Now that 2017 has arrived we can start getting hyped for those MMOs that announced a release this year (or the ones that announced a release late last year and completely overshot the mark...) and we have to say there's a fantastically diverse list of titles coming out that we just can't wait to get our hands on. Whilst fantasy MMORPGs seem to be as popular as ever there are a couple of little gems in our list that we're definitely looking forward to, but let us know in the comments below if there's any MMOs coming out this year that you think we missed off!
ESCAPE FROM TARKOV
A story-driven first person action RPG with MMO elements, set in the war-torn city of Tarkov players step into the shoes of a mercenary trying to make their way out of this isolated hell hole sealed off from the outside world, where powerful companies and government bodies are in place to ensure that no one leaves.
The game features a story-driven scenario portion to the game, solo and multiplayer raids, numerous PVE locations from the urban streets of Tarkov to the regions wilderness outskirts. Combat and survival are the name of the game, managing health and physical injuries with hazardous environments, interactive objects, day and night cycles and vision effects all of which add to the realism of this solo play meets MMO title.
REVELATION ONLINE
Soon to be published in the west by My.com Revelation Online is a stunning MMORPG with an asian-fantasy style where players can explore a huge open world in its stunning visual glory; scale huge mountains, marvel at open fields and vistas, become acquainted with sprawling cities and feel what it's like to travel the massive world without any loading screens.
With its fast action combat players are forced to think tactically and react quickly when facing AI and player opponents, with telegraphic abilities players need to actively dodge skill shots that come at breakneck speeds. Travel across the beautiful realm on foot, by mount or even fly through the air to reach the highest peaks; and even battle with opponents in aerial combat!
CHRONICLES OF ELYRIA
A dynamic fantasy MMORPG players will have a true RPG experience where their own character will be born, age and die allowing them to constantly plan ahead and put in place a legacy that their future characters will continue. Finite resources, closed player run economy, unique single-play quests and world spanning events will allow players to feel what it is like to be part of a living world.
When players first create their character they will start at age 12, 15 or 18, where their age defines their play style and their immediate objectives; as they age, meet a partner and have their own children they will pass on genetic and family traits. The Soulborn Engine creates dynamic personalized quests for each player with their own unique triggers that the player may or may not activate; with different choices and in game actions a players story will begin to form that is personal to them alone.
WORLDS ADRIFT
A fantasy-steampunk era MMORPG of flying ships and a broken world of explorable continents and procedurally generated floating islands where the persistent is left as the players interact with it; defeat enemy ships and their wreckages will remain there for all to loot until they rust away.
Players can work together to craft their own ships where their choices will determine the ships own proficiency and capability in combat, amass a crew where they can acquire and share equipment, create an alliance to explore the most dangerous parts of the world and adventure across an open sandbox to accumulate skill and knowledge by recovering ancient artefacts.
CROSSOUT
Crossout sees players going head to head in a Mad Max style post-apocalyptic world where roaming factions fight each other for territory and the chance to scavenge what few resource remain in the fallen world. A PVP orientated team based arena game in which players battle with weapon mounted vehicles through various maps and game modes to earn rank and rewards.
Players will be able to build their battle-vehicles from the ground up, designing the shape and structure of their vehicle, from trikes, vans, tanks and trucks and mount them with all manner of components, armor, weapons and tech to help them in combat. With each individually attached component so too can they be individually destroyed when in battle leaving vehicles unarmed, disabled and destroyed!
CROWFALL
Another fantasy-themed MMORPG throwing together all types of genre to make a politically driven "throne war simulator" that focuses on PVP based conflict, lacking traditional PVE dungeons, quests and raids, there are hundreds of monsters that litter the world but they are there to enhance the threat of PVP and general survival in the world as well as being carriers of loot. Accessible territory can be depend on how much control players have over territory won and lost in the campaigns, each campaign having different rulesets and are open to different types of players such as Guild v Guild, Factions, Player Monarchies and Free For All.
With 13 available archetype classes, from classic Assassin, Ranger, Druid and Templar the game explores unique characters such as Forgemaster and Myrmidon; progression is a skill over time element where players do not simply gain generic level up XP from killing things and instead advance with a passive skill system that advances over time. Players can own their own land and even instanced kingdom that they expand and upgrade, players can make their kingdoms private or open to the public, allowing them to use your crafting stations and shops.
BLESS
A free to play Korean MMORPG once more stepping into the realms of medieval fantasy, Bless is another stunningly designed title developed on Unreal Engine 3 that sees the ongoing story of a decade-long war involving two major factions and the players being swept up by these events. With PVE elements it is the PVP faction wars that make the game shine, a huge world to be contested by the Union or the Empire and the players’ involvement with it. An advanced political system will see guilds, alliances and the entire faction battling to take new territories and expand their lands in the ever shifting border brought on by the war.
The game features ten different races divided between the two factions, and eight traditional classes to customize, acquire gear and items of power to help you in your adventure and unlock over 800 different collectible pets.
VALIANCE ONLINE
In the future mankind has evolved, both genetically and technologically, super powers and cybernetic abilities have become a staple of the 22nd century and "super crime" is on the rise where for every superhero that rises to combat it, as many villains rise with them to sew more chaos into the world.
Choose your role as either a hero or villain, customize their look with hundreds of customizable options, choose various class skillsets and unlock the power of your classic super archtype; battle across a quest driven city that emphasis story, roleplaying, PVE and of course PVP as the battle for San Cielo rages on in the streets.
SEA OF THIEVES
An MMORPG meets pirate/naval war simulator where players are a pirate and part of a crew (either your own or grouped up with other players) able to sail around the ocean doing pirate things. The game absolutely relies on multiplayer content, on a ship you are unable to perform every action with different stations needing to be filled such as someone being at the wheel to steer the ship, but requiring someone to navigate as the sail blocks your vision, and other players on individual cannons to fire at other players' ships.
With fairly sandbox gameplay players can roam the seas doing what they like; completing quests, hunting down rival players to destroy their ship from afar or board them, kill the crew and loot their treasure chests. With stunning cartoony graphics and impressive ocean physics you can see as your ship is thrown up and down in the waves, affecting your aiming, and just waiting for someone to accidentally go overboard!
PANTHEON: RISE OF THE FALLEN
A high-fantasy MMORPG with nine available races, twelve different classes, and a huge open world to explore, it focuses on group-oriented content where players will frequently be put together to overcome many of the games challenges, describing itself as "intensely social". Combat requires preparation and awareness, reacting quickly to NPCs as well as knowing your role in a group and filling it, though with the option to customize a class by bonding with spirits and relics of fallen warriors, players can specialize their roles even further.
With a take back to older MMORPGs players will find the content considerably more difficult than more modern MMOs, further enhancing the need to band together with other players, with more meaningful penalties for death, open world sandbox exploration, and in general a more realistic gameplay where individual players can have a greater impact on the world.
SHARDS ONLINE
A fantasy MMORPG where players can roam the world seeking out their own adventure and content in a world where every item has a purpose, whether a random quest item that is found, a useful resource for crafting, decoration to put in your player home or even animals that can be tamed.
Characters use a skill based progression system with no classes, instead offering players 27 skills, over 60 active abilities and hundreds of items that all define how a player can handle themselves in combat, whether fighting PVE enemies in the dangerous Catacombs dungeons, or real players in PVP in the open world with a fully function criminal system. The developers have even gone so far as to allow the integration of player run shards/servers that can be modded and run by the owners themselves.
DARK AND LIGHT
A fantasy survival RPG, players must explore and live off the vast land, divided into numerous biomes from snow capped mountains, wild forests, desert landscapes to bustling cities, all designed with the Unreal Engine 4 to provide a stunningly realistic world. The world is primarily seamless with few loading screens, but provides some instanced PVE and PVP areas.
Adventuring across the absolutely massive map is the main part of the experience, stocking up on food to ensure hunger doesn't begin to slow down your character, finding shelter during the night cycle as enemies grow stronger (and even stronger during an eclipse), and even having to compete with weather and seasons. Throw in player controlled cities, taming of creatures and evolving them into pets, NPC monsters that will hunt and kill players then store their loot in their lair for other players to claim, it promises a truly immersive player experience.
CONAN EXILES
Another survival MMO set in the world created by Robert E. Howard featuring Conan the Barbarian, Conan Exiles sees players as exiles in the barbaric wastelands left to die, it is each players individual goal to rise from the dust, survive and build their own legacy. Players will have to compete with scouring sandstorms, starvation and dehydration, insanity and corruption, and also some of the most dangerous monsters the realm has to offer.
As a survival game, players will have to gather and harvest their own resources, craft tools and weapons, then can begin constructing their own homes, settlements and even cities. For those that survive and create they will have compete with other survivors that wish to take from them and wage war, calling upon their gods and summoning colossal sized avatars into the world and watching as they destroy everything their enemies have made.
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