Category: Previews

Hytale

Hytale is an upcoming fantasy sandbox MMO built around block-based creativity and shared adventures. It aims to blend the freedom of building and modding with RPG-style exploration, giving players tools to craft everything from cozy homes and farms to full custom servers with their own rules and minigames.

Publisher: Riot Games
Playerbase: TBD
Type: Sandbox MMO
Release Date: 2023 (planned)
Pros: +Build and reshape terrain freely. +Robust creation and scripting tools. +Supports both competitive and co-op play. +RPG-style progression and adventure hooks.
Cons: -Release timing has slipped before. -Visuals may feel a bit behind newer titles.

Mabinogi Mobile

Mabinogi Mobile is an upcoming anime styled MMORPG made specifically for smartphones. Like the long-running PC MMORPG that inspired it, the mobile edition plans to emphasize social gameplay and an expansive set of life skills—gathering, crafting, hunting, and even writing and performing your own music.

Publisher: Nexon
Playerbase: TBD
Type: Anime MMORPG
PvP: TBD
Release Date: 2018
Pros: +Keeps the original’s charming look and soundtrack. +Deep set of life skills and player focused social activities. +A true MMORPG scope with dungeons, bosses, and other cooperative content.
Cons: -Still short on concrete details. -No confirmed Western release. -Portrait orientation can leave unused space on the display.

Fractured

Fractured is an in-development open world sandbox MMORPG that aims to blend skill-based, action-oriented combat with a persistent world where players can meaningfully change the environment. The pitch focuses on player-driven progression through exploration, gathering, crafting, trade, and settlement building, whether you prefer to carve out a home with a guild or strike out alone.

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Publisher: Dynamight Studios
Playerbase: TBD
Type: Sandbox MMORPG
PvP: TBD
Release Date: TBA
Pros: +Highly interactive world systems. +Robust gathering, crafting, and trading focus. +Action-first combat built around player execution.
Cons: -Details are still limited while the game remains in development.

Ship Of Heroes

Ship Of Heroes is an MMORPG positioned as a spiritual successor to City of Heroes, letting you design a custom superhero and take the fight to villains aboard a massive starship, the Heroship Justice, as it journeys from destination to destination across space.

Publisher: Heroic Games
Playerbase: TBD
Type: MMORPG
Release Date: TBA
Pros: +A clear City of Heroes-inspired direction. +Big-scope ideas for exploration and progression. +Four distinct archetype roles.
Cons: -Many details are still unconfirmed and hard to evaluate.

Ashes of Creation

Ashes of Creation is an upcoming fantasy MMORPG centered on a world that reacts to its players, where community actions can elevate settlements from tiny encampments to bustling cities. Supporting that shifting world state, it targets open-world PvP, major guild-versus-guild clashes, and a trade-driven economy in which caravans and valuable resource routes become natural hotspots for teamwork and rivalry.

Publisher: Intrepid Studios
Type: MMORPG
Release Date: TBA
Pros: +Massive world built for PvP and player-driven conflict. +Ambitious systems with uncommon MMO ideas.
Cons: -Concrete details are still limited.

Tree of Savior Mobile Remake

Tree of Savior Mobile Remake is an upcoming fantasy MMORPG for phones and tablets that adapts the PC experience for touch-friendly play. You begin by choosing one of four core archetypes—Archer, Swordsman, Cleric, or Wizard—then set off into a vibrant world centered on questing, co-op parties, and boss-driven raids.

Publisher: Nexon
Playerbase: TBD
Type: Mobile MMORPG
Release Date: TBA
Pros: +Easy-to-read interface that feels smooth on mobile. +Four starter classes with distinct roles. +Built-in photo mode with emotes for screenshots.
Cons: -Details are still scarce. -No announced Western release timing. -No cross-play support between PC and mobile versions.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is a high fantasy MMORPG in development that aims to bring back a more social, group-focused style of online adventuring. It places players in a dangerous open world where preparation, teamwork, and learning the land matter, as much as gear or levels.

Publisher: Visionary Realms
Type: MMORPG
Release Date: TBA
PvP: Open World
Pros: +Strong focus on party play and social reliance. +World systems and events designed to feel reactive. +Wide selection of races and classes.
Cons: -Many details are still unknown and subject to change.

Valiance Online

Valiance Online is an in-development superhero MMORPG built around player agency, where the community’s actions help shape the long-term state of San Cielo. Instead of locking you into a purely heroic or villainous mold, it encourages you to define your own morality, whether that means protecting citizens, chasing personal power, or operating in the gray area between the two.

Publisher: SilverHelm Studios
Type: MMORPG
PvP: Duels / Arena / Battlegrounds
Release Date: TBA
Pros: +Living, persistent city that reacts to players. +Large selection of superpowers to mix and match. +Many archetypes that support different playstyles.
Cons: -Still very early in production. -No launch window announced. -Visuals look dated compared to modern MMOs.

Saga of Lucimia

Saga of Lucimia is an in-development high-fantasy MMORPG built around cooperative PvE. The core premise is simple and uncompromising, once you step beyond the safety of a settlement, the wilderness is meant to overwhelm lone adventurers. To make meaningful progress you are expected to assemble a 4-player or 8-player group and tackle the world as a team, much more in the spirit of tabletop campaigns than modern theme park questing.

Publisher: Stormhaven Studios
Playerbase: TBD
Type: MMORPG
Release Date: TBA
Pros: +Designed for party play. +Progression built around skills. +World and narrative drawn from a D&D-inspired novel series. +Adventure-focused difficulty and pacing.
Cons: -No solo questing. -No PvP.

Star Citizen

Star Citizen sits in a strange but fascinating space between MMO, space sim, and shooter. It aims to deliver dogfighting, trading, and on-foot FPS action in one persistent sci-fi universe. It is buy-to-play rather than subscription based, which makes the entry model simple even if the larger project is still evolving.

Publisher: Cloud Imperium Games
Playerbase: TBD
Type: MMO
Release Date: 2072 (estimate)
Pros: +Blends on-foot FPS with space sim style flying. +Heavily shaped by players and emergent activity. +Development is unusually open and community funded.
Cons: -No locked-in launch window.