The past decade has been weird for a City of Heroes fan, and that extends to games like City of Titans. And now, the game has released its full map for players to run around and test. The player team has been doing its best to stay in development for a long decade, and it might not be where anyone wants to be, but you can see that the passion and dedication is still there. That makes me happy.
What does not make me happy is EVE Vanguard because it’s yet another instance wherein CCP is trying to get anyone to want a FPS spinoff based on their one hit. How will this one go? Well, you can try it out for yourself starting on December 7th, but let’s be honest with ourselves. Why would this one land when all the others didn’t?
Despite this week involving a major holiday stateside that sent a lot of people home early, there was still a fair amount of beta news, and of course we have collected it in our list just below. There’s also our full list of games in testing below that, and as always we’d love it if you let us know about games that slipped into a new test phase without our noticing. That’s just mighty kind of you.
Kickstarted superhero MMORPG City of Titans releases new test build with massively expanded map
Throne & Liberty unloads seven (!) new class videos at G-Star
Throne & Liberty addresses PvP overlap, cash shop plans, and its global launch
Corepunk hopes to have early access launched by the end of winter
Palia’s latest beta update adds a new character storyline, fresh decor, and a quirky critter
EVE Online’s FPS module Vanguard will have its first test on December 7 for subscribers
Fractured Online sold 5000 copies, devs post short-term update roadmap and more stats
First Impressions: Tarisland has some rickety bones but some solid muscle
Star Citizen introduces the flyable Argo SRV space tow truck and in-concept RSI Arrastra mining ship
Kickstarted superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes’ power augments borrow all the right bits from City of Heroes
ARK Survival Ascended arrives to Xbox consoles, delays its PlayStation launch to early December
Reign of Guilds targets early access launch in early 2024 and an open playtest in mid-December
Fractured Online’s player city restoration is underway following malicious hack last weekend
Fractured Online hopes to restore its player cities today after nasty weekend hack
Mortal Online 2 calls latest UE5 test ‘a huge success’ and readies another PTR this week
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
MalingeringAbyss: Closed alpha
The Adventurer’s Domain Online: Early access
Aero Tales Online: Early access
Age of Water: Paid closed beta
Aika Online: Open beta
Anvil Empires: Intermittent alpha
Arcane Waters: Early access
Arcfall: Pre-alpha
ARK 2: Paid early access
Ashes of Creation: Alpha two in planning
Ashfall: Closed beta
ASKA: Closed beta
Battlebit: Early access
Battle Crush: Beta
Bellatores: Closed testing
Bitcraft: Alpha planned for 2024
Blue Protocol: Launching worldwide in 2024, technical tests starting November 8th
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 end of winter
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, delayed until December
The Division Heartland: Closed testing
Dreamworld: Pre-alpha
Dune Awakening: Closed testing, signups now
ECO: Early access
Eleven: Closed alpha
Enlisted: Beta
EVE Vanguard: Closed beta for subscribers on December 7th
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 early access, back on Steam
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
Once Human: Beta on December 7th
Outlaws of the Old West: Early access
Palia: Open beta
Pantheon: Backer alpha, 247 canceled
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
Quinfall: Beta delayed to 2024
Return Alive: Closed beta
Reign of Guilds: Beta event in mid-December, early access planned for 2024
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: Second closed 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: Early access on December 4th
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.
