Darn it, Crowfall, could you be bothered to have a unifying theme this week? Look, it’s good that you’re giving out monthly rewards to backers, it’s good that you’re explaining how race disciplines work. It’s even good that you’re introducing people to the way to harvest corpses and make new vessels. But there’s no unifying narrative to all of this! I need a throughline!
[You don’t need a throughline. Make this more concise and segue more naturally into the bullet points. –Ed.]- If you’re eager for some MOBA/battle royale action that involves pandas, you could check out Hunter’s Arena Legends starting its beta this very night. [That’s not a number or a word. –Ed.]
- Blue Protocol, free-to-play, hey-nonny-nonny-nonny woohoo. [Put actual effort back into this one. –Ed.]
- Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Past Fate. February 24th. [That’s an open alpha date that has nothing to do with the tag line of The Shadow; write this accurately. –Ed.]
- Shadow Arena arble garble. [This isn’t even pretending to be a sentence. It’s an open beta on February 27th. We had an interview. What is going on here? –Ed.]
- Scary elf. [Is… is this supposed to be about the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands encrypted alpha? I don’t know. –Ed.]
Then the rabbit ate my hair and it tasted fine. [Okay, I think at this point Eliot is taking those meds he was told to discontinue. We’ll take care of it on our end, but for now, just… check out the list down below, let us know if there’s anything that changed test phases without our noticing. This is a mess. –Ed.]
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: Open beta
Camelot Unchained: Closed beta one
Children of Ur: Open alpha, further development merged with Eleven
Chronicles of Elyria: Pre-alpha
Crowfall: Backer pre-alpha, alpha now expected in 2020
Cube World: Closed beta since September 23rd
Dauntless: Open beta
Dark and Light: Early access
Dual Universe: Alpha
ECO: Early access
Eleven: Closed alpha
Ever, Jane: Open beta
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Gloria Victis: Early access on Steam
Guardians of Ember: Open beta
Hearthstone Battleground Mode: Open beta
Inferna: Early access
Life is Feudal: Early access
Line of Defense: Early access, removed from Steam
Magic: Legends: Beta testing in 2020
New World: Closed alpha, launching May 2020
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”
Phantasy Star Online 2: Closed beta on Xbox One (PC version expected)
Project Genom: Closed alpha, servers offline for restructuring with SpatialOS
Project Gorgon: Early access beta
Prosperous Universe: Early access
Saga of Lucimia: Closed alpha
SamuTale: Closed alpha
Ship of Heroes: Alpha
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
Temtem: Early access
The Black Death: Early access alpha
The Cycle: Alpha, weekly test cycle
The Repopulation: Early access alpha
Torchlight III: Closed alpha
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.
