MMO / 5 GAMES ON THE WALL
Five online worlds, all free and all playable in a tab. Hordes.io is a 3D MMO with classes and open-world PvP from a single developer. Duskmere and Mirage Online Classic chase the early-2000s feeling with real-time skills and player markets. stein.world is a 16-bit pixel MMORPG with dodge-and-hit combat. Lost City is something else: RuneScape as it was on one day in 2004, rebuilt from scratch by its community. Each needs a free account to keep your character.
↗A 3D browser MMORPG from a single developer: four classes, open-world PvP and PvE, clans, no install.
OUR TAKEThe most complete browser MMO we have found: real classes, real PvP, clans, and it loads in seconds. A one-person project that has outlived most studios' games.
AROUND THE WEBHacker News: 26 points
↗A free 3D browser MMORPG with ten slow-burn skills, a player-run market, parties and a five-player dungeon.
OUR TAKEIf you miss the early-2000s grind, this is the honest version of it in a tab: skills that take real time, a market run by players, and a dungeon that needs friends.
↗A 16-bit pixel MMORPG with hundreds of quests, dungeons, crafting and active dodge-and-hit combat.
OUR TAKECosy pixel MMO with teeth: the combat actually asks you to move. A good one for a tablet on the sofa.
↗A retro pixel MMORPG in the spirit of the early-2000s classics: 11 classes, 100+ quests, trade skills, guilds and PvP.
OUR TAKEThe closest thing to logging into 2003 again, and it runs on a school Chromebook. Pick a class, do the first ten quests, and see if the hook still works on you.
↗A free, open-source, community-run reconstruction of RuneScape exactly as it was on 24 November 2004, playable in the browser.
OUR TAKEA museum you can walk around in. The 2004 world, rules and quirks, reconstructed by people who clearly loved it. Go burn some logs.
AROUND THE WEBGitHub: 277 stars
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