If you are one of those people still posting cringe-worthy chatter about how you are above petty concerns such as console gaming (perhaps with an implied patronizing sneer), this hasn’t been a stellar week for you anyway and indeed has been made somewhat worse with the promise that Palia will be available free-to-play on Nintendo Switch during the holiday season. Yes, some people were very upset about this before the developers made it clear that this is in addition to the PC version, not replacing it, and that both versions will get the same development and support.
Meanwhile, the upcoming ARC Raiders PvPvE extraction shooter (wow, there’s a genre name I fully expect to be sick of typing or hearing about five minutes from now) is entering closed beta on June 29th. Mark your calendar! Or don’t, I’m not your dad. But if you want to fight against waves of stuff leading to extraction, it might be a good idea.
And now I have a console video game to go play because I’m enjoying it. It involves a dog. You can let us all know what video games you’re playing in testing down below, though, or you can let us know if we missed something important like a game slipping into another test phase while escaping our notice.
Free-to-play PvPvE shooter The Division Heartland confirms closed beta test for PC on June 27
MMORPG sandbox BitCraft concludes pre-alpha, looks forward to closed alpha
After half a year offline, Fractured’s early access is finally relaunching today
MMOs You’ve Never Heard of: Solarpunk, Hyperspace, and Dawnlands
X-Legend’s Tales of Dragon is a dragon-taming mobile MMORPG now open for pre-registration
Phoenix Labs’ cozy MMO Fae Farm buffs its preorder packages, releases new trailer
The Stream Team: A peek at the open beta of Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore
Palia announces free-to-play arrival to Nintendo Switch this holiday season, reaffirms work on PC version
Gaijin’s ‘aquatic adventure MMO’ Age of Water enters paid closed beta stage two early access
Competitive team PvE game Evercore Heroes hits paid closed beta today [Updated]
Waven is available in demo form during the Steam Next Fest through June 26
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 often 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. Finally, we’ll mark games “malingering” if they’ve been in a certain tier of development for a long time with no clear path to launch.
Open testing
Closed testing
Paid access
Legit MMORPG
Multiplayer
MalingeringThe Adventurer’s Domain Online: Early access
Aero Tales Online: Early access
Age of Water: Paid closed beta
Anvil Empires: Intermittent alpha
Arcane Waters: Early access
Arcfall: Pre-alpha
ARK 2: Closed testing
Ashes of Creation: Alpha two in planning
Ashfall: Closed testing
Battlebit: Early access
Bellatores: Closed testing
Bitcraft: Closed alpha incoming
Blue Protocol: Launching worldwide in 2024
Book of Travels: Early access
Camelot Unchained: Closed beta
Chronicles of Elyria: Pre-alpha, again
Chrono Odyssey: Closed testing
Cinderstone Online: Closed beta
City of Titans: Alpha
Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore: Alpha, open test during Steam Next Fest
Corepunk: Closed alpha
Craftopia: Early access
The Crew Motorfest: Closed testing
Dark and Light: Early access (abandoned?)
Darkbind: Closed beta (probably abandoned?)
Dawnlands: Closed beta on June 24th
The Day Before: Closed alpha (delay drama)
The Division Heartland: Closed testing begins on June 27th
Dreamworld: Pre-alpha
Dune Awakening: Closed testing
ECO: Early access
Eleven: Closed alpha
Enlisted: Beta
Evercore Heroes: Paid testing
Fae Farm: Closed testing (delayed)
Fractured Online: Paid beta access
Fractured Veil: Back in closed development
Frozen Flame: Early access
Genfanad: Alpha
Ilysia: Alpha two
Inferna: Early access
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Last Oasis: Early access (abandoned?)
Lost Skies: Closed testing
Monster Hunter Now: Closed beta
Monsters & Memories: Intermittent pre-alpha
Mortal Exodus: Closed testing
Multiverse: Returned to closed testing
Nightingale: Meep
Noah’s Heart: Beta
Odd Giants: Alpha
Outlaws of the Old West: Early access
Palia: Closed alpha
Pantheon: Intermittent backer alpha
Past Fate: Closed alpha
Path of Exile 2: Beta soon, announcement expected July 28th
Pax Dei: Closed alpha
Perfect New World: Closed beta
Pow Vista: Open beta (mobile)
Project F4E: Closed testing
Project Genom: Closed alpha (servers offline, abandoned?)
Project Gorgon: Early access beta
Prosperous Universe: Early access
Reign of Guilds: Intermittent open beta
SamuTale: Closed alpha
Seed: Alpha (drama, crypto link and weird comms blockout?)
Shadow’s Kiss: Early access (but read this first)
Ship of Heroes: Beta testing
Skull and Bones: Closed alpha
Spellcraft: Alpha
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
Starbase: Early access open alpha
Tarisland: Beta
Throne & Liberty: Korean closed beta
Valheim: Early access
V Rising: Early access
Valiance Online: Closed beta
The Wagadu Chronicles: Alpha two
Warcraft Arclight Rumble: Closed alpha
Waven: Open alpha, part of Steam Next Fest
Wayfinder: Closed beta
We welcome additions and corrections to this list; send your info our way via tips!
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.
