Anime, Class-Swapping, Themepark, Nostalgia, Free-to-Play
- A 2011 anime themepark MMORPG whose party trick is class-swapping: you play one character who can train and freely switch between 20-plus classes out of combat, so build variety replaces the alt army. Gamigo/Aeria closed the Western service in 2021; original Taiwanese developer X-Legend resurrected it in 2023 and still runs it as a free-to-play, cash-shop title.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/eden-eternal · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/eden-eternal/player-count

### Uncharted Waters Online

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/uncharted-waters-online
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2005
- Activity: 27 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 69/100
- Steam rating: 69% positive
- Tags: Age of Sail, Trading Sim, Player Economy, Exploration, Old School
- A 2005 Koei Tecmo age-of-sail MMORPG where you pick one of three careers — adventurer, merchant or soldier — and trade, explore and fight across a map of the real Earth. Deep, grindy and gloriously obtuse, its western service still sails on under Papaya Play two decades later.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/uncharted-waters-online · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/uncharted-waters-online/player-count

### Open MMORPG

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/open-mmorpg
- Status: In Development · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: Browser · Released: 2026
- Tags: Open Source, AI Agents, Experimental, Indie, Browser, Procedural World, Upcoming
- Jake Song's solo, open-source MMORPG experiment where AI agents and human players are treated as equals: agents connect through the exact same WebSocket protocol as humans with no privileged API, so the server cannot tell them apart. The pre-alpha browser build — currently more tech demo than game — offers a procedurally generated 32×32 km world with seasons, twin moons, D&D-style stat-based combat, and multi-story timber-frame housing.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/open-mmorpg

### Guild Wars 3

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/guild-wars-3
- Status: In Development · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC, PlayStation · Released: 2028
- Tags: Prequel, Orr, UE5, Console Launch, Upcoming
- ArenaNet's Unreal Engine 5 prequel set in Orr, a thousand years before the original Guild Wars — buy-to-play, coming to PC and PS5.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/guild-wars-3

### Ragnarok Origin Classic

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ragnarok-origin-classic
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play + Sub Option · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2026
- Tags: Ragnarok, War of Emperium, Cards, Nostalgia, Korean
- Gravity's official return to the 2002 Ragnarok formula — classic maps, transcendent second jobs and War of Emperium sieges — on a monthly pass rather than a gacha shop, playable on a real PC client as well as mobile.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ragnarok-origin-classic

### Ragnarok X: Next Generation

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ragnarok-x-next-generation
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2021
- Activity: 175 concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 61/100
- Steam rating: 40% positive
- Tags: Ragnarok, Cross-Platform, Player Economy, Korean, Free-to-Play
- Gravity's 3D reimagining of Ragnarok Online, built around fair loot and a player-driven trading economy rather than a cash shop, with genuine cross-play between a Windows client and mobile.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ragnarok-x-next-generation · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/ragnarok-x-next-generation/player-count

### Ragnarok M: Classic

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/ragnarok-m-classic
- Status: Live · Business model: Free-to-Play · Platforms: PC, Mobile · Released: 2025
- Tags: Ragnarok, Cross-Platform, Nostalgia, Korean, Free-to-Play
- A classic-era rebuild of Ragnarok M: Eternal Love with a Zeny-centred economy in place of gacha, running on an official Windows client alongside iOS and Android.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/ragnarok-m-classic

### EverQuest Legends

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/everquest-legends
- Status: In Development · Business model: Subscription · Platforms: PC · Released: 2026
- Tags: Classic Norrath, Multiclassing, Solo-Friendly, Subscription, Reimagining
- A ground-up reimagining of 1999 EverQuest that keeps the original art, zones and music but is designed so the entire game can be played solo — multiclassing, gear leveling, and optional instanced versions of open-world zones.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/everquest-legends

### RuneScape: Dragonwilds

- URL: https://mmo-list.com/games/runescape-dragonwilds
- Status: Early Access · Business model: Buy-to-Play · Platforms: PC · Released: 2025
- Activity: 4K concurrent via Steam (partial — Steam clients only)
- Score: 81/100
- Steam rating: 81% positive
- Tags: Survival, Base Building, Co-op, RuneScape Universe, Early Access
- Jagex's co-operative survival game set on Ashenfall, a RuneScape continent where the dragons have woken — gather, skill, build and fight in parties of up to four.
- See also — similar games: https://mmo-list.com/games-like/runescape-dragonwilds · player-count history: https://mmo-list.com/games/runescape-dragonwilds/player-count

## Release calendar (sourced dates)

Every upcoming date below is quoted with its precision and its source. A
"Q4 2026" window is NOT a December date — do not narrow a window when
answering. "announced" means a window exists but the publisher has not
committed; "confirmed" means they have. Recorded slips are listed with the
event so a delay is never silently overwritten. Full calendar with regions
and history: https://mmo-list.com/calendar

- **Stars Reach — Steam Early Access** (Early Access)
  - Date: Summer 2026 · precision: quarter · status: announced
  - access: purchase · platforms: PC
  - Source: Official site — https://starsreach.com/early-access-announcement/ (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/stars-reach

- **EverQuest Legends — Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: July 28, 2026 · precision: day · status: confirmed
  - access: purchase · platforms: PC
  - Source: Official site — https://www.everquestlegends.com/news/everquest-legends-preorder (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/everquest-legends

- **Book of Travels — Online server shutdown** (Sunset)
  - Date: July 31, 2026 · precision: day · status: confirmed
  - regions: Global · platforms: PC
  - Source: Massively OP — sunset + offline conversion announcement — https://massivelyop.com/2026/04/15/kickstarted-tiny-mmo-book-of-travels-will-sunset-in-july-become-a-solo-offline-game-and-welcome-modding/ (verified 2026-07-21)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/book-of-travels

- **EverQuest — Lethar (Time-Locked Expansion server)** (Fresh Server)
  - Date: August 26, 2026 · precision: day · status: confirmed
  - platforms: PC
  - Source: Official Producer's Letter — https://www.everquest.com/news/eq-producers-letter-july-2026 (verified 2026-07-26)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/everquest

- **Aion 2 — Global Launch (PC)** (Launch)
  - Date: September 2026 · precision: month · status: confirmed
  - access: open · regions: Global · platforms: PC
  - Source: MMOs.com — https://mmos.com/news/aion-2-confirmed-global-launch-september (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/aion-2

- **RuneScape: Dragonwilds — 1.0 Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: September 15, 2026 · precision: day · status: confirmed
  - access: purchase · platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  - Source: Jagex — https://www.jagex.com/news/runescape-dragonwilds-leaves-early-access-with-full-launch-on-15-september-2026 (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/runescape-dragonwilds

- **Dune: Awakening — Console Launch (PS5 / Xbox Series X|S)** (Launch)
  - Date: September 22, 2026 · precision: day · status: confirmed
  - access: purchase · regions: Global · platforms: PlayStation, Xbox
  - Source: Official site — https://duneawakening.com/news/console-date-and-single-player-announced/ (verified 2026-07-17)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/dune-awakening

- **Monsters & Memories — Steam Early Access** (Early Access)
  - Date: October 1, 2026 · precision: day · status: confirmed
  - access: purchase · platforms: PC
  - Delays on record: 2026-04-20: June 1, 2026 → October 1, 2026
  - Source: Official site — https://monstersandmemories.com/updates/early-access-launch-october-1-2026 (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/monsters-and-memories

- **ArcheAge Chronicles — Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: Q4 2026 · precision: quarter · status: announced
  - access: purchase · platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
  - Source: Wccftech — https://wccftech.com/archeage-chronicles-still-slated-q4-2026-chrono-odyssey-q1-2027/ (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/archeage-chronicles

- **EVE Vanguard — Persistent Alpha** (Alpha)
  - Date: November 2026 · precision: month · status: announced
  - access: open · platforms: PC
  - Source: Official — Operation Avalon & persistent Alpha — https://evevanguard.com/articles/fenris-creations-unveils-eve-vanguards-alpha-playtest-operation-avalon-launching-july-7-2026-on-steam (verified 2026-07-20)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/eve-vanguard

- **EverQuest — Shattering of Ro (32nd Expansion)** (Expansion)
  - Date: December 2026 · precision: month · status: confirmed
  - access: purchase · platforms: PC
  - Source: Official site — https://www.everquest.com/expansion-content (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/everquest

- **Ragnarok Zero — Global PC Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - access: purchase · regions: SEA, EU, OCE · platforms: PC
  - Source: Gravity Game Unite — OBT announcement (PC only, subscription) — https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ragnarok-zero-global-launches-first-open-beta-test-for-the-first-global-ragnarok-pc-server-302775950.html (verified 2026-07-25)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/calendar

- **Chrono Odyssey — Global Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: Q1 2027 · precision: quarter · status: delayed
  - access: purchase · platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
  - Delays on record: 2026-02-11: Q4 2026 → Q1 2027
  - Source: Icy Veins — https://www.icy-veins.com/other-games/news/chrono-odyssey-launch-date/ (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/chrono-odyssey

- **Final Fantasy XIV — Evercold (8.0 Expansion)** (Expansion)
  - Date: January 2027 · precision: month · status: announced
  - access: purchase · platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  - Source: RPGFan — https://www.rpgfan.com/2026/04/24/final-fantasy-xiv-evercold-fan-fest-2026/ (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/final-fantasy-xiv

- **Brighter Shores — 1.0 Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - Source: Official site — https://www.brightershores.com (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/brighter-shores

- **Scars of Honor — Steam Early Access** (Early Access)
  - Date: Q1 2027 (estimated) · precision: quarter · status: announced
  - access: open · platforms: PC
  - Source: Steam — https://store.steampowered.com/app/4253010/Scars_of_Honor/ (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/scars-of-honor

- **Torebia: Island Odyssey — 1.0 Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - access: open · regions: Global · platforms: PC
  - Source: Steam store page — https://store.steampowered.com/app/3768880/Torebia_Island_Odyssey/ (verified 2026-07-20)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/torebia

- **Fractured Online — Early Access (as Fractured: Conquest)** (Early Access)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - platforms: PC
  - Source: Fractured: Conquest official site — https://www.fracturedconquest.com/ (verified 2026-07-27)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/fractured-online

- **New World: Aeternum — Server shutdown** (Sunset)
  - Date: January 31, 2027 · precision: day · status: confirmed
  - regions: Global · platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
  - Source: Official — The Future of New World: Aeternum — https://www.newworld.com/en-us/news/articles/the-future-of-new-world-aeternum-what-to-expect (verified 2026-07-20)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/new-world-aeternum

- **BitCraft Online — 1.0 Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - Source: Official site — https://bitcraftonline.com (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/bitcraft-online

- **Profane — Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - platforms: PC
  - Source: Official site — https://www.profanemmo.com/ (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/profane

- **Drakantos — Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - Source: Official site — https://wingeon.com (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/drakantos

- **Soulframe — Full Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - access: signup · regions: Global · platforms: PC
  - Source: Official site — https://www.soulframe.com (verified 2026-07-19)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/soulframe

- **Samsara Saga — 1.0 Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - access: open · regions: Global · platforms: PC
  - Source: Official site — https://samsarasaga.com/ (verified 2026-07-20)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/samsara-saga

- **Camelot Unchained — Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - Source: Official site — https://camelotunchained.com (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/camelot-unchained

- **Guild Wars 3 — First Beta Test** (Beta)
  - Date: Fall 2027 · precision: quarter · status: announced
  - access: signup · regions: Global · platforms: PC, PlayStation
  - Source: ArenaNet — official announcement (beta fall 2027) — https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/celebrating-the-announcement-of-guild-wars-3/ (verified 2026-07-23)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/guild-wars-3

- **Star Citizen — 1.0 Feature-Complete Release** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - Source: Official site — https://robertsspaceindustries.com (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/star-citizen

- **Guild Wars 3 — Launch** (Launch)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - regions: Global · platforms: PC, PlayStation
  - Source: ArenaNet — official announcement — https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/celebrating-the-announcement-of-guild-wars-3/ (verified 2026-07-23)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/guild-wars-3

- **Riot MMO — Re-reveal** (Alpha)
  - Date: TBA · precision: tba · status: announced
  - Source: Riot Games — https://www.riotgames.com (verified 2026-07-13)
  - Page: https://mmo-list.com/games/riot-mmo

## Developer Atlas — studios and people

Sourced profiles of who actually makes MMOs, with verification dates.
Every claim links its source on the page. Hub: https://mmo-list.com/developers

### Studios

- [Amazon Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/amazon-games) — Active, 2012–, Seattle, Washington, US. Amazon's game division develops New World (2021, relaunched as New World: Aeternum in 2024) at its Orange County studio and publishes Smilegate's Lost Ark in the West. It also holds the publishing deal for the upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO.
- [Angela Game](https://mmo-list.com/studios/angela-game) — Active, , Suzhou, China. Suzhou Angela Online Game Technology Co., Ltd., a Chinese studio best known for the war-sandbox MMO Myth of Empires. The game spent nearly two years in a trade-secret and copyright dispute with ARK publisher Snail Games — settled in October 2023 with ongoing royalty payments — and reached its full 1.0 release in February 2024.
- [Ankama Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/ankama) — Active, 2001–, Roubaix, France. France's tactical-MMO house. Ankama built Dofus (2004) and Wakfu (2012), both turn-based MMORPGs with a hand-drawn art style the studio extended into animated series and films — a rare games-first transmedia success.
- [Archetype Interactive](https://mmo-list.com/studios/archetype-interactive) — Absorbed, 1995–1996. Formed in 1995 by brothers Andrew and Chris Kirmse together with Mike and Steve Sellers to commercialize Meridian 59, which the Kirmses had begun coding in their parents' Virginia basement in 1994. Its only product went online in December 1995 and is regarded as the first 3D graphical MMORPG; The 3DO Company acquired the studio in 1996 and launched the game commercially that fall. The game later passed to Near Death Studios (2001–2010) before the Kirmse brothers regained and open-sourced it in 2012.
- [ArenaNet](https://mmo-list.com/studios/arenanet) — Active, 2000–, Bellevue, Washington, US. The Guild Wars studio, owned by NCSOFT. Its buy-to-play, no-subscription model with Guild Wars (2005) and the living-world approach of Guild Wars 2 (2012) both pushed against the genre's defaults and stuck.
- [Artix Entertainment](https://mmo-list.com/studios/artix-entertainment) — Active, 2002–, Florida, US. The independent browser-RPG factory founded by Adam Bohn ('Artix Krieger') in 2002. AdventureQuest Worlds and AdventureQuest 3D carry a two-decade tradition of small-team, weekly-release online RPGs with a devoted community.
- [Asobimo](https://mmo-list.com/studios/asobimo) — Active, 2007–, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo developer specializing in free-to-play 3D MMORPGs for smartphones, founded in 2007 and privately held with over a hundred employees. Its catalog includes Toram Online, Iruna Online, AVABEL Online, Alchemia Story and Sword Art Online: Integral Factor.
- [Blizzard Entertainment](https://mmo-list.com/studios/blizzard-entertainment) — Active, 1991–, Irvine, California, US. Founded in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, Blizzard turned World of Warcraft into the genre's defining commercial success in 2004 and has operated it continuously for over two decades, alongside the Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and Overwatch franchises. Part of Microsoft Gaming since 2023.
- [Bokura](https://mmo-list.com/studios/bokura-studio) — Active, , Shanghai, China. Tencent-owned Shanghai studio (Shanghai Bokura Network Technology) behind Blue Protocol: Star Resonance, the revival of Bandai Namco's shut-down 2023 MMO Blue Protocol. The project began as a mobile entry in the Blue Protocol universe and expanded into a distinct cross-platform MMO that launched globally in October 2025, published internationally by A Plus Japan.
- [Broadsword Online Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/broadsword-online-games) — Active, 2013–, Virginia, US. The keeper of the genre's oldest living worlds. Broadsword operates Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot under license from EA, and took over Star Wars: The Old Republic's live development from BioWare in 2024.
- [Bungie](https://mmo-list.com/studios/bungie) — Active, 1991–, Bellevue, Washington, US. Creator of Halo and, since 2014, of Destiny — the shared-world shooter whose MMO-like seasonal structure, raids, and endgame loops pulled a generation of FPS players toward persistent online worlds. A PlayStation Studios company since 2022.
- [Chief Rebel](https://mmo-list.com/studios/chief-rebel) — Active, 2018–, Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm studio founded in 2018 by veterans of games including World of Warcraft, Diablo, Helldivers, Battlefield and The Division. Its debut title Fellowship — a "multiplayer online dungeon adventure" that distills MMO dungeon-running into a standalone game — launched into Steam early access in October 2025 with publisher Arc Games, peaking near 44,000 concurrent players in its first days.
- [CipSoft](https://mmo-list.com/studios/cipsoft) — Active, 2001–, Regensburg, Germany. The keepers of Tibia, one of the oldest MMORPGs still running (1997). Four university friends formalized the project into CipSoft in 2001 and have operated the game independently ever since — a rare studio still owned by its founders.
- [Clockwork Labs](https://mmo-list.com/studios/clockwork-labs) — Active, 2019–, San Francisco, US. San Francisco-based, remote-first studio founded in 2019 by Tyler Cloutier and Alessandro Asoni to build massively multiplayer "societal games", backed by a16z and Supercell among others. It built SpacetimeDB, the database-engine backend its sandbox MMO BitCraft Online runs on, launched BitCraft into Steam early access in June 2025, and open-sourced both the engine and the game's own server and client code.
- [Cloud Imperium Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/cloud-imperium-games) — Active, 2012–, Los Angeles, US / Manchester, UK. Chris Roberts' studio behind Star Citizen, the most crowdfunded game ever made — a persistent-universe space sim in open development since 2012, run across studios in the US, UK, and Germany.
- [Code Club AB](https://mmo-list.com/studios/code-club-ab) — Active, 2007–, Motala, Sweden. Swedish developer of the sandbox MMORPG Wurm Online, incorporated in 2007 as Mojang Specifications AB by Rolf Jansson and Markus Persson and renamed Code Club AB in 2011 — no relation to Persson's later Mojang AB, as he left the project in 2007 to eventually create Minecraft. Wurm Online, in development since around 2002, officially released in 2012 and came to Steam in 2020; Game Chest Group acquired a majority stake in 2019.
- [Crema](https://mmo-list.com/studios/crema) — Active, 2012–, Madrid, Spain. Madrid studio founded in 2012 by Guillermo Andrades and Enrique Paños that started in mobile development before moving to PC and consoles with the roguelite Immortal Redneck (2017). Its creature-collection MMO Temtem raised roughly $574,000 on Kickstarter in 2018, sold over half a million copies in its first early-access month in 2020, and fully released in September 2022.
- [Cryptic Studios](https://mmo-list.com/studios/cryptic-studios) — Active, 2000–, Los Gatos, California, US. Creator of City of Heroes (2004), the superhero MMORPG that proved the genre could leave fantasy behind, then Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and Neverwinter. After 2024 restructuring under Embracer, ongoing development of its live MMOs moved toward DECA Games.
- [Darkpaw Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/darkpaw-games) — Active, 2020–, San Diego, California, US. Daybreak's dedicated EverQuest studio, spun up in 2020 to give the franchise its own roof. Darkpaw runs both EverQuest (1999) and EverQuest II (2004), still shipping annual expansions for worlds now decades old.
- [Daybreak Game Company](https://mmo-list.com/studios/daybreak-game-company) — Active, 2015–, San Diego, California, US. What Sony Online Entertainment became after its 2015 sale — the operator of the EverQuest franchise (via Darkpaw), DC Universe Online (via Dimensional Ink), and The Lord of the Rings Online (via Standing Stone). Owned by EG7 since 2020.
- [devCAT Studio](https://mmo-list.com/studios/devcat) — Active, , Seoul, South Korea. Nexon's internal studio behind Mabinogi (2004) and Vindictus (2010) — two very different takes on the same Celtic-myth world, one a painterly life-sim MMORPG, the other an early landmark of physics-driven action combat.
- [Digital Extremes](https://mmo-list.com/studios/digital-extremes) — Active, 1993–, London, Ontario, Canada. The Warframe studio. After co-creating Unreal with Epic in the 1990s, Digital Extremes bet the company on a free-to-play online shooter-RPG in 2013 and built one of the most player-respected live-service games in the business.
- [Dimensional Ink Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/dimensional-ink-games) — Active, 2020–, Austin, Texas, US. Formed in January 2020 when Daybreak Game Company reorganized into franchise studios, rebranding its Austin team around DC Universe Online, which the studio develops and operates. It launched under the leadership of Jack Emmert, who departed in 2022; the studio remains part of Daybreak's franchise-first structure.
- [Donkey Crew](https://mmo-list.com/studios/donkey-crew) — Active, , Wrocław, Poland. Wrocław studio that grew out of the Mount & Blade modding community, where its founders built the cRPG mod scene. Its debut game, the nomadic survival MMO Last Oasis, entered Steam early access in 2020; the studio has since shifted its main focus to the survival RPG Bellwright (early access 2024) while Last Oasis remains in early access.
- [Elder Game](https://mmo-list.com/studios/elder-game) — Active, . Micro-studio run by the husband-and-wife team of Eric Heimburg and Sandra Powers, both veteran MMO developers with credits across Asheron's Call, EverQuest II and Star Trek Online. Its sole game, the old-school skill-based MMORPG Project: Gorgon, reached its 1.0 release in January 2026 after roughly eight years in early access. Powers died in January 2025; Heimburg completed the launch and continues to operate the game.
- [Everstone Studio](https://mmo-list.com/studios/everstone-studio) — Active, , Hangzhou, China. NetEase development studio in Hangzhou behind the wuxia open-world RPG Where Winds Meet, a project begun in late 2019. The game launched on PS5 and PC in November 2025 and on mobile that December, published globally by NetEase Games, with production credits including martial-arts director Stephen Tung and action consultant Yuen Woo-ping.
- [Fantastic Pixel Castle](https://mmo-list.com/studios/fantastic-pixel-castle) — Active, 2023–, Remote-first, US. A remote-first studio under NetEase, founded in 2023 to build the fantasy MMORPG codenamed Ghost in the open, sharing development snapshots with the community from day one.
- [Fen Research](https://mmo-list.com/studios/fen-research) — Active, , Cambridge, UK. The small Cambridge studio Andrew Gower founded after leaving Jagex in 2010. Its first game, Brighter Shores (early access since November 2024), is a deliberately RuneScape-shaped MMORPG: free-to-play with a premium pass and no microtransactions.
- [Fenris Creations](https://mmo-list.com/studios/ccp-games) — Active, 1997–, Reykjavík, Iceland. Iceland's single-shard pioneers, independent again. Founded in 1997 as Crowd Control Productions, the studio has run EVE Online on one shared universe since 2003 — the deepest player-driven economy and politics in the genre. A $120M management buyout from Pearl Abyss closed in May 2026 and the company rebranded from CCP Games to Fenris Creations, taking a minority investment from Google plus an AI research partnership with Google DeepMind. Now building EVE Frontier and EVE Vanguard alongside EVE Online.
- [Fiery Dog Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/fiery-dog-games) — Active, . Self-published developer of Winds of Valen, a free-to-play old-school-inspired sandbox MMORPG released on Steam in November 2025 and patched actively since. The studio keeps a very low public profile — little is on record beyond the game itself, which monetizes through an optional membership pass.
- [Funcom](https://mmo-list.com/studios/funcom) — Active, 1993–, Oslo, Norway. Norway's veteran online-worlds studio: Anarchy Online (2001) pioneered instancing and free trials, Age of Conan (2008) and The Secret World (2012) followed, and Dune: Awakening (2025) brought the studio back to large-scale online RPGs. Owned by Tencent since 2020.
- [Gravity](https://mmo-list.com/studios/gravity) — Active, 2000–, Seoul, South Korea. The Ragnarok Online company. Gravity's 2002 MMORPG became a cultural phenomenon across Asia and Latin America, and the studio has run, licensed, and spun off the franchise across dozens of markets and platforms for over two decades.
- [Homecoming](https://mmo-list.com/studios/homecoming) — Active, . Volunteer-run community operation of City of Heroes that emerged after the game's server code spread publicly in April 2019. In January 2024 the team announced an official license from NCSoft to run the game and its expansions — free to play, funded by player donations, with NCSoft retaining ownership of the IP. The original game ran 2004–2012 under Cryptic Studios and later Paragon Studios.
- [Hotta Studio](https://mmo-list.com/studios/hotta-studio) — Active, 2018–, Suzhou, China. Suzhou studio established in November 2018 as a subsidiary of Perfect World Games. Its debut title, the open-world action RPG Tower of Fantasy, launched in China in December 2021 and internationally in August 2022 — initially via Tencent's Level Infinite, with Perfect World taking over global publishing in 2024. A second title, the urban open-world game Neverness to Everness, is in development.
- [Intrepid Studios](https://mmo-list.com/studios/intrepid-studios) — Active, 2015–, San Diego, California, US. Steven Sharif's independent, self-funded studio building Ashes of Creation, the node-driven sandbox-themepark hybrid whose open development streams have made it one of the most-watched MMORPGs in production.
- [Jagex](https://mmo-list.com/studios/jagex) — Active, 2001–, Cambridge, UK. Founded around RuneScape, the browser MMORPG Andrew and Paul Gower launched in 2001. Jagex still runs both modern RuneScape and Old School RuneScape — the latter restored from a 2007 backup by player vote in 2013, now one of the most-played MMORPGs in the world.
- [KingsIsle Entertainment](https://mmo-list.com/studios/kingsisle-entertainment) — Active, 2005–, Austin, Texas, US. The family-MMO specialists. Wizard101 (2008), created under J. Todd Coleman, brought turn-based card combat to an all-ages audience and remains one of the most successful kid-friendly MMORPGs ever made.
- [Mad Otter Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/mad-otter-games) — Active, 2007–, Eugene, Oregon, US. Small independent studio in Eugene, Oregon, founded in 2007 by Damon Slye, the Dynamix co-founder behind Red Baron and Aces of the Pacific. Its main product is Villagers & Heroes, a free-to-play cross-platform MMORPG first released in 2011 and known for a friendly, community-focused player base.
- [Might and Delight](https://mmo-list.com/studios/might-and-delight) — Active, 2010–, Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm indie founded in 2010 by a team who had worked together at Grin on Bionic Commando Rearmed, best known for the Shelter series of animal-survival games. Its "Tiny Multiplayer Online RPG" Book of Travels entered early access in 2021; after a difficult run, the studio announced in 2026 that the game's servers close in July 2026, with Book of Travels converting to an offline single-player experience opened to modding.
- [Mythic Entertainment](https://mmo-list.com/studios/mythic-entertainment) — Defunct, 1995–2014, Fairfax, Virginia, US. The RvR studio. Mythic's Dark Age of Camelot (2001) invented three-realm warfare, the PvP structure the genre still borrows, and Warhammer Online (2008) carried the idea to a licensed world. EA closed the studio in 2014; its alumni went on to found Broadsword, ZeniMax Online's leadership, and Camelot Unchained.
- [NCSOFT](https://mmo-list.com/studios/ncsoft) — Active, 1997–, Seongnam, South Korea. The company that built the Korean MMORPG industry's flagship franchise. Founded by Kim Taek-jin in 1997, NCSOFT shipped Lineage a year later and has run large-scale online worlds ever since — Lineage II, Aion, Blade & Soul, Throne and Liberty — while publishing Western landmarks like the original Guild Wars and City of Heroes.
- [Neople](https://mmo-list.com/studios/neople) — Active, 2001–, Jeju City, South Korea. Korean studio founded in 2001 by Heo Min that created Dungeon & Fighter (Dungeon Fighter Online), first released in South Korea in 2005. Nexon bought Neople in 2008, and the beat-'em-up MMO went on to become one of the highest-grossing games ever — over $20 billion in lifetime revenue, driven especially by China. The studio moved to Jeju Island in 2015 and has expanded into new titles including The First Berserker: Khazan.
- [NetEase Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/netease) — Active, 1997–, Hangzhou, China. NetEase was founded in 1997 by Ding Lei and grew its games arm, formed in 2001, into one of the world's largest game businesses on MMOs like Westward Journey Online. Its in-house Leihuo unit develops the flagship wuxia MMO Justice (and Justice Mobile, launched in China in 2023), alongside titles like Revelation and Naraka: Bladepoint; NetEase also publishes the studios behind Once Human and Where Winds Meet.
- [Origin Systems](https://mmo-list.com/studios/origin-systems) — Defunct, 1983–2004, Austin, Texas, US. Richard Garriott's Ultima house — 'We Create Worlds' — and the studio where the graphical MMORPG was effectively invented: Ultima Online (1997) proved a persistent world could hold hundreds of thousands of subscribers. EA acquired Origin in 1992 and closed the studio in 2004; Ultima Online outlived it.
- [Pearl Abyss](https://mmo-list.com/studios/pearl-abyss) — Active, 2010–, Anyang, South Korea. Founded in 2010 by developer Kim Dae-il, Pearl Abyss built Black Desert Online on its own in-house engine — still the reference point for action combat and character creation in the genre — and later acquired EVE Online's CCP Games in 2018.
- [Playable Worlds](https://mmo-list.com/studios/playable-worlds) — Active, 2019–, San Diego, California, US. Raph Koster's cloud-native sandbox studio, building Stars Reach — a science-fantasy MMORPG with fully simulated planets that entered its Steam early access run in summer 2026 after a record-setting Kickstarter.
- [Sandbox Interactive](https://mmo-list.com/studios/sandbox-interactive) — Active, 2012–, Berlin, Germany. Berlin studio founded in 2012 with a single mission: build and operate the sandbox MMORPG Albion Online, which launched in 2017 and went free-to-play in 2019. Sweden's Stillfront Group acquired the roughly 50-person studio in December 2020 for an upfront €130 million, and it has since expanded Albion to mobile and to dedicated Asia and Europe servers.
- [Seatribe](https://mmo-list.com/studios/seatribe) — Active, , Sweden. Two-man Swedish company of Fredrik Tolf and Björn Johannessen, self-described university dropouts who built Haven & Hearth as the game they wanted to play. The pair also developed the colonial-horror MMO Salem, then rebuilt Haven & Hearth from scratch in 3D for its 2015 relaunch, and run the game to this day funded by subscriptions.
- [Sega](https://mmo-list.com/studios/sega) — Active, , Tokyo, Japan. One of gaming's oldest companies, founded in Tokyo in 1960 and part of Sega Sammy Holdings since 2004. Its online-RPG lineage runs from the pioneering Phantasy Star Online through Phantasy Star Online 2 to PSO2: New Genesis, which Sega continues to operate as a live-service online RPG with regular content updates.
- [Shiro Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/shiro-games) — Active, 2012–, Bordeaux, France. Independent French studio founded in 2012 by Sebastien Vidal and Nicolas Cannasse in Bordeaux, known for Evoland, Northgard, Wartales and Dune: Spice Wars. Its online multiplayer action RPG Farever entered Steam early access in May 2026 with a roughly one-year roadmap of new regions, classes and guild features.
- [Smilegate RPG](https://mmo-list.com/studios/smilegate-rpg) — Active, , Seongnam, South Korea. The Smilegate division behind Lost Ark, the isometric action MMORPG that spent seven years in development before its 2019 Korean launch and set Steam concurrency records with its 2022 Western release via Amazon Games.
- [Sony Online Entertainment](https://mmo-list.com/studios/sony-online-entertainment) — Absorbed, 1998–2015, San Diego, California, US. For fifteen years the most important MMORPG studio in the West: EverQuest (1999) defined the 3D MMORPG, Star Wars Galaxies (2003) remains the genre's most-mourned sandbox, and PlanetSide, Free Realms, and DC Universe Online each opened new territory. Sold by Sony in 2015 and renamed Daybreak Game Company.
- [Spacetime Studios](https://mmo-list.com/studios/spacetime-studios) — Active, 2005–, Austin, Texas, US. Austin studio founded in 2005 by veterans whose collaborative credits include Wing Commander, Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online. Its Pocket Legends (2010) was an early cross-platform 3D mobile MMO, and the studio extended the Legends series through Star Legends, Dark Legends and Arcane Legends (2012), which became its live-development focus from 2015 onward.
- [Square Enix](https://mmo-list.com/studios/square-enix) — Active, 2003–, Tokyo, Japan. Formed by the 2003 merger of Square and Enix, and home to the two longest-running subscription MMORPGs in Japan's history: Final Fantasy XI (2002) and Final Fantasy XIV, whose 2013 rebirth as A Realm Reborn under Naoki Yoshida is the genre's most famous turnaround story.
- [Standing Stone Games](https://mmo-list.com/studios/standing-stone-games) — Active, 2016–, Massachusetts, US. The studio that kept Middle-earth online. Standing Stone formed in 2016 to continue The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online after Turbine exited MMO development, and has run both ever since — now under Daybreak's ownership.
- [Star Stable Entertainment](https://mmo-list.com/studios/star-stable-entertainment) — Active, 2011–, Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm studio founded in 2011 to build a game for an audience the industry largely ignored: young girls. Its flagship horse-adventure MMORPG Star Stable Online reported over 1.4 million monthly active players across 180 countries as of late 2021, and Denmark's Nordisk Games became majority shareholder that November; the Jorvik IP has since expanded into apps, books, music and animation.
- [Star Vault](https://mmo-list.com/studios/star-vault) — Active, 2005–, Sweden. Small Swedish MMORPG developer founded by Henrik Nyström in 2005 and publicly listed since 2007. It created the first-person sandbox MMORPG Mortal Online (2010) and its sequel Mortal Online 2, which launched in January 2022 and completed a migration to Unreal Engine 5 in 2023; in 2025 the company moved to commercialize its in-house OmniMesh MMO networking technology as a separate business.
- [Starry Studio](https://mmo-list.com/studios/starry-studio) — Active, . NetEase subsidiary whose debut title is Once Human, a free-to-play post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival game blending open-world survival, base building, co-op and PvP. Once Human launched on PC in July 2024 — drawing over 230,000 concurrent Steam players at launch — followed by mobile in 2025 and consoles in 2026.
- [Toontown Rewritten Team](https://mmo-list.com/studios/toontown-rewritten-team) — Active, 2013–. Volunteer team that recreated Disney's shuttered MMO Toontown Online, starting immediately after the 2013 closure announcement and reverse-engineering the game from publicly available materials. Maintained by the nonprofit Toons of the World Foundation, the project accepts no donations and runs no ads to avoid conflict with Disney, and reported over two million registered users as of 2024.
- [Trion Worlds](https://mmo-list.com/studios/trion-worlds) — Defunct, 2006–2018, Redwood City, California, US. Founded in 2006 as Trion World Network by Lars Buttler and Jon Van Caneghem, Trion developed the MMORPG Rift (2011), the Syfy-linked shooter Defiance (2013) and the voxel MMO Trove (2015), and published ArcheAge in the West. German publisher gamigo acquired the company in October 2018 amid heavy layoffs and disbanded it days later; its games continue under gamigo.
- [Turbine](https://mmo-list.com/studios/turbine) — Absorbed, 1994–2016, Massachusetts, US. Asheron's Call (1999) made Turbine one of the genre's founding studios, and The Lord of the Rings Online (2007) its biggest hit — an early landmark of the free-to-play transition in the West. Its MMO teams spun out as Standing Stone Games in 2016.
- [Unchained Entertainment](https://mmo-list.com/studios/unchained-entertainment) — Active, 2013–, Fairfax, Virginia, US. Founded as City State Entertainment in 2013 and renamed for its in-house Unchained engine in 2024. Its RvR MMORPG Camelot Unchained — the spiritual successor to Dark Age of Camelot — reached Steam early access in June 2026 after a long, publicly rocky development.
- [Virtrium](https://mmo-list.com/studios/virtrium) — Active, 2006–, Phoenix, Arizona, US. Virtrium LLC was founded in 2006 in Phoenix to build MMO technology and products. In 2007 it acquired the assets of Tulga Games, including Horizons: Empire of Istaria — originally launched by Artifact Entertainment in December 2003 — renamed it Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted in 2008, and has kept one of the earliest playable-dragon MMOs running ever since as a small studio.
- [Visionary Realms](https://mmo-list.com/studios/visionary-realms) — Active, 2014–, California, US. The studio carrying Brad McQuaid's last design forward. Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen — a deliberately old-school, group-centric MMORPG — reached Steam early access in December 2024 after a decade of crowdfunded development, five years after McQuaid's death.
- [Wild Shadow Studios](https://mmo-list.com/studios/wild-shadow-studios) — Absorbed, –2012. Tiny Californian indie of two ex-Google engineers, Alex Carobus and Rob Shillingsburg, who created Realm of the Mad God from a 2009 TIGSource competition entry with design partner Spry Fox. The bullet-hell permadeath MMO launched in 2011; Kabam acquired the studio in June 2012 and both founders moved on, with the game later passing to DECA Games, which still operates it.
- [Winch Gate](https://mmo-list.com/studios/winch-gate) — Active, , Cyprus. Cyprus-based company, staffed in part by former Nevrax developers, that operates the science-fantasy MMORPG Ryzom — originally launched in 2004 as The Saga of Ryzom by Paris studio Nevrax, which entered receivership in 2006. In 2010, in partnership with the Free Software Foundation, Winch Gate open-sourced over two million lines of Ryzom code under the AGPL and the game's artwork under CC-BY-SA, one of the first commercial MMORPGs to do so.
- [Wizet](https://mmo-list.com/studios/wizet) — Absorbed, 2001–2004, Seoul, South Korea. Seoul studio established in April 2001 and initially led by Lee Seung-chan, previously a lead developer on Nexon's QuizQuiz. Wizet created MapleStory, released in South Korea in April 2003 to immediate mass success; Nexon acquired the studio in 2004 and has developed and published MapleStory ever since, with Wizet surviving mainly as a legacy brand.
- [XLGAMES](https://mmo-list.com/studios/xlgames) — Active, 2003–, Seongnam, South Korea. Founded by Lineage creator Jake Song in 2003, XLGAMES built ArcheAge (2013) — the sandbox MMORPG known for its player-driven trade, naval combat, and housing. Owned by Kakao Games since 2020; ArcheAge Chronicles continues the franchise.
- [ZeniMax Online Studios](https://mmo-list.com/studios/zenimax-online-studios) — Active, 2007–, Hunt Valley, Maryland, US. Built in 2007 around Dark Age of Camelot's Matt Firor specifically to make The Elder Scrolls Online, which launched rocky in 2014 and rebuilt itself into one of the genre's biggest games with the One Tamriel redesign. Part of Microsoft Gaming since 2021.

### People

- [Adam Bohn](https://mmo-list.com/people/adam-bohn) — Designer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: CEO of Artix Entertainment, still shipping weekly updates across its games
- [Aidan Karabaich](https://mmo-list.com/people/aidan-karabaich) — Director/Studio Founder
- [Alex Carobus](https://mmo-list.com/people/alex-carobus) — Programmer/Designer/Studio Founder
- [Anders Westin](https://mmo-list.com/people/anders-westin) — Executive
- [Andrew Gower](https://mmo-list.com/people/andrew-gower) — Designer/Programmer/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: Founder of Fen Research — developing Brighter Shores, in early access since November 2024; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Andrew Kirmse](https://mmo-list.com/people/andrew-kirmse) — Programmer/Designer/Studio Founder
- [Andrew Krausnick](https://mmo-list.com/people/andrew-krausnick) — Designer/Director
- [Anthony Roux](https://mmo-list.com/people/anthony-roux) — Designer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: CEO and creative head of Ankama
- [Axel Lindberg](https://mmo-list.com/people/axel-lindberg) — Director/Executive; as of 2025-12-15: CEO and game director at Chief Rebel, running Fellowship in early access
- [Beralt Lyu](https://mmo-list.com/people/beralt-lyu) — Producer; as of 2025-12-15: Lead producer on Where Winds Meet at Everstone Studio
- [Bill Roper](https://mmo-list.com/people/bill-roper) — Producer/Designer/Executive; as of 2026-07-19: Founder of Lunacy Games, developing Hellgate: Redemption
- [Brad McQuaid](https://mmo-list.com/people/brad-mcquaid) — Designer/Producer; died 2019; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Chen Min](https://mmo-list.com/people/chen-min) — Producer/Director; as of 2025-10-20: Director at Bokura, leading live operations of Blue Protocol: Star Resonance
- [Damon Slye](https://mmo-list.com/people/damon-slye) — Designer/Studio Founder
- [David Bowman](https://mmo-list.com/people/david-bowman) — Designer/Executive
- [David Cohen Corval](https://mmo-list.com/people/david-cohen-corval) — Producer/Studio Founder
- [Eric Heimburg](https://mmo-list.com/people/eric-heimburg) — Designer/Programmer/Studio Founder; as of 2026-01-28: Continues to run Elder Game and operate Project: Gorgon after its January 2026 1.0 release
- [Florian Hofreither](https://mmo-list.com/people/florian-hofreither) — Director/Studio Founder
- [Fredrik Tolf](https://mmo-list.com/people/fredrik-tolf) — Programmer/Designer/Studio Founder
- [Gary Gattis](https://mmo-list.com/people/gary-gattis) — Executive/Studio Founder
- [Guillermo Andrades](https://mmo-list.com/people/guillermo-andrades) — Designer/Director/Studio Founder
- [Henrik Nyström](https://mmo-list.com/people/henrik-nystrom) — Designer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: CEO of Star Vault, developing Mortal Online 2 and the OmniMesh networking product
- [Hilmar Veigar Pétursson](https://mmo-list.com/people/hilmar-veigar-petursson) — Executive; as of 2026-07-19: CEO of CCP Games
- [Hiromichi Tanaka](https://mmo-list.com/people/hiromichi-tanaka) — Producer/Designer
- [Holly Longdale](https://mmo-list.com/people/holly-longdale) — Producer/Executive; as of 2026-02-03: Executive producer & vice president of World of Warcraft at Blizzard
- [Hu Zhipeng](https://mmo-list.com/people/hu-zhipeng) — Producer/Executive; as of 2026-04-15: Executive Vice President of NetEase Group and head of the NetEase Leihuo Business Group
- [J. Todd Coleman](https://mmo-list.com/people/j-todd-coleman) — Designer/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: Co-founder of Portalis AI — working on conversational AI outside the games industry; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Jack Emmert](https://mmo-list.com/people/jack-emmert) — Designer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-01-27: CEO of Cryptic Studios (Star Trek Online, Champions Online, Neverwinter)
- [Jake Song](https://mmo-list.com/people/jake-song) — Designer/Programmer/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-22: Building Open MMORPG solo — an open-source browser MMO experiment treating AI agents and human players as equals, released July 2026; senior advisor at the Open Game Foundation; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [James Ohlen](https://mmo-list.com/people/james-ohlen) — Designer/Executive; as of 2025-12-17: Consulting, focused on tabletop gaming, after stepping down as Archetype Entertainment studio head in December 2025
- [Jeffrey Steefel](https://mmo-list.com/people/jeffrey-steefel) — Producer/Executive
- [Joel Bylos](https://mmo-list.com/people/joel-bylos) — Designer/Director; as of 2026-06-24: Creative director on Dune: Awakening at Funcom, leading its console launch and post-launch chapter roadmap
- [Joey Ziolkowski](https://mmo-list.com/people/joey-ziolkowski) — Director/Studio Founder
- [Johan Sjöberg](https://mmo-list.com/people/johan-sjoberg) — Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: CEO of Star Stable Entertainment
- [John Smedley](https://mmo-list.com/people/john-smedley) — Producer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-05-29: Founder & CEO of Distinct Possibility Studios — its open-world persistent shooter Reaper Actual entered Steam early access in May 2026; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Jongok Ahn](https://mmo-list.com/people/jongok-ahn) — Producer
- [Kee Zhang](https://mmo-list.com/people/kee-zhang) — Producer/Executive
- [Keum Kang-sun](https://mmo-list.com/people/keum-kang-sun) — Director; as of 2026-04-19: Director of Smilegate's new PC/console open-world RPG 'Project Orpheus'
- [Kim Dae-il](https://mmo-list.com/people/kim-dae-il) — Designer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: Chairman of Pearl Abyss; executive producer on Crimson Desert
- [Kim Hakkyu](https://mmo-list.com/people/kim-hakkyu) — Designer/Studio Founder; as of 2025-11-11: CEO of IMC Games, focused on new IPs and AI research applied to game development
- [Kim Taek-jin](https://mmo-list.com/people/kim-taek-jin) — Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: Co-CEO & chief creative officer of NCSOFT, leading game development and global expansion alongside co-CEO Park Byung-moo; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Lee Seung-chan](https://mmo-list.com/people/lee-seung-chan) — Designer/Programmer/Studio Founder
- [Luke Smith](https://mmo-list.com/people/luke-smith) — Director/Writer
- [Mark Jacobs](https://mmo-list.com/people/mark-jacobs) — Designer/Studio Founder; as of 2026-06-06: Founder & CEO of Unchained Entertainment — Camelot Unchained entered Steam early access in June 2026; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Mathew Kemp](https://mmo-list.com/people/mathew-kemp) — Producer
- [Matt Firor](https://mmo-list.com/people/matt-firor) — Producer/Studio Director; as of 2026-01-03: Independent — advising and investing in small game teams after leaving ZeniMax Online in July 2025, when Microsoft cancelled the studio's 'Blackbird' project; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Mike O'Brien](https://mmo-list.com/people/mike-obrien) — Designer/Programmer/Studio Founder
- [Naoki Yoshida](https://mmo-list.com/people/naoki-yoshida) — Producer/Director; as of 2026-07-19: Head of Creative Studio III at Square Enix; producer & director of Final Fantasy XIV; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Nicolas Cannasse](https://mmo-list.com/people/nicolas-cannasse) — Programmer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-05-07: CEO of Shiro Games, with Farever in Steam early access
- [Ragnar Tørnquist](https://mmo-list.com/people/ragnar-tornquist) — Designer/Writer/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: CEO and creative director of Red Thread Games in Oslo
- [Raph Koster](https://mmo-list.com/people/raph-koster) — Designer/Studio Founder/Author; as of 2026-06-03: Founder & CEO of Playable Worlds — Stars Reach launches into Steam early access in summer 2026; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Rebecca Ford](https://mmo-list.com/people/rebecca-ford) — Director; as of 2025-12-01: Creative director of Warframe at Digital Extremes
- [Richard Garriott](https://mmo-list.com/people/richard-garriott) — Designer/Studio Founder; as of 2026-06-20: Independent — publicly working to reclaim the Ultima copyrights from EA under US copyright-reversion law, with the window opening in 2027; MMOlist Hall of Fame
- [Rob Pardo](https://mmo-list.com/people/rob-pardo) — Designer/Executive; as of 2026-07-19: CEO of Bonfire Studios
- [Robin Henkys](https://mmo-list.com/people/robin-henkys) — Director/Executive; as of 2026-07-19: Stepped back from the Albion Online game director role in April 2025; continues in a background creative role at Sandbox Interactive
- [Rolf Jansson](https://mmo-list.com/people/rolf-jansson) — Designer/Programmer/Executive/Studio Founder
- [Scot Lane](https://mmo-list.com/people/scot-lane) — Director/Producer; as of 2026-07-19: In another role at Amazon Games after stepping back from New World in May 2025
- [Stephan Vogler](https://mmo-list.com/people/stephan-vogler) — Programmer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: Member of CipSoft's management team in Regensburg
- [Steven Sharif](https://mmo-list.com/people/steven-sharif) — Designer/Executive/Studio Founder; as of 2026-01-31: Resigned from Intrepid Studios on January 31, 2026 in protest of board decisions
- [Tyler Cloutier](https://mmo-list.com/people/tyler-cloutier) — Programmer/Studio Founder; as of 2026-07-19: Co-founder at Clockwork Labs, leading BitCraft Online (early access) and SpacetimeDB
- [Yongchan Jee](https://mmo-list.com/people/yongchan-jee) — Designer/Director
- [Yoon Myeong-jin](https://mmo-list.com/people/yoon-myeong-jin) — Director/Executive; as of 2026-07-19: CEO of Neople, overseeing Dungeon & Fighter live services and new titles
- [Yuya Kimura](https://mmo-list.com/people/yuya-kimura) — Producer

## Head-to-head comparisons

- [World of Warcraft vs Final Fantasy XIV](https://mmo-list.com/vs/world-of-warcraft-vs-final-fantasy-xiv)
- [World of Warcraft vs Guild Wars 2](https://mmo-list.com/vs/world-of-warcraft-vs-guild-wars-2)
- [World of Warcraft vs The Elder Scrolls Online](https://mmo-list.com/vs/world-of-warcraft-vs-elder-scrolls-online)
- [World of Warcraft vs World of Warcraft Classic](https://mmo-list.com/vs/world-of-warcraft-vs-wow-classic)
- [World of Warcraft vs RuneScape](https://mmo-list.com/vs/world-of-warcraft-vs-runescape)
- [Final Fantasy XIV vs Guild Wars 2](https://mmo-list.com/vs/final-fantasy-xiv-vs-guild-wars-2)
- [Final Fantasy XIV vs The Elder Scrolls Online](https://mmo-list.com/vs/final-fantasy-xiv-vs-elder-scrolls-online)
- [Final Fantasy XIV vs Lost Ark](https://mmo-list.com/vs/final-fantasy-xiv-vs-lost-ark)
- [Guild Wars 2 vs The Elder Scrolls Online](https://mmo-list.com/vs/guild-wars-2-vs-elder-scrolls-online)
- [Guild Wars 2 vs New World: Aeternum](https://mmo-list.com/vs/guild-wars-2-vs-new-world-aeternum)
- [The Elder Scrolls Online vs New World: Aeternum](https://mmo-list.com/vs/elder-scrolls-online-vs-new-world-aeternum)
- [Black Desert Online vs New World: Aeternum](https://mmo-list.com/vs/black-desert-online-vs-new-world-aeternum)
- [Black Desert Online vs Throne and Liberty](https://mmo-list.com/vs/black-desert-online-vs-throne-and-liberty)
- [Black Desert Online vs Albion Online](https://mmo-list.com/vs/black-desert-online-vs-albion-online)
- [Lost Ark vs Throne and Liberty](https://mmo-list.com/vs/lost-ark-vs-throne-and-liberty)
- [Throne and Liberty vs New World: Aeternum](https://mmo-list.com/vs/throne-and-liberty-vs-new-world-aeternum)
- [Old School RuneScape vs RuneScape](https://mmo-list.com/vs/old-school-runescape-vs-runescape)
- [Old School RuneScape vs World of Warcraft](https://mmo-list.com/vs/old-school-runescape-vs-world-of-warcraft)
- [Albion Online vs EVE Online](https://mmo-list.com/vs/albion-online-vs-eve-online)
- [Albion Online vs RuneScape](https://mmo-list.com/vs/albion-online-vs-runescape)
- [Star Wars: The Old Republic vs The Lord of the Rings Online](https://mmo-list.com/vs/star-wars-the-old-republic-vs-lord-of-the-rings-online)
- [Dune: Awakening vs New World: Aeternum](https://mmo-list.com/vs/dune-awakening-vs-new-world-aeternum)
- [Dune: Awakening vs Black Desert Online](https://mmo-list.com/vs/dune-awakening-vs-black-desert-online)
- [Palia vs Final Fantasy XIV](https://mmo-list.com/vs/palia-vs-final-fantasy-xiv)
- [MapleStory vs Mabinogi](https://mmo-list.com/vs/maplestory-vs-mabinogi)
- [Dofus vs Wakfu](https://mmo-list.com/vs/dofus-vs-wakfu)
- [EverQuest vs EverQuest II](https://mmo-list.com/vs/everquest-vs-everquest-ii)
- [World of Warcraft Classic vs Old School RuneScape](https://mmo-list.com/vs/wow-classic-vs-old-school-runescape)
- [EVE Online vs Star Trek Online](https://mmo-list.com/vs/eve-online-vs-star-trek-online)

## Shut-down and cancelled MMOs

Lifespans for every sunset MMO — the answer to "is X dead" / "what happened
to X". Full archive with details: https://mmo-list.com/archive

- Aika Online (2010–2021) — JoyImpact
- ArchLord (2006–2014) — NHN / Codemasters
- Asda Story (2008–2015) — MaxOn Soft
- Asheron's Call 2 (2002–2005) — Turbine
- Astellia (2019–2021) — Studio 8 / Barunson
- Auto Assault (2006–2007) — NetDevil / NCSoft
- Bless Online (2018–2019) — Neowiz
- Blue Protocol (Bandai Namco) (2023–2025) — Bandai Namco Online
- Chronicles of Elyria (announced 2020, cancelled) — Soulbound Studios
- City of Heroes (official) (2004–2012) — Cryptic / Paragon Studios
- Clone Wars Adventures (2010–2014) — SOE
- Club Penguin (2005–2017) — Disney
- Dark and Light (2006) (2006–2008) — NPCube
- Darkfall Online (2009–2012) — Aventurine
- Dragon's Prophet (2013–2020) — Runewaker / SOE
- Dual Universe (2022–2025) — Novaquark
- Dungeon Runners (2007–2010) — NCSoft
- Dungeon Striker (2013–2016) — Eyedentity
- Earth & Beyond (2002–2004) — Westwood / EA
- Earthrise (2011–2012) — Masthead Studios
- Elyon (2021–2022) — Bluehole / Krafton
- EverQuest Next (announced 2016, cancelled) — SOE / Daybreak
- EverQuest Online Adventures (2003–2012) — SOE
- Face of Mankind (2006–2015) — Duplex Systems
- Final Fantasy XI R (mobile) (announced 2021, cancelled) — Square Enix / Nexon
- Firefall (2014–2017) — Red 5 Studios
- Forsaken World (2011–2022) — Perfect World
- Free Realms (2009–2014) — SOE
- Fury (2007–2008) — Auran
- FusionFall (2009–2013) — Grigon / Cartoon Network
- Genfanad (2022–2024) — Rose-Tinted Games
- Glitch (2011–2012) — Tiny Speck
- Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising (2011–2012) — Heatwave Interactive
- Hellgate: London (2007–2009) — Flagship Studios
- Jade Dynasty (2009–2018) — Perfect World
- Landmark (2016–2017) — Daybreak
- LEGO Universe (2010–2012) — NetDevil / LEGO
- Mad World: Age of Darkness (2023–2024) — Jandisoft
- Marvel Heroes (2013–2017) — Gazillion
- Mortal Online (2010) (2010–2021) — Star Vault
- Motor City Online (2001–2003) — EA
- MU Legend (2017–2023) — Webzen
- Otherland (2015–2021) — DRAGO / Game Farm
- Peria Chronicles (announced 2019, cancelled) — Thingsoft / Nexon
- Perpetuum (2010–2018) — Avatar Creations
- Phantasy Star Online (2000) (2000–2010) — Sonic Team / SEGA
- Phantasy Star Universe (2006–2012) — Sonic Team / SEGA
- Pirates of the Caribbean Online (2007–2013) — Disney
- Project Copernicus (announced 2012, cancelled) — 38 Studios
- Revelation Online (2017–2024) — NetEase / My.Games
- Riders of Icarus (2016–2025) — WeMade / Valofe
- Rohan: Blood Feud (2008–2020) — YNK / Playwith
- Rubies of Eventide (2003–2009) — Mnemosyne
- RuneScape Classic (2001–2018) — Jagex
- Scarlet Blade (2013–2016) — Liveplex / Aeria
- Seed (2006–2006) — Runestone
- Shadowbane (2003–2009) — Wolfpack Studios / Ubisoft
- Skyforge (2015–2025) — Allods Team / My.Games
- Tabula Rasa (2007–2009) — Destination Games / NCSoft
- Tales of Pirates (2007–2016) — MOLI / IGG
- The Day Before (2023–2024) — Fntastic
- The Lord of the Rings MMO (Amazon) (announced 2026, cancelled) — Amazon Games Orange County
- The Matrix Online (2005–2009) — Monolith / SOE
- The Repopulation (2014–2023) — Above & Beyond / Idea Fabrik
- The Sims Online (2002–2008) — Maxis / EA
- The Wagadu Chronicles (2023–2024) — Twin Drums
- Titan (announced 2014, cancelled) — Blizzard
- TitanReach (announced 2022, cancelled) — Square Root Studios
- Toontown Online (official) (2003–2013) — Disney VR Studio
- Trickster Online (2003–2014) — Ntreev
- Turtle WoW (2018–2026) — Turtle WoW team (community)
- Twelve Sky / Twelve Sky 2 (2007–2016) — GigasSoft / Aeria
- Ultima Worlds Online: Origin (announced 2001, cancelled) — Origin / EA
- Ultima X: Odyssey (announced 2004, cancelled) — Origin / EA
- Vanguard: Saga of Heroes (2007–2014) — Sigil / SOE
- Voyage Century Online (2006–2023) — Snail Games / IGG
- Wander (2015–2017) — Wander MMO
- Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade (2016–2021) — Behaviour Interactive
- Wayfinder (2023–2024) — Airship Syndicate
- Wish (announced 2005, cancelled) — Mutable Realms
- Wizardry Online (2013–2014) — Gamepot / SOE
- Wonderland Online (2005–2019) — Chinese Gamer
- World of Darkness (announced 2014, cancelled) — CCP Games
- Worlds Adrift (2018–2019) — Bossa Studios
- Zero Online (2007–2014) — TQ Digital
- Neverwinter Nights (AOL) (1991–1997) — Stormfront Studios
- PlanetSide (2003–2016) — Sony Online Entertainment
- Crowfall (2021–2022) — ArtCraft Entertainment
- The Chronicles of Spellborn (2008–2010) — Spellborn International
- Jumpgate: The Reconstruction Initiative (2001–2012) — NetDevil
- Stargate Worlds (announced 2010, cancelled) — Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment
- Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online (announced 2012, cancelled) — Vigil Games
- RaiderZ (2012–2015) — MAIET Entertainment
- Gran Saga (2021–2025) — NPIXEL
- Chimeraland (2022–2024) — Pixmain / Level Infinite