Hey there, Pantheon, you… you doing okay there, buddy? What’s that? You’re suddenly pivoting to having a totally new game on the side that’s an extraction game that you say is going to help the game launch sooner. Our days of wondering whether you’re ever going to get to the finish line are definitely coming to a middle now.
In other news, Ship of Heroes seems to have leaked pricing and subscription information, then claim it totally did not do that and it must have been hackers. That’s just… that’s great. You’re doing amazing, sweetie.
Everyone is just doing awesome in MMO beta news this week, obviously, but we also have our usual list of games currently in testing just below. If you notice that a game is listed as the wrong status by slipping to another test stage or even outright launching, let us know in the comments. You do not, however, need to tell us in the comments how all of these header stories are signs that this stuff is going super. We got that.
Ilysia thanks players for their support as it rolls over early access bugs in latest patches
Fractured Online’s latest patch adds quick rests and more ultimate legends
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.21 brings new missions and a new bomber ahead of CitizenCon this weekend
Pax Dei demos its extensive character creator in new video as players await alpha date
Tarisland is overhauling everything from dungeon difficulty to class roles ahead of November CBT
Players died over 100,000 times in Throne & Liberty’s September technical test
Monsters & Memories hires four new devs and improves game performance
Tarisland teases a PvE map inspired by a copper mine in Chile
Lord of the Rings Online opens the Corsairs of Umbar expansion for player testing
Genfanad dates closed beta testing of its card game combat revamp for October 20
Pantheon confirms ‘247’ extraction play mode rumors: ‘This is not a cancellation of Pantheon’
Throne & Liberty promises to show off more of its launch content on November 2
Palia lands on the Epic Games Store next week alongside new European servers
Past Fate’s alpha refines combat, brings new cooking recipes, and celebrates Halloween
Colony builder MMO SEED returns to active development with a playtest scheduled for October 18
Ship of Heroes’ digital storefront leaks the MMORPG’s box price and subscription fee
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 beta
ASKA: Closed beta
Battlebit: Early access
Battle Crush: Closed beta on October 23rd
Bellatores: Closed testing
Bitcraft: Alpha planned for 2024
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: Early access
Corepunk: Early access planned for December, next test planned for October
Craftopia: Early access
The Crew Motorfest: Closed testing
Dark and Darker: Paid early access, legal troubles.
Dark and Light: Early access (abandoned?)
Darkbind: Closed beta (probably abandoned?)
The Day Before: Closed alpha (delay drama)
The Division Heartland: Closed testing
Dreamworld: Pre-alpha
Dune Awakening: Closed testing
ECO: Early access
Eleven: Closed alpha
Enlisted: Beta
Evercore Heroes: Paid testing, updates stopping with a focus on a redesign
Fae Farm: Closed testing, launch planned for September 8th
The First Descendant: Crossplay beta
Fractured Online: Paid beta access
Fractured Veil: Back in closed development, early access delayed to 2024
Frozen Flame: Early access
Genfanad: Alpha
Ilysia: Early access
Inferna: Early access
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Last Oasis: Early access (abandoned?)
Legendarium Online: Paid alpha access
Lost Skies: Closed testing
Monster Hunter Now: Closed beta
Monsters & Memories: Intermittent pre-alpha
Mortal Exodus: Closed testing
Multiversus: Returned to closed testing
Nightingale: Ongoing closed events
Noah’s Heart: Beta
Odd Giants: Alpha
Outlaws of the Old West: Early access
Palia: Open beta
Pantheon: Intermittent backer alpha, new extraction spinoff
Past Fate: Closed testing
Path of Exile 2: Beta June 2024
Pax Dei: Closed alpha
Perfect New World: Closed beta
Pow Vista: Open beta (mobile)
Project Crawl: Closed testing
Project F4E: Closed testing
Project Genom: Closed alpha (servers offline, abandoned?)
Project Gorgon: Early access beta
Project Loki: Closed beta
Project ST: Closed testing, open event ended
Prosperous Universe: Early access
Return Alive: Closed beta
Reign of Guilds: Intermittent open beta
SamuTale: “Paid closed alpha early access” according to the developer, which is just early access, come on dude
Seed: Active development, playtest through October 29th
Seekers of Skyveil: Closed alpha on October 20th
Shadow’s Kiss: Early access (but read this first)
Ship of Heroes: Beta testing
Skull and Bones: Closed beta
Spellcraft: Alpha
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
Starbase: Early access open alpha
Tarisland: Beta
Throne & Liberty: Korean closed beta, western launch delayed into 2024
Trimurti Online: Stress testing
Valheim: Early access
V Rising: Early access
Valiance Online: Closed beta
The Wagadu Chronicles: Alpha two
Warcraft Rumble: Full launch November 3rd
Warhaven: Early access
Waven Early access
Wayfinder Early access ahead of full launch
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.
