A fantastic fight to flummox and fascinate fans, true believers! It’s the showdown of character creator betas for superhero games, as Ship of Heroes prepares to sail its creator into beta testing on November 1st! City of Titans is also planning to deliver its creator beta to backers soon, so who wins in the war of the dueling character creation tests? The answer is players! Who doesn’t like making superhero costumes?
Other beta news also took place this week, but it’s much less thematically consistent so it gets to the bullet point section:
- RuneScape Mobile is heading to early access this year, complete with improvements to its UI. If you just can’t get enough RuneScape in your life, it’s got you covered.
- Testers in Torchlight Frontiers have gotten new contacts, new enchanting, and new skills. Also a new sense of appreciation, probably.
- ArcheAge Unchained has thrown off the chains of its testing by letting everyone try it out. Yes, everyone! No chains!
- Last but not least, Fractured is running a test weekend for its recently-ported interface between Unity and SpatialOS. Test as you will.
There were, of course, much bigger stories this week… but most of those didn’t involve betas. The list just below does involve betas, but there’s always the chance that one of those betas slipped into a new testing stage without us noticing. If that’s the case, please let us know in the comments so we can correct it.
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
Arcfall: Pre-alpha
Ashes of Creation: Alpha one phase one; Apocalypse early access
Bless Unleashed: Closed beta
Camelot Unchained: Closed beta one
Children of Ur: Open alpha, further development merged with Eleven
Chronicles of Elyria: Pre-alpha
Citadel: Forged with Fire: Early access, launch on October 11th
Crowfall: Backer pre-alpha, alpha now expected in 2020
Cube World: Closed beta since September 23rd
Dauntless: Open beta
Dark and Light: Early access
Divergence Online:Â Alpha
Dual Universe: Alpha
ECO: Early access
Edengrad: Early access
Eleven: Closed alpha
Ever, Jane: Open beta
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Gloria Victis: Early access on Steam
Global Adventures: Closed beta
Guardians of Ember: Open beta
Life is Feudal: Early access
Line of Defense: Early access, removed from Steam
New World: Closed alpha – back on hiatus
Occupy White Walls: Early access
Osiris: New Dawn: Open beta
Outlaws of the Old West: Early access
Pantheon: Backer pre-alpha
Pathfinder Online: Subscription “early enrollment”
PlanetSide Arena: Early access
Project Genom: Closed alpha, servers offline for restructuring with SpatialOS
Project Gorgon: Early access beta
Prosperous Universe: Early access
SamuTale: Closed alpha
Ship of Heroes: Alpha
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
The Black Death: Early access alpha
The Cycle: Alpha, weekly test cycle
The Repopulation: Early access alpha
Torchlight Frontiers: Closed alpha, no NDA
Valiance Online: Alpha
Yes, MMO gamers, you too can perform the unpaid quality-control work otherwise known as game testing! Check out Massively Overpowered’s Betawatch every week for a run-down of MMOs that are still on the road to launch, even if they appear to have set up a permanent residence in a shed called early access.
