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Black Desert Online: Remastered

Black Desert Online is an ambitious sandbox MMORPG for the PC with a wide variety of features. As of 2018 it became “Black Desert Online: Remastered with a massive graphics, sound, and gameplay overhaul. If you thought you’d played Black Desert Online before, look again.

Business Model: Retail Purchase with optional “Value Pack” premium subscription.

Microtransactions: Yes – Players may buy additional inventory slots, additional storage slots, increased weight limit, pets, xp boosts, currency boosts, resource gathering boosts, and a variety of other convenience and cosmetic benefits.

Key Features:

Classes: Archer, Lahn, Mystic, Striker, Dark Knight, Warrior, Ranger, Sorceress, Berserker, Tamer, Valkyrie, Kunoichi, Ninja, Witch, Wizard, Musa, and Maehwa, with more coming soon!

Sandbox Style play: Imagination is your only limit. Travel the world, trade in the city, or seek out new challenges and new experiences!

Multiple systems: Mounted combat, parkour, weather, time, and more await players. Each of these functions has a different effect for every character.

Open World: Seamless gameplay in a large world is the name of the game in Black Desert. Travel across the globe, without ever seeing a loading screen.

Oceanic Battles: Sail the high seas, with extreme prejudice.

Aura Kingdom

Aura Kingdom is a 3D massive multiplayer online role-playing game taking place in a vibrant anime-style world packed with incredible creatures both to fight and capture. Fulfill your duty as one of the gifted Envoys of Gaia and protect your realm from all harm.

Business Model: Free-to-Play

Microtransactions: Yes, there are optional in-game purchases available.

Key Features:

Interactive Companions: Far more than simple pets, Eidolons can be evolved, utilize incredible combo attacks, and talk about past exploits.

Adaptable: A wide variety of skills are available at your command, easily changed to fit any situation.

Fluid and Fast-Paced Combat: Glide through the environment and outmaneuver enemies to survive dynamic attacks.

Adventure Time: Face down titanic bosses, delve deep into exotic dungeons, and climb massive towers for gold and glory.

New Creations: Explore your class options with eleven unique starting options and even more of a selection once you hit level forty and unlock subclassing.

Tanki Online

Tanki Online is a free-to-play online multiplayer vehicular-shooter featuring hectic mini tank warfare developed by AlternativaPlatform for PC and Mac. Show off your incredible customization prowess by mixing and matching your personal panzer with a suite of options including guns, hulls, and protect modules. Do whatever it takes to blow the enemy away with explosive weaponry while also not dying yourself.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Crystals, loot boxes, cosmetics.

Key Features:

Classic game modes: Battle against others in deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag or capture point modes

Customization: Tweak out your tank with various turrents, hulls, paints and more.

Made using Adobe Flash: With outstanding use of flash programming, Tanki Online can be played on just about any internet web browser.

Wakfu

Wakfu is a 2.5D isometric MMORPG with turn based combat.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – In game currency, Ogrines, Boosters, restricted races, cosmetics

Key Features:

Customizable Characters: Customizable Characters featuring many unique classes, various occupations, and deep character progression.

Tactical Gameplay: Turn-based combat where strategy and planning is king.

Evolving Ecosystem : The player’s actions will affect the world around them, not only for themselves, but for other players.

Full Political System: Complete with elections, taxes, and governors adding a deep and engaging world beyond the base combat system.

Requiem

Requiem is a free to play massively multiplayer online game for mature audiences that will immerse you into a dark world of bloodshed devastated by generations of scientific and magical abuse. You’ll need to fight against the grotesque monsters that stalk the cursed land, and band together with your allies to survive against the stronger, bloodthirsty creatures that only prowl at night. Use a wide selection of weapons and the mysterious powers of Beast Possession to strike down your enemies and destroy evil. Requiem Online offers a refreshingly new approach to the MMOPRG genre with its grim, dark atmosphere and tense, blood splattering action.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Players may purchase performance enhancing and transportation items, among others.

Key Features:

Face your Worst Nightmares: Even the most experienced players will cringe when darkness falls in the world of Requiem. The bloodthirsty Nightmare Monsters that appear at night will ravage the strongest parties if they are not adequately prepared for battle.

Weapon Enhancements: Players can upgrade, customize, or create new items to suit their combat styles and battle prowess with several different item enhancement systems.

Beast Possession System: Unleash the incredible power of the beast within by transforming into an enormous, ferocious creature. Level-up your Possession Beasts to equip your monstrous transformations with a variety of deadly skills and abilities to maximize your destructive potential.

Epic Player-Versus-Player (PvP) Battles: Battle your foes on an enormous scale on an 8-vs-8, 16-vs-16, 32-vs-32, or colossal 96-vs-96 battlefield. The victors will be rewarded with special items that are key to obtaining the rarest weapons and armor!

DNA System: Boost your character strengths and minimize their weaknesses by reorganizing their DNA as you see fit. Having full control over their evolution leads to a wide variety of character builds that share the same class and race.

Group Zones: Jump over obstacles, collect key items, and complete other challenges to pass through locked areas as you venture in a group to discover what terror lies before you. These areas are designed especially for groups of players to experience an intense series of battles with great rewards.

Expansions:

Bloodymare: Increase level cap. New content.

Rise of the Reaver: Increase level cap. New content.

Eve Online

EVE Online is a free-to-play sci-fi MMO available on Steam for PC and Mac that is set in a science-fiction based, persistent universe. Players take the role of spaceship pilots seeking fame, fortune, and adventure in a huge, complex, exciting, and sometimes hostile galaxy. When EVE was released in May 2003, about half of these systems were available for exploration, enabling players to more easily establish “hot spots” – centralized locations for trade, commerce and combat – based on their activities. As the population in EVE grows, more systems are made available to avoid overcrowding.

Business Model: Limited Free to Play with Premium “Omega Upgrade” subscription

Microtransactions: Yes – Premium access, cosmetics, skill point reallocation items, and the ability to learn skills past a set limit or have multiple characters.

Key Features:

Choose Your PvP Playstyle: Join up with an alliance or faction or live as a pirate, fighting only with your interests at heart.

Star Gate Exploration: Utilize the star gate network to travel to over 5000 different systems. You never know what might await you on the other side!

Ship Customization: Select your ship from hundreds of different models, each of which can be customized to your liking. Find your perfect ship to take over galaxies with!

Expansions:

EVE Online has a long history of updates and patches. Check them out here.

EverQuest 2

Featuring breathtaking graphics and a vast, beautiful game world to explore, EverQuest II sets new standards in graphical realism as players are immersed in the game’s powerful epic storyline with thousands of players online.

Set 500 years after EverQuest, EverQuest II is a new and different game experience in a world marred by a series of massive cataclysms. Players enter this world by creating their own unique character from 16 races and 24 classes, using a powerful customization system for unprecedented player individuality. Players will encounter hundreds of creatures as they travel across the majestic landscape of rolling hills, barren deserts, dense forests, and bustling cities. Thousands of new items, hundreds of new spells, and unparalleled adventures await all who enter the world of EverQuest II.

Second Life

Second Life is a free-to-play casual simulation MMO developed by Linden Lab for PC, Mac, and Linux. Second Life does not have classes, any particular objectives, or any traditional MMORPG mechanics. Instead, the main draw of Second Life is the enabling of user creativity, avatar customization, and socializing (often through roleplaying). The game is a massive, sandbox-like environment where other residents (players) have created a majority of the game’s content and zones you can travel
to. Those looking for a game they can truly get lost in will find themselves right at home in Second Life’s practically limitless world.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – See Marketplaces in Features below.

Key Features:

Roleplay: Second Life gives you the chance to truly become whoever you want, whether it be a pirate, club owner, zombie fighter, or anything else entirely!

Creation: Creation is a key component of Second Life! If you can imagine it, you can create it. Animations, scripting software, 3D models, clothing, vehicles, and skin textures are just the beginning of what you have the tools to whip up.

Marketplaces: Sell your creations for Lindens in one of many marketplaces throughout the world. These Lindens hold a real world value and can be exchanged for US Dollars on the game’s official website.

Maplestory

With over 100 million accounts created, Maplestory is one of the most played free-to-play MMORPG of all time. Maplestory is a 2D side-scrolling, fantasy MMORPG with a massive amount of features and things to do. Eons ago, six brave heroes defied the Black Mage and stopped his conquest of Maple World, sealing him away for millennia. Now the fiend has awoken, and a new breed of hero must take up the call.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Players may buy benefits both in and out of combat, as well as cosmetics and pets, some of which are Gachapon style loot boxes.

Key Features:

Tons of Classes: Maplestory has over 30 classes including everything from wind archers and pirates to magicians with kinetic powers and pirates. You’re sure to find a wacky class you love playing!

Customization: Customize your character’s abilities with skill trees to specialize their playstyle just how you’d like. Change their appearance with countless different hats, cloaks, gloves and more that will ensure no two Maplers are quite the same.

Guilds: Join or create your own Guild so you can more easily join forces with other players and bring them on tough adventures. Exploring fantastical worlds is always better when you have some friends by your side!

Classes and subclasses:

Magicians: Magician, Battle Mage, Beast Tamer, Blaze Wizard, Evan, Kanna, Luminous, Kinesis, Illium

Thieves: Thief, Dual Blade, Nightwalker, Phantom, Xenon, Cadena

Warriors: Warrior, Aran, Dawn Warrior, Demon Avenger, Demon Slayer, Hayato, Kaiser, Mihile, Warrior, Zero, Blaster

Bowmen: Bowman, Wild Hunter, Wind Archer, Mercedes

Pirates: Pirate, Angelic Buster, Cannoneer, Jett, Mechanic, Shade, Thunder Breaker

Tibia

Tibia is one of the oldest and most successful massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG). Since 1997, players have been visiting the medieval world of Tibia.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Many features are locked behind a premium account paywall.

Key Features:

Classes: Knight, Paladin, Druid, Sorcerer

Server Choice: Play on a server that doesn’t allow PvP for an easier time, or jump into a PvP server to put your skills to the test against other players!

Great Playerbase: The game’s community is large, active, and helps drive future content. What isn’t there to love about an awesome community?

Ease of Access: Reasonable system requirements and a low demand on bandwidth ensures the game is accessible to everyone who wants to play it!