https://massivelyop.com MMORPG news and opinions Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-sneak-out-manasoul-rise-of-mythos-aka-kings-call/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-sneak-out-manasoul-rise-of-mythos-aka-kings-call/#respond Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=478258 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you’ve probably never heard of (but we’ll be impressed if you have). Sneak Out Sneak Out is for some reason listed as similar to Terraria on Steam. It’s not like Terraria at all. It’s much more like a game of Among Us mashed together with a wacky game […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-sneak-out-manasoul-rise-of-mythos-aka-kings-call/feed/ 0 https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/02/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-under-a-rock-farworld-pioneers-cyborg-immortal/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/02/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-under-a-rock-farworld-pioneers-cyborg-immortal/#comments Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=477909 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you’ve probably never heard of (but if you have, awesome!). Under a Rock If you’re not living under a rock, well, you should be… Gameforge’s Under a Rock, that is. It’s a multiplayer survival title from Nordic Trolls, published under the Gameforge banner and sporting online co-op. It’s […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/02/02/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-under-a-rock-farworld-pioneers-cyborg-immortal/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/19/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-wildmender-kaetram-and-kingdom-the-blood/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/19/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-wildmender-kaetram-and-kingdom-the-blood/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=474462 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! This time around we’re checking out an intriguing-looking survival title, another 2-D browser MMORPG (seriously these things are like grass), and a co-op title based off of a Korean TV series. It’s a mish-mash, in other words, so […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/19/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-wildmender-kaetram-and-kingdom-the-blood/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-flatty-starbreak-discovery-freelancer/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-flatty-starbreak-discovery-freelancer/#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=473455 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! This time around, we’re pretty much going into space, but first there’s another 2-D sprite MMO to cover. Yes, another one. Please don’t flee; we’re going to space soon. Flatty: Many of this one’s bullet points are similar […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-flatty-starbreak-discovery-freelancer/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/11/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-trimurti-online-karos-classic-quest-masters-realm/ https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/11/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-trimurti-online-karos-classic-quest-masters-realm/#comments Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=473642 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! First off, we’ll point out that this edition doesn’t have any 2-D sprite sandboxes on offer; what it does have are some follow-ups to previously reported-on titles and a game that’s so classic yet obscure that it probably […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2024/01/11/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-trimurti-online-karos-classic-quest-masters-realm/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/29/player-vs-developer-medium-fantasy-mmo-astaria-pops-back-up-as-arvita/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/29/player-vs-developer-medium-fantasy-mmo-astaria-pops-back-up-as-arvita/#comments Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=473102 We would not blame you in the least if you had no recollection of Astaria. This was a suspicious project that was supposed to go into early access back in 2020 but kind of faded off the MMO scene entirely around that time. But as we all know, the good MMOs never seem to come […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/29/player-vs-developer-medium-fantasy-mmo-astaria-pops-back-up-as-arvita/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/08/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-aq2-expanse-project-baxter-tombstone/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/08/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-aq2-expanse-project-baxter-tombstone/#comments Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:00:36 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=471021 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! In today’s edition, we’ve got an indie spaceship sandbox, a co-op Dungeons & Dragons title with a weird codename, and a self-described futuristic western MMO. Let’s take a look! AQ2: Expanse – If you’re looking to get into […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/12/08/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-aq2-expanse-project-baxter-tombstone/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/29/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-idlerune-dont-die-in-the-west-ikariam/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/29/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-idlerune-dont-die-in-the-west-ikariam/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=469379 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! This time I’m the one steering this tour boat through the rapids of undiscovered MMO gaming – the Lewis to Bree’s Clark. I sort of assume she’s the Clark. Clark was the smarter one, right? IdleRune – This […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/29/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-idlerune-dont-die-in-the-west-ikariam/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/14/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-astral-ascent-stalcraft-high-energy-heroes/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/14/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-astral-ascent-stalcraft-high-energy-heroes/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2023 01:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=462899 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! Astral Ascent – The team at France-based Hibernian Workshop have officially launched this cutesy roguelike following more than a year of early access; on Steam, it’s labeled as a shared/splitscreen co-op title, and it’s live on PlayStation and […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/14/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-astral-ascent-stalcraft-high-energy-heroes/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/23/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-wild-card-football-bish-bash-bots-silica-zombie-within/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/23/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-wild-card-football-bish-bash-bots-silica-zombie-within/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=463011 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! This edition is mostly smaller-scale multiplayer, but maybe something will pique our MMO gamers’ interest. Zombie Within – Snail Games announced this new “multiplayer supernatural social deduction game” just this past week and just in time for Halloween. […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/23/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-wild-card-football-bish-bash-bots-silica-zombie-within/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/20/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-mortal-kombat-onslaught-dc-dual-force-definya-project-mist/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/20/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-mortal-kombat-onslaught-dc-dual-force-definya-project-mist/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:00:53 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=462897 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! Mortal Kombat Onslaught: This Warner Bros. multiplayer mobile title is billed as “real-time, collection role-playing game (cRPG) that features team-based kombat set in the legendary Mortal Kombat universe,” and it’s live this week on Android and iOS. The […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/10/20/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-mortal-kombat-onslaught-dc-dual-force-definya-project-mist/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/09/15/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-hawked-glassbreakers-jam-cloud-95-world-shards/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=456831 Welcome back to another quick run-down of some MMOs and multiplayer titles you’ve probably never heard of. If you have, then you get exactly one piece of Halloween candy. Yes, Halloween started September 1st. I don’t make the rules. Hawked – Hawked is MY.GAMES’ new F2P PvPvE extraction shooter that isn’t shy at all about its […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/25/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-starship-traders-arena-breakout-x8-jumanji-the-grey-war/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/25/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-starship-traders-arena-breakout-x8-jumanji-the-grey-war/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:00:14 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=454837 Welcome back to another rundown of some MMOs and other multiplayer titles you’ve probably never heard of! Starship Traders – MMO Fallout put this one back on our radar; it’s a super-indie sci-fi sandbox MMO that clearly borrows heavily from the likes of EVE Online, complete with its cutthroat PvP. Arena Breakout – Tencent’s MoreFun […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/25/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-starship-traders-arena-breakout-x8-jumanji-the-grey-war/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/24/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-trinitys-once-human-wild-country-second-wave-cyborg-immortal/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=454759 Welcome back to another quick trip through news and announcement for some MMOs and other multiplayer titles you’ve probably never heard of! TrinityS – This MMO-inspired co-op RPG first hit our radar last year when it entered early access on PC, and now, it’s heading to PS4 and PS5 starting October 20th. “All the boss […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/10/2003s-endless-online-returns-in-2023-with-a-new-official-server-run-by-its-original-developer/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/10/2003s-endless-online-returns-in-2023-with-a-new-official-server-run-by-its-original-developer/#comments Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=447350 There were plenty of pixel graphic isometric MMORPGs running around in the 2000’s – Furcadia and Habbo Hotel immediately spring to mind – but there was also a perhaps lesser-known one called Endless Online, a modern fantasy-styled title from developer Vult-R that ran between 2003 and 2016. The game appears to have been shut down […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/10/2003s-endless-online-returns-in-2023-with-a-new-official-server-run-by-its-original-developer/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2023/07/05/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-the-hopebringer-unyha-and-lootquest/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=445751 Welcome back to another quick look at some MMORPGs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of. The Hopebringer – Let’s kick it off with a new-to-us game: It’s a top-down UE5 RPG from developer D.N.S.S. that offers both singleplayer and online co-op multiplayer with proc-gen gameplay. It’s already in early access, and it’s just […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/21/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-solarpunk-hyperspace-and-dawnlands/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/21/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-solarpunk-hyperspace-and-dawnlands/#comments Wed, 21 Jun 2023 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=445763 Welcome back to another run-through of some new-to-us MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles that we (and presumably you) have never heard of. If you have, just play along! Solarpunk – Solarpunk is another fresh multiplayer title on our radar. Cyberwave and Rokaplay are upfront that this one is a survival game, but it’s on the cutesy […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/06/21/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-solarpunk-hyperspace-and-dawnlands/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/24/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-sengoku-yokai-kakele-online-and-void-crew/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/24/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-sengoku-yokai-kakele-online-and-void-crew/#comments Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=431879 Welcome back to another roundup of a few MMOs and multiplayer titles we and possibly you had never heard of… before now! Sengoku: Yōkai – This game first caught my eye on Reddit, and technically it’s more of a MUD than an MMO, though its solo developer is calling it a browser text-based MMORPG that […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/24/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-sengoku-yokai-kakele-online-and-void-crew/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/21/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-quest-masters-realm-cheats-pu-and-verses-of-enchantment/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/21/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-quest-masters-realm-cheats-pu-and-verses-of-enchantment/#comments Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=431853 Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMOs and multiplayer titles you’ve very likely never heard of – or at least haven’t heard much about! Quest Master’s Realm – Blue Lightning Software’s extremely ambitious, extremely indie “realtime action-based MMORPG world of fantasy adventure” hit Steam for wishlisting and test signups earlier this year with […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/21/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-quest-masters-realm-cheats-pu-and-verses-of-enchantment/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/10/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-swordsman-x-survival-legend-of-lunia-and-x8/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/10/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-swordsman-x-survival-legend-of-lunia-and-x8/#comments Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=429337 Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s random and recurring roundup of a few MMOs you’ve never heard of! Maybe you’ve heard of some of them. You’re pretty smart. Swordsman X Survival – A year ago, Yooreka Studio and CubeGame announced a reboot of the Swordsman franchise in the form of Swordsman X: Survival, a “martial art open […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/10/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-swordsman-x-survival-legend-of-lunia-and-x8/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/05/perfect-ten-ten-quirky-and-interesting-mmos-worth-trying/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/05/perfect-ten-ten-quirky-and-interesting-mmos-worth-trying/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=406196 Quite often while I’m writing columns for Massively OP, the catalyst behind a given topic is what interests me right then — and, I figure, if it has my attention, perhaps it’s something others think about as well. And something I think about every so often are MMORPGs off the beaten path. You know, the […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/05/perfect-ten-ten-quirky-and-interesting-mmos-worth-trying/feed/ 10 https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/18/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-second-extinction-state-of-survival-and-path-of-titans/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/18/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-second-extinction-state-of-survival-and-path-of-titans/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=404140 Welcome to a quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent titles that have been hanging out in our newsroom waiting for someone to write about them for waaaaay too long. Survivalboxes, shooters, dinosaurs – we’ve got a lil bit of everything. Second Extinction: Swedish studio Systemic Reaction announced that it’s pushing Second Extinction out of […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/18/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-second-extinction-state-of-survival-and-path-of-titans/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2022/02/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-eterspire-dead-event-and-archewood/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/02/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-eterspire-dead-event-and-archewood/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=373260 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you’ve (probably) never heard of before. And if you’ve heard of them, awesome – here’s what they’re up to! Eterspire – Eterspire – and yes, that’s spelled right – is a cutesy free-to-play browser-based MMORPG funded exclusively through Patreon. “Explore an open-world comprised of different maps filled with […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/02/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-eterspire-dead-event-and-archewood/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2021/06/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-elethor-astonia-guardians-of-cloudia-lands-of-kehliel/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 21:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=338970 Let’s take a peek through some MMOs you’ve never heard of or have totally forgotten about. The tinier and more obscure, the better, we say! Astonia MMO Fallout put Astonia back on our radar, as we hadn’t mentioned it since April of last year. It was originally launched in 1998 and went through several iterations […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/12/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-rise-carth-hunternet-starfighter-world-of-kung-fu-heroes-evolved-arelot-kingdom-and-project-eve/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/12/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-rise-carth-hunternet-starfighter-world-of-kung-fu-heroes-evolved-arelot-kingdom-and-project-eve/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=312537 Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of. Of course, YOU have heard of them, because you are a supremely intelligent artificial intelligence network on the verge of world domination, but consider that the meatbags in realspace might be ignorant of these titles. Let’s change that. […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/12/04/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-rise-carth-hunternet-starfighter-world-of-kung-fu-heroes-evolved-arelot-kingdom-and-project-eve/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2020/11/27/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-4story-wing-of-misadventure-legendarium-online-apsis-online-twokinds/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/11/27/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-4story-wing-of-misadventure-legendarium-online-apsis-online-twokinds/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:00:54 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=312171 Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of. Please, by all means, go down into the comments and tell us that this title is fake news because actually you have heard of one of these. Be that guy! Everyone loves that guy! 4Story: Wow, remember Papaya […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/11/27/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-4story-wing-of-misadventure-legendarium-online-apsis-online-twokinds/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2020/09/20/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-litebringer-samutale-icarusm-stellar-warfare-primordials-of-amyrion-a3-raid-shadow-legends-second-extinction/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/09/20/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-litebringer-samutale-icarusm-stellar-warfare-primordials-of-amyrion-a3-raid-shadow-legends-second-extinction/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=301168 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve probably never heard of (or have entirely forgotten about). LiteBringer: Tibia fans who aren’t opposed to BitCoin titles might want to take a peek at LiteBringer, a CipSoft MMO with a Tibia-development pedigree. This online RPG’s built with an “unapologetic” (their word) use of […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/09/20/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-litebringer-samutale-icarusm-stellar-warfare-primordials-of-amyrion-a3-raid-shadow-legends-second-extinction/feed/ 15 https://massivelyop.com/2020/09/14/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-age-of-ascent-little-sim-world-arcane-showdown-riders-republic/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=300569 It’s tiny titles time, friends! One of the best parts about working with (and before then, reading) MOP is the fact that we all get peeks at some of the smaller, lesser-known, or under-the-radar MMOs and multiplayer games that are out there. In other words: the MMOs you’ve never heard of. Let’s get to it! […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/08/08/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-helbreath-luna-m-tower-of-fantasy-and-sea-of-dawn/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/08/08/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-helbreath-luna-m-tower-of-fantasy-and-sea-of-dawn/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=294995 Think you’ve played every MMO that’s out there? There are more games, Horatio, than your mind could even conceive. And that’s why we have this sporadic column to highlight news and videos from the lesser-known online games. We’ll kick it off today with Helbreath Olympia, which bills itself as “an old-school medieval fantasy MMORPG with […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/08/08/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-helbreath-luna-m-tower-of-fantasy-and-sea-of-dawn/feed/ 13 https://massivelyop.com/2020/07/15/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-war-nomad-lifeblast-rise-in-time/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=291334 Care for another round of MMOs you’ve likely never heard of? Sure you are. You’ve got nothing else going on until a certain shadowy land expansion hits, right? Right. Let’s get started. We first begin with War Nomad a heavily in-development MMO that’s described by the game’s creator as a “small & buggy planet-based space […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/07/06/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-deadside-the-isle-minions-of-elden-dekaron-m-ragnarok-origin-titan-reach/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/07/06/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-deadside-the-isle-minions-of-elden-dekaron-m-ragnarok-origin-titan-reach/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2020 19:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=289977 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! We’ll start with Deadside, which is definitely in the adjacent bin, as it’s billed as a “hardcore multiplayer shooter with survival elements.” Rawr, get this game a cold Mountain Dew while it jumps off cliffs! Developer Bad Pixel pushed […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/07/06/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-deadside-the-isle-minions-of-elden-dekaron-m-ragnarok-origin-titan-reach/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2020/06/13/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-past-fate-damascus-rise-in-time-and-infinite-fleet/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/06/13/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-past-fate-damascus-rise-in-time-and-infinite-fleet/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=285152 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs (and MMO-adjacent titles) you’ve never heard of! Remember Past Fate? It made it into this roundup last year when it was prepping a Kickstarter, but that Kickstarter was ultimately canceled and the game went into its first open alpha back in February. Now it’s pushing toward its […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/06/13/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-past-fate-damascus-rise-in-time-and-infinite-fleet/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2020/05/25/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-the-hammers-end/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/05/25/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-the-hammers-end/#comments Mon, 25 May 2020 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=283038 When you’re trawling the internet for a fresh MMORPG experience that is quite far off the beaten path, you can’t get much more lost in the weeds (and the woods) than with The Hammer’s End. Billed as “an open-world 3-D MMORPG with a PvE foundation” that offers endgame progression “that provides years of character development,” […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/05/25/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-the-hammers-end/feed/ 8 https://massivelyop.com/2020/04/15/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-red-stone-euotopia-ogre-island-stendhal-and-astonia/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/04/15/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-red-stone-euotopia-ogre-island-stendhal-and-astonia/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=276553 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of — or have totally forgotten about until now! If you’re bored of the same-old, same-old, why not give one of these more obscure titles a try? We’ll start today with Red Stone, a game that boasts a whole lot of content […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/04/15/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-red-stone-euotopia-ogre-island-stendhal-and-astonia/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2020/03/19/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-avorion-naica-pocket-mortys-mighty-party-neopets-uncharted-waters-online-and-wolf-team/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/03/19/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-avorion-naica-pocket-mortys-mighty-party-neopets-uncharted-waters-online-and-wolf-team/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=273528 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of — or have totally forgotten about until now! We’ll start today with Avorion, a “procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks.” So, space LEGOs. We can get behind that. Avorion […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/03/19/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-avorion-naica-pocket-mortys-mighty-party-neopets-uncharted-waters-online-and-wolf-team/feed/ 8 https://massivelyop.com/2020/01/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-agonia-lands-decentraland-fable-valley-bloodstone-online-hunters-arena-legends/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/01/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-agonia-lands-decentraland-fable-valley-bloodstone-online-hunters-arena-legends/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=263901 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of – or have totally forgotten about until now! First up is Agonia Lands, a game we heard about through a now-deleted Reddit thread. It’s a browser MMO with a focus on sandboxy survival adventure, but it’s also a newish title […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/01/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-agonia-lands-decentraland-fable-valley-bloodstone-online-hunters-arena-legends/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2020/01/03/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-asteidus-hordes-voidspace-and-bloodstone/ https://massivelyop.com/2020/01/03/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-asteidus-hordes-voidspace-and-bloodstone/#comments Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=261550 Think you’ve played it all in 2019? That kind of hubris means that it is time for another tour of MMOs you’ve never heard of! We’ll kick off today’s foursome with Asteidus, a fantasy game “which puts focus on story driven quests and a world of magical landscapes, rich with unique history and mythology.” PvP […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2020/01/03/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-asteidus-hordes-voidspace-and-bloodstone/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2019/12/07/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-past-fate-rulers-of-the-sea-legend-of-mir-eternal-dragon-raja-fantasy-earth-genesis/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/12/07/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-past-fate-rulers-of-the-sea-legend-of-mir-eternal-dragon-raja-fantasy-earth-genesis/#comments Sat, 07 Dec 2019 21:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=258560 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of – or have totally forgotten about until now! First up: Past Fate, which we learned about thanks to the MMORPG subreddit. This open-world MMO launched a $15,000 Kickstarter Sunday: “Past Fate is an open world MMORPG where the players freedom […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/12/07/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-past-fate-rulers-of-the-sea-legend-of-mir-eternal-dragon-raja-fantasy-earth-genesis/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2019/09/22/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-mini-life-naica-and-medievalands/ Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=244091 It’s time for another roundup of smaller or more obscure MMOs that you might not have noticed! We’ll kick off today with a pixel art title that’s tickling our retro sensibilities: Naïca. Billing itself as a 2-D MMORPG, Naïca offers a full assortment of features including PvE quests, dungeons, PvP, five races, “adaptive” classes, and […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/29/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-perfect-world-mobile-virtueverse-eventyr-pixie-hollow-and-reign-of-guilds/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/29/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-perfect-world-mobile-virtueverse-eventyr-pixie-hollow-and-reign-of-guilds/#comments Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:00:43 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=235752 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!). Up first: Perfect World Mobile. Remember when it was announced way back in 2018? And then it rolled out in China? Now it’s coming westward too. As reported by MMO Culture, the […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/29/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-perfect-world-mobile-virtueverse-eventyr-pixie-hollow-and-reign-of-guilds/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/16/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-decentaland-monster-me-grand-fantasia/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/16/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-decentaland-monster-me-grand-fantasia/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2019 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=233727 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!). Up first: Decentraland, which is new even to me, likely because it’s a cross between Second Life, Minecraft, and all the new crypocurrency-driven games popping up the last year or two. It’s […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/16/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-decentaland-monster-me-grand-fantasia/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/07/secondhand-lands-is-yet-another-weird-and-wonderful-mmo-youve-never-heard-of/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/07/secondhand-lands-is-yet-another-weird-and-wonderful-mmo-youve-never-heard-of/#comments Sun, 07 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=232482 One of my favorite things about the MMORPG genre is that there are so many titles out there that there’s always something that even someone who writes about these games as a full-time job has never heard of, or at least has entirely forgotten. Case in point: Secondhand Lands. MMO blogger Bhagpuss recently pointed it […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/07/secondhand-lands-is-yet-another-weird-and-wonderful-mmo-youve-never-heard-of/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/16/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-world-of-dragon-nest-echo-of-soul-red-and-dawn-of-isles/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/16/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-world-of-dragon-nest-echo-of-soul-red-and-dawn-of-isles/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2019 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=228939 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!). First up: World of Dragon Nest. MMO Culture reports that Nexon’s Thai branch is working with Eyedentity Games’ Actozsoft to publish the game in the region. I had forgotten this game existed; […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/16/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-world-of-dragon-nest-echo-of-soul-red-and-dawn-of-isles/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/05/a-gloriously-odd-paintball-mmo-from-the-1990s-has-returned/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/05/a-gloriously-odd-paintball-mmo-from-the-1990s-has-returned/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2019 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=227781 Do you ever find yourself looking at modern MMOs in disgust, finding their graphics to be too garish and ostentatious? Do you pine for a simpler era where all the controls you really need were the left and right mouse buttons? Then, my friend, welcome home to Paintball Net. Created in 1996 by two amateur […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/05/a-gloriously-odd-paintball-mmo-from-the-1990s-has-returned/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/02/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-freestyle-2-world-of-kings-dragon-raja-2-ragnarok-masters-and-breviks-next-big-thing/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/02/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-freestyle-2-world-of-kings-dragon-raja-2-ragnarok-masters-and-breviks-next-big-thing/#comments Sun, 02 Jun 2019 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=227476 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!). First up: Sportsball! We seldom get to cover sports MMOs, given how few of them there are, and I fully admit I’d forgotten all about Freestyle 2, which developer Joycity calls a […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/02/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-freestyle-2-world-of-kings-dragon-raja-2-ragnarok-masters-and-breviks-next-big-thing/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2019/05/18/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-dark-domain-habbo-hotel-project-eternal-stein-world-zezenia/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/05/18/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-dark-domain-habbo-hotel-project-eternal-stein-world-zezenia/#comments Sat, 18 May 2019 20:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=225115 Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve never heard of (or have totally forgotten about!). We’ve got a few to run down here. First, there’s Dark Domain, a new “dark fantasy mobile MMORPG” that hit Android this month. Developer Eyougame says the game boasts guilds, a marriage system, multiple classes, […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/05/18/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-dark-domain-habbo-hotel-project-eternal-stein-world-zezenia/feed/ 22 https://massivelyop.com/2019/05/05/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-mordhau-dransik-rebirth-aberoth-star-sonata-and-kicks-online/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/05/05/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-mordhau-dransik-rebirth-aberoth-star-sonata-and-kicks-online/#comments Sun, 05 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=222630 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent online multiplayer games you’ve probably never heard of – or have totally forgotten about. Up first: Mordhau, which officially launched on Steam this week. Billed as a “multiplayer medieval slasher” with “visceral and gory combat,” it’s promising war modes and battle royale skirmishes up to 64 […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/05/05/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-mordhau-dransik-rebirth-aberoth-star-sonata-and-kicks-online/feed/ 15 https://massivelyop.com/2019/04/13/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-tera-origin-astaria-nostale-and-veloren/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/04/13/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-tera-origin-astaria-nostale-and-veloren/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=219377 Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMOs and other online games you’ve (probably) never heard of! Let’s kick off our roundup with something for Japan that we might never see (but wouldn’t it be cool if we did): TERA Origin. Netmarble has apparently acquired the rights to create a TERA-franchise mobile MMORPG, not just a […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/04/13/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-tera-origin-astaria-nostale-and-veloren/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-astroflux-star-sonata-and-mankind-reborn/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-astroflux-star-sonata-and-mankind-reborn/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=214843 Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMOs and other online games you’ve (probably) never heard of. Astroflux is an interesting one that came across our desk this week. It appears to be a free-to-play Steam port of a browser MMO, with retro sci-fi shooter graphics – developer Fula Fisken calls them “cozy arcade graphics […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/17/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-astroflux-star-sonata-and-mankind-reborn/feed/ 15 https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/10/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-exocraft-dk-online-lord-of-chains-and-defend-the-night/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/10/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-exocraft-dk-online-lord-of-chains-and-defend-the-night/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2019 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=213555 Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and other online games you’ve (probably) never heard of (or have totally forgotten about!). Exocraft caught my attention because graphics are so dang glowy and colorful. Developer GoldFire Studios is calling it a “massively multiplayer action strategy” title, and the idea is that you’re running a space mining […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/03/10/mmos-youve-never-heard-of-exocraft-dk-online-lord-of-chains-and-defend-the-night/feed/ 10