Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online has been running since 2002, and the card system it introduced — socketing monster drops into weapons and armor — is still one of the ...

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.
Ragnarok Online has been running since 2002, and the card system it introduced — socketing monster drops into weapons and armor — is still one of the ...
Five great houses are locked in a struggle for land, power, and wealth in Bellatores, a classless medieval fantasy sandbox MMORPG from South Korean de...
Aden's castles never stay in the same hands for long, and Lineage II has built an entire twenty-three-year game around the fight to take and hold them...
Pick a hillside, and Wurm Online lets you flatten it, tunnel through it or pave a road across it — permanently, on a map where every structure was bui...
Haven & Hearth is a sandbox MMORPG of foraging, crafting and settlement-building in a world drawn from Slavic and Germanic myth, made by two Swedish d...
Conan Exiles is an open-world survival sandbox set in the Exiled Lands of Robert E. Howard's Hyboria, where players raise fortresses from bare desert,...
Soulbound: Online is a pixel-art action MMO where fast bullet-heaven dungeon runs sit alongside a peaceful overworld of mining, fishing, cooking and c...
DK Online is a classic Korean MMORPG built around weekly castle sieges, guild warfare and a transformation system with more than a hundred collectible...
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox set in a fictionalised ancient East Asia, where survival crafting, NPC troops and horse warfare all feed ...
Summoners War: Sky Arena is a cross-platform monster-collector RPG built around turn-based strategy, where players assemble squads from thousands of c...
No holy trinity, no static quest hubs, and no subscription — Guild Wars 2 built its identity on dynamic events that reshape entire zones and combat th...
Secret World Legends drops players into a modern world secretly overrun by ancient myths, conspiracies, and monsters, playable as one of three shadowy...