Editor's ChoiceFree To PlayAlbion Online
MMORPGReleased
Albion Online runs on "you are what you wear," gear rather than a fixed class defining every build across farming, crafting, and PvP. Sandbox Interact...
MMOs similar to EVE Online
EVE Online defines its corner of the genre along a few specific axes: one shared server for every player, an economy where nearly every item was built by another person, and territorial wars that can run for years. Games that feel similar usually inherit one or two of these traits, rarely all of them at once.
Look for a fully player-run market with no developer shop, meaningful stakes on death (full loot or a real ISK-equivalent cost), and an open world whose borders are held by other players rather than quest design. The sci-fi setting itself is the least important part of the comparison.
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Editor's ChoiceBuy To PlayElite Dangerous
MMORPGSimulatorsReleased
400 billion star systems, each one flyable without a loading screen — that scale is still Elite Dangerous's calling card more than a decade after laun...
Editor's ChoiceBuy To PlayStar Citizen
MMORPGCBT
Backed by more than a billion dollars from players since 2012, Star Citizen is the most heavily crowdfunded game ever made and still runs as an alpha....
Free To PlaySigma World Online
MMORPGCBT
Industry that poisons the ground it stands on, robots you program instead of command, and a particle collider you assemble by hand to fuel quantum jum...
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MMOFPSMMORPGReleased
Dune: Awakening drops you onto Arrakis in a timeline where Paul Atreides was never born and the Fremen have vanished without explanation. Extract wate...
RecommendedFree To PlayDarkfall Online
MMORPGReleased
Darkfall Online is the full-loot sandbox MMORPG that pushed open-world PvP further than almost anything else in the genre: six races, no classes, no c...
Free To PlayWurm Online
MMORPGReleased
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...
Free To PlayHaven & Hearth
MMORPGReleased
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...
Buy To PlayConan Exiles
MMORPGReleased
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,...
Free To PlayEVE Frontier
MMORPGEarly access
Civilization collapsed generations ago, and EVE Frontier hands survivors nothing but a ship, a signal from three black holes, and the very real job of...
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...
Free To PlayArcheAge
MMORPGReleased
Released by XL Games in 2013, ArcheAge built its reputation on sandbox freedom rarely matched since — housing, farming, shipbuilding, and open-ocean p...