Monster Grinding MMOs

Monster Grinding MMOs

Kill, loot, repeat — monster grinding MMOs build progression around the simple, satisfying loop of clearing waves of enemies for experience, drops, and gradual power gains. There's no deep puzzle to it: efficient farming spots, party grinding, and steadily climbing numbers are the appeal in themselves, not a means to some other endgame. It's an old-school approach to leveling that some genre veterans still prefer over quest-chain hand-holding. This tag covers MMOs built around monster grinding, from classic grind-heavy MMORPGs where farming was the entire early game to modern titles keeping the loop alive for players who still enjoy it.

Found 58 games
Lineage 2 EssenceFree To Play

Lineage 2 Essence

MMORPGReleased

Lineage 2 Essence is NCSoft's free-to-play take on the classic Korean MMORPG Lineage II, built around faster leveling and an auto-hunt system that tra...

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
War ThunderFree To Play

War Thunder

MMOFPSSimulatorsReleased

War Thunder is a free-to-play military combat game from Gaijin Entertainment that puts aircraft, ground vehicles, and ships from ten nations into the ...

5
1 rating
CrossoutFree To Play

Crossout

MMOFPSSimulatorsReleased

Crossout is a post-apocalyptic vehicular combat game from Targem Games in which armored vehicles aren't chosen from a catalog but hand-assembled from ...

4
1 rating
MU OnlineFree To Play

MU Online

MMORPGReleased

MU Online is a South Korean isometric MMORPG from Webzen, first launched in 2001 and still receiving seasonal content updates today. Its defining feat...

4
1 rating
ARC RaidersBuy To Play

ARC Raiders

MMOFPSReleased

ARC Raiders is a third-person extraction shooter from Embark Studios, set on a near-future Earth overrun by a mechanized threat called ARC. Raiders sc...

5
1 rating
Escape from TarkovBuy To Play

Escape from Tarkov

MMOFPSReleased

Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore extraction shooter where death costs you nearly everything you carried, except for whatever fits in a small secure co...

4
1 rating
Blue Protocol: Star ResonanceFree To Play

Blue Protocol: Star Resonance

MMORPGReleased

The original Blue Protocol never made it past Japan before Bandai Namco shut it down — Blue Protocol: Star Resonance carries its world forward anyway,...

4
1 rating
TERAFree To Play

TERA

MMORPGClosed

TERA drops you into Arborea, a world built by two sleeping titans and torn apart by a war among twelve gods — one of the first MMORPGs to trade tab-ta...

5
1 rating
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
Runes of MagicFree To Play

Runes of Magic

MMORPGReleased

Released by Runewaker Entertainment in 2009, Runes of Magic built its identity around a dual-class system that lets players combine any two of ten cla...

4
1 rating
EVE FrontierFree To Play

EVE Frontier

MMORPGEarly access

Civilization collapsed generations ago, and EVE Frontier hands survivors nothing but a ship, a signal from three black holes, and the very real job of...

4
1 rating