social mmo
Social First’s ‘social cross-platform MMO’ Nexus Station is officially announced
Back in August we got wind of a new Finnish game studio called Social First and its plans to create a "cross-platform social MMO";...
Book of Travels changes inventory management to a volume system, and players are not pleased
Walking around in the tiny multiplayer online title of Book of Travels will inevitably find players cramming lots of stuff into their backpacks. As...
Finnish game studio Social First secures $4.2M in funding for a ‘cross-platform social MMO’
At first blush, the announcement that's the source for this story looks like a corporate word salad bar, but once you cut through all...
Colony and life sim MMO Polity highlights updates and seeks player feedback after a month of full release
Do you remember Polity? It's been some time since this game crossed our radar. We first reported on this social life and society sim...
Habbo Hotel releases a throwback 2005-era version of the social MMO called Habbo Hotel Origins
If you've suddenly got a jonesing to experience the isometric pixelated nostalgia of the social MMO Habbo Hotel, you've got options. There's the normal...
The Crew Motorfest and Sky Children of the Light confirm arrivals to Steam in April
One's a multiplayer racing open world-ish title, the other is a cute and emotive social multiplayer game, yet both The Crew Motorfest and Sky:...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Flatty, Starbreak, Discovery Freelancer
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you’ve (probably) never heard of! This time around, we're pretty much going...
Pixadom is an indie 2-D pixel art MMORPG that focuses on social gameplay
The MMORPG subreddit is once again gracing genre followers with another indie game introduction. This time it's Pixadom, an in-development cutesy and colorful 2-D...
First impressions: Palia is a half-baked project that could rise to be a masterpiece
For a reviewer, there is nothing more frustrating than something that is equal parts amazing and terrible. All awesome? That's an easy, glowing recommendation....
Multiplayer game Sky Children of the Light unveils plans for MMO-sized social hub
While Sky: Children of the Light looks like a wonderfully bright and emotion-filled piece of gaming, it also falls solely into the category of...
Palia promises discoverable lore and questlines that sees players ‘navigate negative emotional experiences’
The month of January hasn't seen any major developmental announcements from Palia, the self-described "cozy community sim MMO." That said, there have been a...
Social life sim MMO Polity plans 2022 launch as closed beta marches on
Last spring, we covered a new-to-us MMO called Polity by Jib Games. It's essentially a Turkish indie social game that borrows ideas from The...
Project X is a mobile ‘social sandbox MMO’ full of resource gathering and house building in closed beta
This one will need a little bit of context because the name Project X carries a tiny bit of history here. Back in 2018...
Massively Overthinking: Making MMOs more social from the inside out
This week's Massively Overthinking topic from an anonymous Kickstarter donor asks us to set aside our criticisms of the social environment of MMOs and...
