Gosh, every so often you just get a big surprise like Starbase, which came out of nowhere this week to just drop onto the scene as a surprise new game announcement. It certainly looks big and novel from this side of the screen, doesn’t it? Unless you don’t like space robots with voxels, which means you might be a monster of some sort.
Other beta news also exists, of course. It always does.
- The open beta for the 64-bit EVE Online client is live, for those of you with a nice shiny 64-bit computer (which is probably most of you). It’s going to play very similarly, but with better performance. You know, as 64-bit tends to do.
- Those of you who have been awaiting a Marvel-based MOBA for some reason can take heart that Marvel Super War is a thing that’s happening; you can even take a look at early gameplay footage. (For those of you who saw that and blinked, the Square-Enix Avengers game is also on its way for E3 this year. Chill.)
- Hey, check it out, Wild West Online added some monsters and is wholly rebranding as New Frontier. That’s not dodgy or disappointing at all! (We suppose that the odds were always low that it would rebrand as Red-Pison.)
- Rather than ending on a down note, let’s check out the latest video from Ship of Heroes, shall we? It has leveling! Leveling is a good thing. We like leveling up.
So we begin and end in space, although considering that our planets are already floating in space perhaps everything is a space game if you think about it. Cosmic. Check out more space games down below, and if you see something on that list that should be in a different space-category, let us know in the space-comments.
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
Bless Unleashed: Closed beta
Camelot Unchained: Closed beta one
Children of Ur: Open alpha, further development merged with Eleven
Chronicles of Elyria: Pre-alpha
Citadel: Forged with Fire: Early access
Crowfall: Backer pre-alpha
Cube World: Closed alpha
Dauntless: Open beta
Dark and Light: Early access
Divergence Online:Â Alpha
Dual Universe: Alpha
ECO: Early access
Edengrad: Early access
Eleven:Â Closed alpha
Ever, Jane: Open beta
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Gloria Victis: Early access on Steam
Global Adventures: Closed beta
Guardians of Ember: Open beta
Legends of Aria: Early access
Life is Feudal: Early access
Line of Defense: Early access, removed from Steam
New World: Closed alpha
Occupy White Walls: Early access
Osiris: New Dawn: Early access
Outlaws of the Old West: Early access
Pantheon: Backer pre-alpha
Pathfinder Online: Subscription “early enrollment”
PixARK: Early access
Project Genom: Closed alpha, servers offline for restructuring with SpatialOS
Project Gorgon: Early access beta
Prosperous Universe: Early access
SamuTale: Closed alpha
Ship of Heroes: Alpha
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
The Black Death: Early access alpha
The Cycle: Alpha, weekly test cycle
The Repopulation: Early access alpha
Torchlight Frontiers: Closed alpha, no NDA
Valiance Online: Alpha
Worlds Adrift: Early access
WoW Classic: Closed beta
Yes, MMO gamers, you too can perform the unpaid quality-control work otherwise known as game testing while eating burritos! Check out Massively Overpowered’s Burritowatch every week for a run-down of MMOs that are still on the road to burritos.
