Editor's ChoiceFree To PlayTower of Fantasy
MMORPGReleased
Tower of Fantasy runs on a real open world with zero loading screens between zones, blending anime-styled gacha character collecting with real-time co...
Similar to Blue Protocol: Star Resonance
If Star Resonance won you over with its lock-on-free action combat and solo-friendly pacing, Tower of Fantasy and Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis are worth a look — both build progression around dungeons and raid bosses rather than PvP, and keep spending limited to cosmetics.
This shortlist was built around three traits: dodge-and-combo combat with no target lock, an anime art direction for both world and characters, and a monetization model where money buys looks rather than power. Blade & Soul brings a stronger story and more theatrical combo chains, while TERA offers the same lock-free combat in a classic fantasy setting without the anime aesthetic.
Editor's ChoiceFree To Play
Editor's ChoiceFree To PlayPhantasy Star Online 2
MMORPGReleased
Fast, airborne action combat and a deep roster of weapon classes are the backbone of Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, SEGA's free-to-play open-fie...
Editor's ChoiceFree To PlayTERA
MMORPGClosed
TERA drops you into Arborea, a world built by two sleeping titans and torn apart by a war among twelve gods — one of the first MMORPGs to trade tab-ta...
Editor's ChoiceFree To PlayBlade & Soul
MMORPGReleased
Blade & Soul NEO brings NCSoft's wuxia martial-arts MMORPG back with remastered Unreal Engine 4 visuals, Infinite Windwalk traversal, and combat built...
RecommendedFree To PlayBlack Desert Online
MMORPGReleased
Black Desert Online's character creator is deep enough that players spend hours before ever touching combat, and the payoff is a fluid, chain-combo ac...
Buy To PlayAshes of Creation
MMORPGDevelopment frozen
Ashes of Creation was a crowdfunded fantasy MMORPG from Intrepid Studios built on a settlement system where player activity grew cities from wildernes...
Free To PlayKaros
MMORPGReleased
Azmara is a land teetering on conflict, its factions clashing over Fletta, the mystical energy source that fuels magic, weapons, and character growth ...
RIFT
MMORPGReleased
Rifts tear open across the sky at random, spilling elemental invaders into Telara and forcing nearby players to drop what they're doing and fight them...
Free To PlaySphere 3
MMORPGReleased
A fantasy MMORPG built on manual-aim combat and clan warfare, Sphere 3 puts twelve castles on the map and lets guilds fight for them with catapults, b...
Free To PlayOnce Human
MMORPGMMOFPSReleased
Capture anomalous creatures called Deviations, install them in your base to mine ore and cook your meals, then send them ahead to the next season when...
Buy To PlayFallout 76
MMOFPSMMORPGReleased
Fallout 76 is Bethesda's online Fallout, a persistent post-nuclear West Virginia that has grown across eight years of free updates into a wasteland sp...
Free To PlayWhere Winds Meet
MMORPGReleased
Pick a weapon, join a sect or steal your skills the hard way, and Where Winds Meet drops you into tenth-century China's jianghu as a wandering martial...