MMOs similar to Where Winds Meet

If Where Winds Meet hooked you through its wuxia combat and setting, start with Sword of Justice — NetEase's other open-world wuxia MMORPG, which went global just a week earlier and runs on the same honest free-to-play principles. Age of Wushu is worth a look for genre history: a smaller-budget but genuinely influential wuxia MMORPG that the "steal your skills" idea traces back to.

If it's the combat feel you're chasing more than the setting, try Naraka: Bladepoint — another NetEase wuxia title with the same grappling hook and parry rhythm, wrapped in a battle royale instead of an MMO — or Wuthering Waves, whose dodge-and-parry action system feels similarly kinetic in a gacha format with no MMO layer at all. Black Desert Online is the pick for players chasing the same density of systems outside combat — crafting, economy, character customization — in a Western fantasy setting instead of an Eastern one.