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End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond

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As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...

Whatever happened to multiplayer voxel RPG Cube World and its successor, Cube World Omega?

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Some of you may recall -- or even be fans of -- a cute indie voxel RPG known as Cube World. This was a...

Monsters & Memories looks back at end-of-year testing, updates engine, models, and classes

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While we're in the early part of January 2025, Monsters & Memories developer Niche Worlds Cult is looking back at developments made in November...

Villagers and Heroes releases Raids Season 9 and posts its 2025 roadmap

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Don't sleep on Villagers and Heroes this winter if you're in the mood for a solid indie MMO with a host of features (including...

LOTRO Legendarium: Digging into LOTRO’s 2025 roadmap and new server panic

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There's nothing like being far away from home on a late-December vacation only to get the notice that, hey, Lord of the Rings Online...

Eight-year-old indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes sets a Q2 2025 launch window

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Just a few weeks ago, we noted that it appeared Ship of Heroes' release plans had continued shifting around (at one point, it was...

Chronicles of Elyria dev claims development is ‘progressing steadily,’ but no, you can’t see it

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When last we heard from Chronicles of Elyria, Soulbound Studio's Jeromy Walsh explained that the company was once again struggling financially and that he...

Oddball indie MMORPG Spire Horizon Online makes it to its full launch

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October was a month full of very random MMO, MMORPG, and multiplayer games during the Steam Next Fest happening that month, but we became...

Brighter Shores zeroes in on improving quality-of-life across its recent and upcoming patches

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Brighter Shores players asked for it, and boy howdy are they getting it: The early access indie MMORPG has deployed a wide swath of...

Eternal Tombs celebrates 5000 testers for the year, readies more new zones for early 2025

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Eternal Tombs, the developing sandbox MMORPG that leans on the use of GMs to launch in-game events, is wrapping up what it's calling a...

MMO Hype Train: Into the Echo and the wish for a time travel MMO

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Are there any MMO projects that you suspect only you remember and care about -- but everyone else has forgotten? I feel that way...

Monsters & Memories’ creative director streams love for EverCraft Online

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Who says that MMO studios and developers only care about their own games and are fiercely territorial? Belaying that mindset is Monsters & Memories'...

Fractured hashes out its upcoming seasonal rewards format and announces alliance mechanics

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As we've been covering, indie MMORPG sandbox Fractured is heading down the free-to-play path come November 20th, and alongside that relaunch will be the...

Not So Massively: ZeroSpace is the last hope for multiplayer RTS fans

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All right, that headline is a bit of hyperbole, but it does reflect how I'm feeling right now. A bit over a year ago, I...

Massively Overthinking: Are we over early access MMOs and the ‘early access trap’ yet?

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A few weeks back, Shadow's Kiss, a Kickstarted vampire MMORPG that probably most of our readers never even knew about, threw in the towel,...

Sil and the Fading World is an upcoming ARPG that pits solo players against MMO raid bosses

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We obviously are about MMORPGs, MMOs, and multiplayer gaming here at MOP, but as we've demonstrated before, we're not averse to highlighting games that...

Project Friendship, Spry Fox’s new cozy MMO, just opened tester signups

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Way back in 2021, we first caught wind that indie developer Spry Fox was hiring for a new "non-violent" MMO, essentially a cozy game....

Enter to win a Predecessor currency bundle for heroes and skins, courtesy of Omeda

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It's been a few weeks since we last checked in on Predecessor, the indie MOBA that is one in a long line of MOBAs...
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Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon adds horse breeding and instanced guild halls in latest update

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Do you know how outlandish a feature has to be before the devs of Project Gorgon have to call it outlandish? It's outlandish indeed,...

Co-op cozy game My Time at Evershine funded on Kickstarter in just 35 minutes

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Last week, MOP's Chris took a look at My Time at Evershine, the latest multiplayer cozy game from Pathea Games, best known for My...

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