At long last, we know when Torchlight III (nee Frontiers) is launching. It’s October 13th! Isn’t that exciting? There are also outlined plans for how the head start access is going to work, as well. So we’ll finally be bidding a farewell to it on our testing lists, and then it will just be a released game people can hopefully enjoy. How marvelous!
Further marvels have occurred in beta-land! Or possibly not.
- Stars End has entered open beta this week, to the surprise of everyone who had forgotten about this survival title.
- New races and combat adjustments are present now in Mortal Online 2’s alpha testing, which is a magnificent surprise for those in testing.
- Surprise! Soulbound Studio insists that Chronicles of Elyria is still in development yet again. Gosh, it’d be horrible if there were statements on the record stating the exact opposite, huh.
- If you were looking for some underwater content or mounts from Ashes of Creation, surprise! Here’s a preview of both!
- Last but not least, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has surprised everyone by getting delayed from its prior announced release.
What is not surprising is the fact that we have a list full of games in current testing just below, and as we do every week, we invite you to take a look through it. It’s also not a surprise that we ask you to let us know if one of the surprises found therein is a game that has skipped ahead in testing without us noticing.
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
Book of Travels: Closed beta
Camelot Unchained: Closed beta one
Children of Ur: Open alpha, further development merged with Eleven
Craftopia: Early access
Crowfall: Closed beta
Crucible: Closed beta
Dauntless: Open beta
Dark and Light: Early access
Dual Universe: Beta
ECO: Early access
Eleven: Closed alpha
Elyon: Korean beta (fka Ascent Infinite Realm)
Ever, Jane: Open beta
Frozen Flame: Closed beta
Gloria Victis: Early access on Steam
Hearthstone Battleground Mode: Open beta
Inferna: Early access
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Life is Feudal: Early access
Line of Defense: Early access, removed from Steam
Magic: Legends: Closed alpha 2; beta testing in 2020
Mortal Online 2: Closed alpha
New World: Closed testing, launch pushed to 2021
Occupy White Walls: Early access
Osiris: New Dawn: Open beta
Outlaws of the Old West: Early access
Pantheon: Backer pre-alpha
Pathfinder Online: Subscription “early enrollment”
Population Zero: Early access
Project Genom: Closed alpha, servers offline for restructuring with SpatialOS
Project Gorgon: Early access beta
Prosperous Universe: Early access
Saga of Lucimia: Closed alpha
SamuTale: Closed alpha
Ship of Heroes: Alpha
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
Temtem: Early access
The Black Death: Early access alpha
The Cycle: Alpha, weekly test cycle
The Repopulation: Early access alpha
Torchlight III: Early access, launch on October 13th
Valiance Online: Alpha
Wild Terra 2: Intermittent beta
Zenith: 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.
