Once Human
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...

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.
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...
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,...
Dune: Awakening drops you onto Arrakis in a timeline where Paul Atreides was never born and the Fremen have vanished without explanation. Extract wate...
The Elder Scrolls Online invites you into a Tamriel a thousand years before Skyrim — a vast, level-scaled world spanning Morrowind to Summerset, packe...
BitCraft Online drops you into a single, shared world shaped entirely by its players — terraform the land, master one of twelve interdependent profess...
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...
Ashes of Creation was a crowdfunded fantasy MMORPG from Intrepid Studios built on a settlement system where player activity grew cities from wildernes...
Ultima Online launched in 1997, predates the term "MMORPG" itself, and is still adding new content today, currently under Broadsword Online Games, who...
Azmara is a land teetering on conflict, its factions clashing over Fletta, the mystical energy source that fuels magic, weapons, and character growth ...
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...
Hytale was canceled in June 2025 after Riot Games shut down developer Hypixel Studios, ending a ten-year project that had built one of gaming's bigges...