It’s been years since the day when Gloria Victis first made its way into early access, and you can hardly be blamed if you were of the mind that it would spend forever in early access. But that is ending on February 7th, which is remarkably soon; the game is officially moving from early access into full launch after all! If you feel the urge to roast a suckling pig on a spit to celebrate the occasion, that seems thematically appropriate.
Other beta news that involves not quite so much launching after all:
- Shadow’s Kiss has moved into early access, and the reviews of the game in early access are… not great! People are not enthusiastic about the title so far. Sorry.
- Blue Protocol has delayed its Japanese network testing once again, which is far from a great sign for anyone hoping it would be out sooner rather than later.
- It’s the final pre-launch countdown for Throne and Liberty, and that means more testing. All the testing. So many tests you can’t even believe.
- Valheim has a pretty meaty update hitting the game. Reasonably meaty. There is not a dearth of meat.
- If you want to give RuneScape’s Jagex launcher a closed beta test, that’s available for testing now.
- Last but not least, The Day Before is delaying its test of a name issue… despite the fact that it seems to be doing a lot of things development-wise unrelated to the game’s name. Hmm.
With all that having been said, we do in fact have a list of games in testing just below for you! Yes, as we do every week. It is always possible that we missed an important shift in test phases, and if that happened we ask for your kindness to flag that in the comments down below. We’ll be your friend! (Cash value of our friendship: No greater than $0.10.)
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, nor will games that are NFT/blockchain scams; we also do not list expansions, with occasional exceptions.
Aero Tales Online: Early access
Arcane Waters: Early access
Arcfall: Pre-alpha
Age of Water: Beta
Ashes of Creation: Alpha two in planning
Book of Travels: Early access
Camelot Unchained: Closed beta
Chronicles of Elyria: Pre-alpha, again
Cinderstone Online: Closed beta
City of Titans: Alpha
Corepunk: Closed alpha
Craftopia: Early access
The Cycle: Closed beta
Dark and Light: Early access
Darkbind: Closed beta
Dreamworld: Pre-alpha
ECO: Early access
Eleven: Closed alpha
Enlisted: Beta
Fractured Online: Back in closed development, early access aiming for February
Frozen Flame: Early access
Galahad 3093: Early access
Genfanad: Alpha
Gloria Victis: Beta (early access) on Steam, launches on February 7th
Ilysia: Alpha two
Inferna: Early access
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Last Oasis: Early access
Noah’s Heart: Beta
Mad World: Beta
Osiris: New Dawn: Open beta
Outlaws of the Old West: Early access
Palia: Closed alpha
Pantheon: Backer pre-alpha, monthly alpha tests planned for 2023 (first on January 28th)
Past Fate: Closed alpha
Project Genom: Closed alpha, servers offline for restructuring with SpatialOS
Project Gorgon: Early access beta
Prosperous Universe: Early access
SamuTale: Closed alpha
Seed: Alpha
Shadow’s Kiss: Early access
Ship of Heroes: Beta testing
Skull and Bones: Closed alpha
Skydome: Closed beta
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
Starbase: Early access open alpha
Tarisland: Beta
The Adventurer’s Domain Online: Early access on January 26th
The Black Death: Early access alpha
The Cycle: Closed beta
V Rising: Early access
Valiance Online: Closed beta
The Wagadu Chronicles: Alpha two
Waven: Open 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.
