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10 Best Indie MMOs To Play In 2023 And Beyond | MMORPG.com
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10 Best Indie MMOs To Play In 2023 And Beyond | MMORPG.com
With new AAA MMORPGs failing to meet players' expectations and older MMOs slowly riding off into the sunset, what's an MMO fanatic to do? Turn to the innovation and uniqueness that only indie developers are willing to take a chance on. Here are 10 of the best indie MMOs you can play in 2023, and a few we're hoping to see come this year and beyond.
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May have to check it out again. Definitely a throwback kind of game.
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Fractured Onlline has already been closed down for various reason and is/was total failure/scam.
AoC is just another money grabbing sham too imo, as in it cost 750 dollars to get access to "pre-alpha" and they have a once month chance to play it for each month in 2023.
How do these rank in top ten playable games ?
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I haven't seen anywhere that Fractured Online has already closed down. Can you please provide a source for this? As for it being a scam, FO has been in a playable state for quite a while now and the devs have made significant updates as recently as a couple months ago. I will admit that there is still a lot of work to be done on the game, but that can be said for most indie MMOs.
You can get access to AoC's upcoming Alpha 2 for $250. That isn't chump change, but if the team really wanted to cash in they could offer lower prices to bring in the mildly curious.
Choosing either of these games for this list could be considered questionable, but the indie MMO space is filled with instability and failures. At this point in time, I believe both of these games will offer some good gaming in 2023 and beyond. I believe Fractured Online will recover from their third-party issues sooner rather than later, and I also believe AoC will hold their Alpha 2 in the first half of the year and assuming it goes well Beta will follow.
If I'm wrong, the list can and will be updated.
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FO is no longer available on steam and instead of a game you get this message
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1426050/view/3609103752600341886
This news was also already covered by this very site not long ago..
Yes, that is correct. The game is still playable until January 31st for anyone who already owns it. And trouble with a 3rd party platform is not a scam, it's trouble with a 3rd party platform. Before partnering with Gamigo, FO was on different servers. I have no reason to believe that it can't do that again. I'm not sure how that makes it a failure/scam. If you don't like it, that's cool. If you think it's a scam, you could be right. But saying that it's a scam/failure because of the issues it is having is reaching.
I agree that $250 is more than I'm willing to spend for an alpha. I was just replying to the statement that it is a scam because of the price of the pre-alpha.
The news was that it is going back to closed development, as was mentioned in the first paragraph of the statement you linked to.
The game isn't closed down.
For Zenith sure.. the entire genrew though.. nah man, you cant ride a whole genre on a early access game from an indie studio. Everything else though for sure. Game was great but lacked content. Really fun and the scope of a mmo in vr is beyond words in certain aspects but a lack of content in vr is the same as a regular game. Doesnt matter how great things feel, if theres nothing to do then soon the world will be empty.
New World may look good, but the game feels hollow and lacks the mysticism of a fantasy MMO. I really wanted to like it and have about a hundred hours into it, but it just lacked something that made me want to keep logging in.
I'm kinda shocked Ilysia didn't make the list. It looks pretty good and it's a VR MMO which I think is the future of MMOs.
You have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to Ashes of Creation lol. It never cost $750 to get access to alpha 1, there were multiple packages from KS, Summer sale, and Intrepid packs, varried, but Alpha 1 cost $450-$500 dollars to access (and KS backers at this level never have to pay sub). Alpha 0 was chosen players, no one paid for alpha 0. To get access to Alpha 2 (when it becomes available) is around $250. I have no idea where you're coming up with players have the chance to play each month, this is completely false. The game development is between A1 and A2, the only testers playing it (and not once a month) would be the developers in house testing and Phoenix Initiatives could possibly be playing, but we have no fact on that since it'd be completely under NDA. Your statements are completely inaccurate.
Personally I wouldn't have even mentioned half of these. I get that you included 2023 and beyond but I wouldn't put anything on a best of list that I couldn't play right now for starters. Just seems like filler.
Really it boils down to Project Gorgon and Albion Online for me. Temtem if you like pokemon, I don't so... those are the only two games I would recommend from this list.
Broken Ranks looked like it should have just been a single player game.
Mad World might be fun when it comes out but looks more like an ARPG to me.
Ashes of Creation looks good but has some controversy around it like that battle royal junk they did and it has been on lists for years, whenever it comes out.
City of Titans and Ship of Heroes are both in the same boat and they need to at least be better than City of Heroes Homecoming. Ship of Heroes looks yikes imho. Good luck there.
Prosperous Universe trailer just made me want to play Stellaris, Homeworld or Sins of a Solar Empire. That trailer was about as exciting as a spreadsheet.
The Zenith VR one is a no go since I get motion sickness. Even the trailer made me go ugh.
Fractured Online was already mentioned and looks like it's in some trouble with that steam link.
All in all not an overly inspiring list. Makes me think of that the MMORPG genre is in trouble thread tbh.
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