Earthrise
Earthrise is a sandbox MMORPG shooter built around survival in a ruined future, where crafting and scavenging matter as much as gunplay. Instead of locking you into a traditional class, it lets you shape a character through open-ended skill trees, encouraging experimentation with builds and playstyles as you explore a persistent world.
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Developer: SilentFuture Playerbase: TBA Type: Sandbox MMORPG Shooter Release Date: April 21, 2014 Shut Down Date: March 17, 2016 Pros: +Class-free skill progression with lots of build flexibility. +Deep crafting with modding and upgrades. +Large persistent 3D open world to roam. Cons: -Rough, glitchy visuals at times. -Weak audio work, including effects and voice acting. -Irregular update cadence and support. |
Earthrise Overview
Earthrise is a sandbox MMORPG shooter developed and published by SilentFuture. It takes place in a harsh, post-apocalyptic landscape where your character grows through skill investment rather than a fixed class selection, which means progression is largely driven by the choices you make and the roles you decide to pursue over time. That flexible approach pairs naturally with the game’s crafting focus, since much of your power and identity comes from equipment you create, maintain, and improve.
Crafting in Earthrise revolves around gathering raw materials and using blueprints to produce weapons, armor, and other items. Equipment is not treated as permanent, gear can wear down, and the loop of finding resources, producing replacements, and tuning your loadout is central to the sandbox feel. Items can also be modified and upgraded, letting dedicated crafters and tinkerers chase specific stat bonuses and tailor gear to different situations.
On the combat side, Earthrise blends story-oriented PvE content with PvP that leans on player skill and awareness. The world supports open PK and friendly fire, so fights can be tense and mistakes are punished, especially when groups clash or when you run into hostile players while traveling. Beyond the core gameplay, the game also includes practical MMO features like clans, in-game mail, and a system of vehicles and mounts for covering long distances.
Earthrise Key Features:
- Open Skill Progression – build your character through broad, detailed skill trees without being forced into a rigid class template.
- Player-Driven Crafting – produce weapons, armor, and items from materials and blueprints, then customize gear through mods and upgrades for varied stat outcomes.
- Persistent 3D Open World – travel through a large environment with distinct regions and terrain types, designed for long-term exploration and conflict.
- Quest Chains and Lore – take on PvE chains that provide direction, introduce key locations, and reveal more of the setting’s background.
- Vehicles for Traversal – use civilian and military-style rides to move faster across the world and reduce downtime between hotspots.
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Earthrise Review
Earthrise aims for a specific niche: a shooter-flavored MMORPG where the sandbox systems, especially crafting and character building, are the main attraction. The strongest part of its design is how those systems interlock. When progression is class-free, the game naturally rewards players who plan their skill investments around the gear they want to produce or the role they want to play in a group. It encourages experimentation, and it can be satisfying to gradually shape a character that feels self-made rather than pre-defined.
The crafting loop is also where the game’s identity is clearest. Having equipment that can decay pushes you to stay engaged with gathering and production, and it gives weight to your inventory and preparation. Modding and upgrades add another layer, since you are not only making gear, you are refining it to better fit your build or to respond to what the world is throwing at you. Players who enjoy the “workbench” side of sandbox MMOs will likely find this aspect more compelling than the questing itself.
Combat has an edge thanks to its PvP rules. Open-world PK and friendly fire create genuine risk, and that tension can make travel and resource runs feel meaningful. At its best, Earthrise produces the kind of emergent moments that sandbox fans look for: unexpected skirmishes, improvised alliances, and the constant question of whether an encounter is safe. The downside is that this style of PvP can also be punishing for newcomers, especially when gear investment and maintenance are part of the equation.
Where Earthrise struggles is in overall polish and consistency. The presentation can feel rough, with visuals that can be buggy and audio work that does not always match the ambition of the setting. Even more impactful is the sense of uneven support, since sporadic updates make it harder for an MMO to build momentum or maintain trust. In a genre where stability and iteration matter, those issues can overshadow the game’s more interesting ideas.
Overall, Earthrise is easiest to recommend in retrospect as a notable attempt at a classless, crafting-heavy shooter MMO, one that clearly wanted to lean into player agency and a dangerous world. If you value flexible character progression and hands-on gear creation, its design choices are worth understanding, even if the execution and long-term support ultimately limited what it could become.
Earthrise Links
Earthrise Official Site
Earthrise Facebook Page
Earthrise Official Blog
Earthrise Steam Greenlight
Earthrise Requirements
Minimum PC Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 7
CPU: 2 GHz (Core 2 Duo)
Video Card: 256 MB VRAM supporting shader model v3.0
RAM: 2048 MB
Hard Disk Space: 10 GB available space
Recommended PC Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 7
CPU: 2 GHz (Core 2 Duo) or better
Video Card: 256 MB VRAM supporting shader model v3.0 or better
RAM: 2048 MB or better
Hard Disk Space: 10 GB available space
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Earthrise Additional Information
Developer(s): Masthead Studios, SilentFuture
Publisher(s): SilentFuture
Game Engine: Earthrise Game Engine
Open Alpha Release Date: April 21, 2014
Steam Greenlight: November 23, 2015
Release Date: December 2015
Shut Down Date: March 17, 2016
Development History / Background:
Earthrise began as a project from the Bulgarian studio Masthead Studios, with Iceberg Interactive handling publishing in its earliest release. The game first launched in February 2011, but after an initial period of testing and operation, the servers were taken offline in February 2012. In May of that same year, the rights were acquired by SilentFuture, a German company that then took over development and publishing.
Under SilentFuture, Earthrise returned to testing with closed alpha activity appearing toward the end of 2012. Development afterward was uneven, marked by stretches of quiet and intermittent updates that made it difficult to track long-term direction. Later, in December 2015, the game surfaced on Valve’s Steam Greenlight. Not long after, support effectively ended, and the project was abandoned with a shut down date of March 17, 2016.