Those of you who have waited eagerly for the day when everyone can jump into Revelation Online won’t have to wait much longer, as the game’s open beta is starting up March 6th. Players who purchased one of the game’s founder’s packs will be able to get in a little bit earlier, to boot. The game also showed off its special skills, which is “break the rules” special rather than “riding a different bus to school” special.
Shall we cover other beta news this week? Yes! Why not? You may join us in a chortle.
- The “kitchen sink” patch for Conan Exiles does not actually add kitchen sinks. It does, however, add a whole lot of stuff to the game just the same, so if you’ve been taking a break from the game after its launch you might want to go poke around again.
- Another open test weekend is coming around for The Imperial Realm: Miranda, which we would like to note once more is an entire open-world strategy game developed and managed by a single person. That’s pretty cool right there.
- The Shards Online development team has dropped the game’s NDA in preparation for the game’s Steam launch, which also comes with a server wipe. There’s also a community roundtable video in which the developers work to build up more hype for the game among fans.
- Looking forward to Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen? The developers have posted a big state of the game update explaining how development has been going while also defending the game’s limited selection of class and race combinations.
Yes, that’s all a bit quiet, but the list down below can be raucous despite our best efforts to silence it. You can let us know if parts of the list deserve more consideration down in the comments, like if a title has slipped into launch without us catching it. We keep putting up nets but some titles slip through. I suspect there’s a hive.
As always, we consider an MMO to be in open testing if it features free, public signups and will server wipe prior to launch. An MMO is marked in closed testing if it’s running a private test phase that cannot freely be accessed by the general public; it’s usually under NDA as well. Early access and crowdfunded MMOs whose tests we deem legitimate will be included. So-called “open beta” soft-launch MMOs with cash shops, no sign of launch in the west, or limited interest for our readers will not be listed; we also do not list expansions, with occasional exceptions.
AdventureQuest 3D: Open beta
Albion Online: Closed beta will last well into 2017
Boundless: Donor alpha
Camelot Unchained:Â Backer alpha
Children of Ur: Open alpha
Cloud Pirates: Early access
Crossout: Closed beta
Crowfall: Backer pre-alpha
Cube World: Closed alpha
DayZ: Early access
Divergence Online:Â Alpha
Eleven:Â Closed alpha
Ever, Jane: Open beta
Fragmented: Early access
Gigantic: Open beta
Gloria Victis: Early Access on Steam
H1Z1:Â Paid early access, split into two games
HEX:Â Unofficial open beta
LawBreakers: Closed alpha
Life is Feudal: Closed beta
Line of Defense: Early access, removed from Steam
Master x Master: Alpha test
Mu Legend: Closed beta
MyDream: Closed testing open to donors
Origins of Malu:Â Development moving forward on battleground experience, MMO suspended
Osiris: New Dawn: Early access
Paladins: Closed beta
Paragon: Open beta
Pathfinder Online: Subscription “early enrollment”
Project Genom: Closed alpha
Project Gorgon: Free, open testing
Revelation Online: Closed beta
SamuTale: Closed alpha
Shards Online: Pre-alpha
SkySaga: Ongoing NA and UK alpha events
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
Stash: Backer alpha
The Black Death: Early access alpha
The Culling: Early access testing
The Exiled: Closed alpha, early access on February 23rd; formerly Das Tal
The Repopulation: Ownership changed, testing reopens Q1 2017
Tree of Life: Open beta
Tribal Wars 2: Open testing
TUG: Steam early access alpha
Valiance Online: Alpha testing
Wild Terra: Steam early access
Worlds Adrift: Early access planned for Q1 2017
