Buy To PlayHytale
MMORPGReleased
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...
Similar to Royal Quest
Royal Quest is an isometric MMORPG from Katauri Interactive where fantasy sits next to steam-powered tech, character power comes from monster cards and upgraded gear, and castle sieges sit at the top of the progression ladder.
The games below share that combination: an overhead camera, tab-target combat, progression built around risky item upgrades, and guilds fighting over territory and the income it brings. Some match the look and pace, others match the endgame.
Buy To Play
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...
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...
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...
Buy To PlayFallout 76
MMOFPSMMORPGReleased
Fallout 76 is Bethesda's online Fallout, a persistent post-nuclear West Virginia that has grown across eight years of free updates into a wasteland sp...
Project Ghost
MMORPGClosed
Project Ghost was an in-development MMORPG from Fantastic Pixel Castle, the studio founded by former World of Warcraft designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" St...
Free To PlayArcane Afterfall
MMORPGReleased
Arcane Afterfall drops you into a fantasy world stripped of its magic overnight, where humans, elves, and demons scramble to rebuild what a mysterious...
Free To PlayBrighter Shores
MMORPGEarly access
Brighter Shores is a free-to-play episodic MMORPG from Fen Research, the studio founded by RuneScape co-creator Andrew Gower, built on a custom engine...
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 PlayMapleStory
MMORPGReleased
MapleStory is a free-to-play 2D side-scrolling MMORPG from Nexon that has run continuously since 2003, now home to more than 260 million registered ac...
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. ...
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...