The beta for Chrono Odyssey has begun and brought with it… bugs. Now, this would be completely fine if the game in question was Entomologist Combat Odyssey, but in this case those bugs are not enemies you need to fight but problems that aren’t supposed to be there. Still, they’re promising more capacity, so that’s something! Meanwhile, Bitcraft is going into early access… uh… well, first it was the 20th, then it was the 27th, now it’s going to be tomorrow, so hopefully tomorrow but who knows any more?
In other news, the Kickstarter for Lionhearts has kicked off and it is decidedly not pay-to-win. How can we tell? Well, because there’s no accepted definition for the term so it can still assert that confidently whilst selling duchies for $10,000 a pop. Nifty. Also, Dragonwilds believes in magic, because it just patched that in. Now you can wave your hand and go “wooooooo” and it will theoretically do something. Magic!
Do you want more magic? Gosh, you are needy, huh? Well, fortunately for you, we’ve got our full list of games in testing down below our roundup of major beta news this week. If something slipped into a new test phase without us noticing or we just missed something important, let us know down in the comments!
‘Anti-P2W’ MMO Lionhearts is on Kickstarter selling duchies and duke titles for $10,000
Chrono Odyssey’s beta is underway with no NDA, lots of bugs, and the promise of more invites and capacity
Greg Street explains how Project Ghost’s proc-gen blue zones will give Grizzly Hills vibes without the expense
RuneScape Dragonwilds patches in magic today as Jagex commits to the survivalbox with a huge roadmap
MMORPG sandbox BitCraft has delayed its early access, again, this time to June 27
MMORPG sandbox BitCraft will launch early access tomorrow after all, not next week
Co-op roguelike shooter Terminull Brigade nails down a July 29 release date on PC
Fractured Online’s revamp will swap prefab player housing to a fully modular building system
Star Citizen updates to alpha 4.2 with new sandbox activity, new vehicles, and ship rebalancing
No, Pax Dei didn’t punch goats to get those amazing goat noises
Lost Skies adds new biome and assets to its island creator, releases a fourth hotfix for the survivalbox
Stars Reach talks up its Wild Wormholes update in latest livestream, preps one day open test for June 19
Necesse has one more content patch before 1.0 launch, promises more updates post-launch
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen releases another round of bug fixes and class tweaks, reduces its FOV slider
Age of Water’s latest patch adds wind turbines and rebalances power consumption
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
Malingering33 Immortals: Early access
Abyss: Early access
The Adventurer’s Domain Online: Early access
Aero Tales Online: Early access
Aloft: Early access
Ammo and Oxygen: Early access starts November 7th
Anvil Empires: Intermittent alpha
Apogea: Open testing
Arcane Waters: Early access
Arc Raiders: Tech test this weekend, launch planned for 2025
Arcfall: Pre-alpha
Adrullan Online Adventures: Weekend-long open test starts April 19th, renamed from Evercraft Online
ARK 2: Paid early access
Arkheron: Closed beta
Ascendant: Open testing in August
Ashes of Creation: Alpha two
Ashfall: Closed beta
ASKA: Early access
Battlebit: Early access
Bellatores: Closed testing
Bellwright: Early access, developers of abandoned Last Oasis
Bitcraft: Early access launch definitely on June 21st, really we promise now
Book of Travels: Early access
Brighter Shores: Early access
Camelot Unchained: Closed beta, planning to launch in late 2025
Chronicles of Elyria: Pre-alpha, again
Chrono Odyssey: Closed beta, launch planned for Q4 2025
Cinderstone Online: Closed beta
City of Titans: Alpha
Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore: Early access
Corepunk: Early access
Craftopia: Early access
The Crew Motorfest: Closed testing
Crosswind: Future testing events planned on Steam
Dark and Darker: Paid early access, legal troubles.
Dark and Light: Early access (abandoned?)
Darkbind: Closed beta (probably abandoned?)
Dawn of Defiance: Early access
Destiny Rising: Closed beta
Dragonwilds: Early access
Dreamworld: Pre-alpha, open playtest until March 16th
Dungeonborne>: Early access
ECO: Early access, full launch planned in 2024
Eleven: Closed alpha
Enshrouded: Early access
Equinox Homecoming: Early access on May 8th
Eternal Tombs: Pre-alpha resumes October 11th
EVE Vanguard: Early access planned for summer 2026
Evercore Heroes: Ascension: June 19th early access
Final Stand: Ragnarok: Early access (officially, really)
Fellowship: Open testing in late May
FragPunk: Closed alpha, launch planned for March 6th
Frozen Flame: Early access
Havenhold: Closed beta
Homestead: Open alpha
IfSunSets: Early access
Ilysia: Early access
Inferna: Early access
King of Meat: Alpha test December 4th through the 14th
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Legend of Ares: Open testing ahead of relaunch
Legendarium Online: Paid alpha access
Life is Feudal Arden: Open beta
Loftia: Alpha planned for April
Lost Skies: Early access
Magic to Master: Somehow, Palpatine returned in early access
Marathon: Alpha testing
Mecha Break: Open beta concluded, launching 2025
Midnight Murder Club: Closed testing this weekend
Monsters & Memories: Intermittent pre-alpha
Mortal Exodus: Closed testing
Necesse: Early access, full launch on October 9th
Nightingale: Early access
Odd Giants: Alpha
Osiris: New Dawn: Back from the dead, not on Steam any longer
Outbound: Alpha testing
Outlaws of the Old West: Early access
Palia: Paid “open” beta, planning for launch in Q2
Palworld: Early access
Pantheon: Early access
Past Fate: Closed testing
Path of Exile 2: Early access December 6th
Pax Dei: Early access
Perfect New World: Closed beta
Pioner: Open beta planned for summer
Pow Vista: Open beta (mobile)
Project Crawl: Closed testing
Project Friendship: Beta signups open now
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: Early access
Return Alive: Closed beta
Reign of Guilds: Early access
Rodent Rumble: Launching next year, playtest on October 11th
SamuTale: “Paid closed alpha early access” according to the developer, which is just early access, come on dude
Sand: Early access delayed
Scars of Honor: Next test October 26th
Seed: In pre-release, test run starts October 24th
Seekers of Skyveil: Early access
Ship of Heroes: Beta testing, plans for launch in 2025
Ships at Sea: Early access
Sky: Children of Light: Open early access
Skygard Arena: Early access
Smite 2: Open beta
Soulframe: Open pre-alpha planned for 2025
Spacecraft: Alpha in the first half of 2025, might not be an MMORPG but it’s vague
The Spell Brigade: Early access
Spellfarers: Early access
Splitgate: Open beta
Steel Hunters: Early access
Supervive: Open testing November 20th
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
Star Resonance: Closed beta in China, rebrand of Blue Protocol Mobile following main title’s shutdown
Starbase: Early access open alpha
Stars Reach: Pre-alpha started
Synduality: Echo of Ada: Early access
Temtem Swarm: Early access
Tombstone: Closed testing, release planned for this year
Tower of Aghasba: Early access planned for November 19th
Tribes 3: Rivals: Early access, development slowing/stopping
Trimurti Online: Stress testing, open beta February 13th
Valheim: Early access
Valiance Online: Closed beta
Vaultbreakers: Closed testing, formerly known as Project F4E
Vindictus: Defying Fate: Test with multiplayer on June 8th
WalkScape: Closed beta until June 15th
Warborne Above Ashes: Alpha
Waven Early access
ZeroSpace: Back in closed testing.
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.
