Here are two things that Past Fate did over the past week: apologized for the rough launch while making immediate improvements and then resetting player levels altogether. Here is a new nickname I came up with for Past Fate because I was tired of making the typo “Paste Fat”: Pasty McFasty, The Fatest Paste in the Waste. Here are some words that rhyme with floor: door, chore, tour, more, score, roar. Does any of those items have anything to do with one another? No. Segues are hard sometimes.
Meanwhile, Hytale has officially high-tailed its way into early access for anyone who’s eager for voxels. Chrono Odyssey has answered questions for anyone who’s eager to know more about the forthcoming game, however messy it may seem to be at the moment, and Darkfall: Rise of Agon does indeed appear to be rising once more for anyone who was hoping that would happen? Apparently some people were!
And now we bid you farewell for another week, but not before offering folks a list of games in testing down below our roundup of the week’s beta news. Notice something missing or a game that’s slipped into a new test phase without our noticing? Let us know down in the comments!
Hytale has officially opened its early access to hungry pixel MMO players today
LLM-powered MMORPG Epitome teases its features and promises a playable build during its January Kickstarter drive
Hytale devs are working on minigames and social features – and offering big payouts for exploits
Fractured Conquest, formerly Fractured Online, teases its proposed gameplay and archetypes
Elder Scrolls Online begins testing Season Zero as players debate new melee animations
Anticipating 1M early access players, Hytale runs a stress test and shows off Entity tools
Corepunk switches over to a crafting-only gear game with January’s patch
Spry Fox bosses slashed their salaries to buy out the studio and launch cozy MMO Spirit Crossing later this year
Medieval MMO Past Fate resets character levels a week after early access launch
Move over, cottagecore: Palia goes cardigancore with its Winter’s Wonder update
Star Citizen plots new missions for alpha 4.6 and engages a limited-time resource price surge
Darkfall Rise of Agon starts 2026 with a successful weekend test with early access coming soon
Darkfall revival Rise of Agon will launch its new 32bit ‘legacy’ server this Friday
Eternal Tombs projects an early 2027 release as it shares snippets of gameplay and boss fights
Dieselpunk PvPvE shooter Sand updates its name, commits to a full release in early 2026 over early access
Surfpunk is a four-player co-op extraction ARPG promising ‘thrilling action and chill vibes’
Nested Lands is a co-op survival RPG of greed, plague, mud, and madness entering early access January 23
Fallen Sword 2 bills itself as a ‘spiritual successor’ to the 2006 browser MMO
Past Fate studio apologizes for ‘rough’ launch, touts ‘significant improvements’ over the last week
Path of Exile 2 tackles bug fixes, adjustments, and quality-of-life changes this week
Co-op airship sandbox Echoes of Elysium has a new early access date: January 27
Project Gorgon upgrades its server, plans a second server if early access goes well
Chrono Odyssey addresses questions about visuals, performance, and character progression
Mu Dark Awakening is a new mobile version of the MMO with massive battles and AFK progression
Co-op survivalbox Astrobotanica’s new trailer teases gameplay and upgrades ahead of early access
Cozy survivalbox Aloft celebrates first year by announcing Gliders & Gales update for February 12
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen previews February’s Nightfall Crypt mini-dungeons
Eclipsia is an upcoming 2-D pixelart MMO where you can swap classes on the fly
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
Malingering2XKO: Closed beta
33 Immortals: Early access
Abyss: Early access
The Adventurer’s Domain Online: Early access
Adrullan Online Adventures: Open alpha concluded
Aero Tales Online: Early access
Aloft: Early access
Anvil Empires: Intermittent alpha
Apogea: Open testing
Arcane Waters: Early access
Arcany: Early alpha
Arcfall: Pre-alpha
ARK 2: Paid early access
Arkheron: Closed beta
Ascendant: Open testing
Ashes of Creation: Early access
Ashfall: Closed beta
ASKA: Early access
Astrobotanica: Early access on February 16th, 2026
Battlebit: Early access
Bellatores: Closed testing, beta rolling out in South Korea
Bellwright: Early access, developers of abandoned Last Oasis
Bitcraft: Early access
Book of Travels: Early access
Brighter Shores: Early access
Camelot Unchained: Closed beta, early access planned???
Chronicles of Elyria: Pre-alpha, again
Chrono Odyssey: Closed beta, launch planned for 2026 after latest delays/revamps
Cinderstone Online: Closed beta
City of Titans: Alpha
Cloudheim: Early access
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
Dragonwilds: Early access
Drakanatos: Closed test weekend through July 27th
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
Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore: Early access, 1.0 release planned for 2027
EVE Vanguard: Early access planned for summer 2026, open testing through October 2nd
Evercore Heroes: Ascension: Early access
Fellowship: Early access
Fractured: Conquest: Testing in 2026, full reboot of Fractured Online
FragPunk: Closed alpha, launch planned for March 6th
Frozen Flame: Early access
Havenhold: Closed beta
Homestead: Open alpha
Hytale: Early access
IfSunSets: Early access
Ilysia: Early access
Inferna: Early access
Kurtzpel: Closed beta
Legend of Ares: Open testing ahead of relaunch
Legendarium Online: Paid alpha access
Life is Feudal Arden: Open beta
Loftia: Still in testing
March of Giants: Closed alpha
Magic to Master: Somehow, Palpatine returned in early access
Marathon: Alpha testing
Monsters & Memories: Intermittent pre-alpha
Mortal Exodus: Closed testing
Neverness to Everness: Closed testing starts July 3rd
Nightingale: Early access
Nin Online: 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: Early access
Path of Exile 2: Early access December 6th
Perfect New World: Closed beta
Petit Planet: Closed beta starting November 7th
Pioner: Early access
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, launches January 28th
Project Loki: Closed beta
Project ST: Closed testing, open event ended
Prosperous Universe: Early access
Quinfall: Early access
Reaper Actual: Paid alpha
Return Alive: Closed beta
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: Raiders of Sophie: Release planned Q1 2026
Scars of Honor: Next test October 26th
Sea of Remnants: In testing, previews being shown
Seed: In pre-release, test run starts October 24th
Seekers of Skyveil: Early access
Ships at Sea: Early access
Sky: Children of Light: Open early access
Skygard Arena: Early access
Smite 2: Open beta
Solarpunk: Closed multiplayer testing starting soon as of September
Soulframe: Founders pack for sale
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
Spirit Crossing: Closed alpha, launch in 2026
Star Citizen: Backer alpha
Starbase: Early access open alpha
Stars Reach: Pre-alpha started
Steel Aces: Closed beta
Steel Hunters: Early access
Stormforge: Alpha testing through December 23rd
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: Open testing through July 9th, formerly known as Project F4E
Vindictus: Defying Fate: Test with multiplayer on June 8th
WalkScape: Closed beta until June 15th
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.
