Welcome again to a different roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer video games that you just’ve (in all probability) by no means heard of!
Tidal Nexus On-line: This underwater MMO-lite got here to our consideration due to a lone Reddit submit, which characterised it as a spin-off of 2008 browser sport referred to as Deepolis. Studio Riptide Interactive has it listed on Steam with a request button for take a look at entry however no ETA for launch. The web site declares that part 3 of playtesting will begin “quickly.”
Kaetram – We’ve talked about Kaetram as soon as earlier than in these roundups; it’s an open-source 2D MMO additionally forked from a browser sport referred to as BrowserQuest. Most lately, the sport launched a hardcore ironman mode. It’s nonetheless flagged in beta on the official website and early entry on Steam – with surprisingly optimistic critiques to this point.
IMAGINE – Lastly, we come to IMAGINE, a Shin Megami Tensei franchise MMO that spawned out of the RPG SMT NINE. As RPGsite chronicled, the sport was shuttled round studios and shut down in 2013 after six years on-line within the west; the final world server went offline in 2016. However apparently, followers have been working rogue servers, with the majority of them sunsetting. One was even sued by the unique firm, a narrative we lined ourselves again in 2022. However apparently, final yr one other group put collectively a server referred to as New Moon, claiming to have an unofficial license, so the sport lives on once more.
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