Editor's ChoiceFree 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...
MMOs similar to Fallout 76
Fallout 76 puts you outside Vault 76 twenty-five years after the bombs, in a multiplayer version of West Virginia run by Bethesda. Its signature idea is the portable C.A.M.P. base you can drop almost anywhere, plus perk cards that replace fixed classes.
The picks below share three traits: scavenging and crafting loops, freeform base building on a shared map, and a relaxed live-service rhythm built around events and seasons rather than raid schedules.
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Editor's ChoiceBuy 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,...
Editor's ChoiceBuy To PlayDune: Awakening
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...
Editor's ChoiceFree 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...
Free To Play, Pay To PlayOld School RuneScape
MMORPGReleased
A legendary classless sandbox MMORPG delivering uncompromising progression, rich handcrafted narrative quests, and a fully player-driven economy. In t...
Free To PlayTree of Savior
MMORPGReleased
An atmospheric isometric MMORPG crafted by Ragnarok Online visionary Hakkyu Kim, steeped in Lithuanian mythology and rendered in a distinctive fairyta...
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...
Buy To PlayBitCraft Online
MMORPGEarly access
BitCraft Online drops you into a single, shared world shaped entirely by its players — terraform the land, master one of twelve interdependent profess...
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...
Free To PlayBlue Protocol: Star Resonance
MMORPGReleased
The original Blue Protocol never made it past Japan before Bandai Namco shut it down — Blue Protocol: Star Resonance carries its world forward anyway,...
Buy To PlayHelldivers 2
MMOFPSReleased
A critically acclaimed third-person squad-based tactical shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, ...