MMOs with Naval Content

Not every MMO with ships is actually about sailing them — sometimes naval content is just one strong system among many. MMOs with naval content layer in ship ownership, sea trade routes, naval combat, or ocean exploration as a meaningful side activity rather than the game's core identity, giving players a reason to leave dry land without turning the whole experience into a sailing simulator. It's a feature that adds scale and variety to an otherwise land-based MMORPG rather than defining it. This tag covers MMOs with ships and sea content worth diving into, from Black Desert Online's trading and naval combat systems to Lost Ark's island-hopping and sea exploration.

Found 12 games
Black Desert OnlineFree To Play

Black Desert Online

MMORPGReleased

Black Desert Online's character creator is deep enough that players spend hours before ever touching combat, and the payoff is a fluid, chain-combo ac...

5
6 ratings
Darkfall OnlineFree To Play

Darkfall 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...

5
1 rating
NorrothFree To Play

Norroth

MMORPGReleased

Norroth is a tile-based MMORPG that one independent developer has been building since 2018, and it's adding a Steam client alongside a version 1.0 upd...

5
1 rating
ARK: Survival EvolvedBuy To Play

ARK: Survival Evolved

MMORPGReleased

Released by Studio Wildcard in 2017, ARK: Survival Evolved puts players on a prehistoric island where taming, breeding, and riding over a hundred dino...

5
1 rating
Haven & HearthFree To Play

Haven & 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...

4
1 rating
Wurm OnlineFree To Play

Wurm 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...

4
1 rating
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
Profane

Profane

MMORPGAlpha tests

Profane is an upcoming sandbox MMORPG from Brazilian studio INSANE, set in a single-shard world where NPC settlements grow on their own and player gui...

Pirate King OnlineFree To Play

Pirate King Online

MMORPGReleased

Pirate King Online began as a private continuation of Tales of Pirates II after IGG shut the original down in 2016, with fan studio ServerDev relaunch...

4
1 rating
The QuinfallBuy To Play

The 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...

4.5
4 ratings
Light No FireBuy To Play

Light No Fire

MMORPGAnnounced

Light No Fire is Hello Games' next project after No Man's Sky: a single, Earth-sized fantasy planet shared by players who explore, build, and survive ...

5
2 ratings
BitCraft OnlineBuy To Play

BitCraft 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...

4
1 rating