Faction War MMOs

Pick a side, because in these games there's no neutral ground. Faction war MMOs split the player base into two or three opposing sides — locked in in long-running, large-scale conflict over territory, resources, or straightforward supremacy. Unlike a guild-versus-guild siege, the fight here is baked into the game's core identity: your faction choice shapes who you can group with, who you can attack on sight, and which battles actually matter to the server as a whole. It's PvP with a story and a side to belong to, not just a scoreboard. This tag covers MMOs built around faction warfare, from classic three-faction realm conflicts to modern titles building their entire endgame around territorial faction control.

Found 26 games
Aion ClassicFree To Play

Aion Classic

MMORPGReleased

Aion Classic is a permanent legacy server for NCSoft's Aion, rebuilding the fantasy MMORPG's original 2009 launch of winged combat and open faction wa...

5
1 rating
Dune: AwakeningBuy To Play

Dune: 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...

5
1 rating
Once HumanFree To Play

Once 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...

5
1 rating
Zeus: God of PrideFree To Play

Zeus: God of Pride

MMORPGReleased

AI-controlled duplicates that fight in your place, and a character that keeps hunting long after you close the client — those two systems define Zeus:...

4
1 rating
Aion 2Free To Play

Aion 2

MMORPGReleased

AION 2 brings NC's Elyos-versus-Asmodian war into Unreal Engine 5, with a seamless rebuilt Atreia, tactical flight combat, and faction sieges fought o...

4
5 ratings
Lord of MysteriesFree To Play

Lord of Mysteries

MMORPGCBT

Adapted from one of the best-selling web novels in Chinese fiction, with an English translation that has reached millions of readers worldwide, Lord o...

4
2 ratings
Camelot UnchainedPay To Play

Camelot Unchained

MMORPGAlpha tests

Three realms, one endless war — Camelot Unchained builds its entire MMORPG around Realm-vs-Realm conflict, with no PvE storyline competing for attenti...

4
1 rating
Anarchy OnlineFree To Play

Anarchy Online

MMORPGReleased

Released in 2001, Anarchy Online was the first science-fiction MMORPG, and it's still running a quarter-century later. Funcom's classic sends players ...

4
1 rating
Gloria VictisFree To Play

Gloria Victis

MMORPGAnnounced

Gloria Victis is a low-fantasy medieval sandbox MMORPG where politics, territory, and siege warfare matter as much as combat skill. Guilds fight for c...

4
2 ratings
ArcheAgeFree To Play

ArcheAge

MMORPGReleased

Released by XL Games in 2013, ArcheAge built its reputation on sandbox freedom rarely matched since — housing, farming, shipbuilding, and open-ocean p...

4.3
3 ratings
World of WarcraftBuy To Play, Pay To Play

World of Warcraft

MMORPGReleased

World of Warcraft: Midnight brings Blizzard's flagship MMORPG back to Quel'Thalas, where Xal'atath's void armies threaten the Sunwell and a rebuilt Si...

4
2 ratings
Scars of HonorFree To Play

Scars of Honor

MMORPGAlpha tests

An ancient Ice Dragon is stirring in the frozen north of Aragon, dragging two long-standing rivals — the disciplined Sacred Order and the relentless D...

4.5
2 ratings