Pay To Play, Buy To PlayFinal Fantasy XIV
MMORPGReleased
Final Fantasy XIV treats its MMO story like a mainline Final Fantasy game rather than an afterthought, letting one character master every job in the g...
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.
Pay To Play, Buy To Play
Buy To PlayARK: Survival Evolved
MMORPGReleased
Released by Studio Wildcard in 2017, ARK: Survival Evolved puts players on a prehistoric island where taming, breeding, and riding over a hundred dino...
Free To PlayThe Elder Scrolls Online
MMORPGReleased
The Elder Scrolls Online invites you into a Tamriel a thousand years before Skyrim — a vast, level-scaled world spanning Morrowind to Summerset, packe...
Buy To PlaySpiritVale
MMORPGEarly access
SpiritVale is a class-based action MMORPG from Australian indie studio Baikun Interactive, set in the fractured world of Nevaris. Choose from seven cl...
Free To PlayMetin2
MMORPGReleased
Metin2 is a free-to-play action MMORPG set in a fractured empire where three rival kingdoms fight over land corrupted by falling stones. Choose from f...
Guild Wars 3
MMORPGAnnounced
Guild Wars 3 takes the series back to ancient Orr, a frontier of nature spirits and rival guilds a thousand years before the Tyria players know. Annou...
Free To PlayDungeons Dragons Online
MMORPGReleased
Dungeons & Dragons Online turns the D&D 3.5 tabletop ruleset into an MMO built almost entirely from instanced dungeons, complete with Dungeon Master n...
Free To PlayGenshin Impact
MMORPGReleased
Genshin Impact is HoYoverse's open-world action RPG, built around a connected multi-region map, elemental-reaction combat, and a free-to-play story th...
Free To PlayRaid: Shadow Legends
MMORPGReleased
Nine hundred-plus Champions, fifteen warring Factions, and a gear system deep enough to keep min-maxers busy for years — that's Raid: Shadow Legends. ...
Free To PlayR2 Online: Reign of Revolution
MMORPGClosed
R2 Online: Reign of Revolution sets its fantasy world in the middle of a permanent guild war, with PvP active everywhere outside the game's handful of...
Buy To PlayLast Epoch
MMORPGReleased
Pick a class, shift between timelines, and chase down the corrupted future of Eterra — Last Epoch built its identity on deep, flexible build crafting ...
Buy To PlayThe Quinfall
MMORPGReleased
The Quinfall exited Early Access and launched its 1.0 version on February 6, 2026, and developer Vawraek Technology has kept up an unusually aggressiv...