Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games that you’ve (probably) never heard of!
Tidal Nexus Online: This underwater MMO-lite came to our attention thanks to a lone Reddit post, which characterized it as a spin-off of 2008 browser game called Deepolis. Studio Riptide Interactive has it listed on Steam with a request button for test access but no ETA for launch. The website declares that phase 3 of playtesting will start “soon.”
Kaetram – We’ve mentioned Kaetram once before in these roundups; it’s an open-source 2D MMO also forked from a browser game called BrowserQuest. Most recently, the game launched a hardcore ironman mode. It’s still flagged in beta on the official site and early access on Steam – with surprisingly positive reviews to date.
IMAGINE – Finally, we come to IMAGINE, a Shin Megami Tensei franchise MMO that spawned out of the RPG SMT NINE. As RPGsite chronicled, the game was shuttled around studios and shut down in 2013 after six years online in the west; the last global server went offline in 2016. But apparently, fans have been running rogue servers, with the bulk of them sunsetting. One was even sued by the original company, a story we covered ourselves back in 2022. But apparently, last year another group put together a server called New Moon, claiming to have an unofficial license, so the game lives on again.
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