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8Realms – Defunct

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8Realms

8Realms is an exciting new MMORTS (massive multiplayer online real time strategy game? wow that’s a mouthful) from Jegex that puts the player through the ages as you build up an empire and help your civilization thrive. With your empire in 8Realms, you progress through eight essential “Ages” in order to progress and unlock new features. In each Age, new technology, structures and even more troops become available. Then at the end of each of these Ages, you construct a great Wonder to propel your Empire into the next Age. Get it, “8 wonders of the world”!?

8realms is a browser based MMORTS game and has persistent real time strategy elements throughout. Jagex has really created a beautiful world here with 8Realms, with bright green valleys and very detailed models. The company previously developed another massively multiplayer online RTS called War of Legends, which took place in the ancient world of Chinese mythology. These guys really know how to create a true browser MMORTS that is easy to pick up and play, but can get advanced for veteran players.

Call of Gods

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Call of Gods

Call of Gods (CoG) is a beautifully crafted, browser-based massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. CoG is a revolutionary update to the tired city-building, quest completion browser genre and is the latest title to join the growing lineup of browser games on the Aeria Now portal.

In Call of Gods, players will experience the next generation of browser RTS/RPG gameplay.In keeping with the traditional core style, players create a human, elf, or undead hero and venture out into a massive fantasy world where they can progress through elaborate quest arcs, fight their way with other players through challenging dungeons, amass armies, and ultimately build a powerful castle stronghold within your race?s kingdom.

Age Of Conan

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Age of Conan

Explore the world of Hyboria in Age of Conan, Funcoms latest MMORPG title to adapt a free to play model. Based on the highly popular Conan franchise, the game lets you explore a world of magic and monsters as you battle your way through, using everything from a battle-axe to dark magic.

Age of Conan features twelve unique classes and 4 races all with in-depth skill trees and abilities that allow players to customize their character as they progress through the game.The combat in AoC is arguably one of the most interactive in the MMO universe, instead of the typical button mashing of 1-5, players choose how to swing their weapon and perform combo attacks to unleash stronger abilities. The combat system is heavily skill based which attracts many PvP fans to the game and the recent update including hardcore PvP servers has gone down really well with the community.PvP is a large part of Age of Conan, players can join free for all servers allowing for instant combat against other players almost anywhere in the game.

More reserved PvP fans get plenty of action in the form of Guilds and Siege Battles. Guilds are able to build or conquer Battle Keeps.  Siege Battles are large-scale combat scenarios where guilds fight each other in the hopes of claiming new territory or capturing better resource locations.

Age of Conan now offers a free to play model allowing players to download the client and play for free with minimal restrictions, you can progress through the game easily as a free player but you don’t gain access to some of the more unique mounts and raids. Funcom also recently introduced a micro transaction system in the form of a standard MMO item mall, a free to play player can use this item mall without needing to upgrade to a premium account.

Crystal Saga

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Crystal Saga

Crystal Saga is a 2.5D browser-based, classical Anime MMORPG. Choose one of five classes, battle monsters, go on quests, capture and train pets, transform your mounts, and more.  Crystal Saga is a anime-style MMORPG.  Players can choose from one of five classes (Knight, Rogue, Mage, Priest, and Ranger), each of which has two specializations.

From there, Crystal Saga players can then go on quests, tame and train pets, participate in daily events, and even go dungeoning with friends.  The game world supports open PvP as well as special daily battlegrounds where players can gain ranks, fame, and rewards.

Dragon Soul Online – Defunct

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Dragon Soul Online

Explore a mystical world ripe with Chinese mythology and danger at every turn. The Great Dynasty that had united the promised lands has fallen. In its place stand eight loosely organized kingdoms ready to do anything to ensure they stand victorious and crush all who oppose their king. As these kingdoms waste away in constant conflict, a greater threat looms on the horizon?The hordes of the steppe, sensing their moment has arrived, have gathered to put an end to the remnants of the dynasty that has forced them to the live under shadow for so long. In this world, strength alone is not enough to win the day.

Do you have the fabled Dragon Soul that will unite the eight kingdoms and prevent this world from falling into the abyss of the hordes? madness? Welcome to Dragon Soul. Choose your allegiance among the eight kingdoms and rally your friends and allies to your cause. Indulge in a deep pet system complete with vast customization of skills and strengths. Fight epic large scale empire versus empire pvp battles to earn glory for your nation. Prove your worth through politics and power, and rise to the position of emperor. Each nation?s emperor can forge their nation?s legacy through appointing nobility, forging alliances, and declaring war.

Dragon Soul Online never even made it past its open beta phase and has been shut down.

Dragons of Atlantis

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Dragons of Atlantis

Dragons of Atlantis is a MMORTS where players are chosen to save the civilization of Atlantis.  The Ancient Ones created four original tribes known as the Solerians, Amazons, native Zolmecs, and the Primus.  Players select their tribe and begin their rise to power.  Similar to other empire building strategy games like Kingdoms of Camelot or Evony users build and control their own city.

Construct homes, Science Centers, Theaters, and Officers? Quarters.

Build farms and mines to collect resources to keep your kingdom prospering. Create a powerful army.  Raise and train your own Dragon to destroy enemies during war. Conquer other cities. Join forces in alliances. Chat with friends. Trade in valuable resources like ore for gold or shop for special acceleration items. Become a hero and prove to the Gods that your tribe is truly worthy in Dragons of Atlantis.

Luvinia World

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Luvinia World

Luvinia World (formerly Luvinia Online) is the latest free to play title from MMORPG portal Outspark, the same developers that brought you Seven Dragons and Fiesta Online. The game is set in the world of Luvinia, a colorful world in which players can explore dozens of areas, from city streets to the bottom of oceans. Luvinia offers a unique character creation system, giving players many choices that are unheard of in other free to play MMORPG titles. As well as choosing your base appearance you get the option of choosing to align with a certain nation, picking your astrological sign and of course, choosing your class.

The classes available are Warrior, Rogue, Magician, Knight, Fighter, Scout, Artist, Warlock and Priest, although not all of these classes are available to choose straight away. As your character progresses, you gain access to specialization classes within your base class, for example, a Rogue can later decide to specialize as a Scout or Artist, with each choice unlocking separate powers and abilities.There are 2 separate sides you can choose to align with, Nation and Federation, with each side offering 3 nationalities to choose from. Each faction has its own starting area and beginning quests and is also the side you will represent in PvP battles later in the game.

The skill progression system in Luvinia Online gives players the choice of how to improve their class, offering a unique sphere-grid type system that allows players to either upgrade a current skill or unlock a new ability. At the start you only have basic access to your class’s skill tree, as you gain more experience and level up, unlocking your specialty class, you gain access to more areas of the skill tree which in turn, increases the power of your character.Luvinia Online is available, without restrictions, as a free to play title but players wishing to invest money into their characters can do so using the web-based item mall and micro-transactions system.

Edgeworld

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Edgeworld

EdgeWorld is a modern sci-fi free online strategy game city building game that is published by Kabam, the same people behind Samurai Dynasty and Global Warfare. The game puts you in the relentless war between the Ceruleans and the Galactic Union that is allied with three major factions.  The three factions are the Maar Confederacy, the Erazi Syndicate and the Helio Legion.

Set in a sci-fi intergalactic warfare setting, it allows you to use real time strategy to take out your opponents. You take up the role of Commander of Cerulea in charge of base-building and military action. This game has been widely popular is is fun to play with friends so be sure to check it out.

Dark Orbit

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Dark Orbit

With simple graphics, but a vast world, Dark Orbit offers a great PvP experience like all BigPoint games. Dark Orbit is a free-to-play browser MMORPG in which the player takes control of a space ship and battle for supremacy and resources. At the start, Dark Orbit offers three powerful mining corporations the player can choose to be part of: Mars Mining Corporation, Earth Industries Corporation, and Venus Resources Unlimited. There are a total of 10 space ships, 4 kinds of lasers, 4 kinds of rockets and a handful of engine and shield types which the player can use to upgrade their battle craft.

The game provides a vast world and leaves the players to enjoy the open-PvP system, allowing them to join guilds and launch coordinated attacks against other clans. Dark Orbit doesn?t offer a big questing system which can make the game feel repetitive and somewhat boring after a few hours of gameplay.

To stir up the interest, BigPoint even offers a top prize of $10,000 to whomever succeeds in surviving a monthly special map. Everyone can join. The players need to collect as many ?jackpot points? as they can and at the end of the month the winning player receives the equivalent amount of dollars to the jackpot points he gathered.

Dark Orbit isn?t the best browser game, but it certainly is one of the better ones. Despite the lack of an in-depth questing system and the repetitive gameplay, Dark Orbit succeeds in stirring up the interest of its player-base with challenging PvP battles.

Allods Online

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Allods Online

Allods Online is a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG developed by the Russian company Astrum Nival. The game entered its open beta stage on February 16, 2010. Ever since then numerous levels of polish have been added on top of the original design and the vast majority of the game?s problems have been ironed out. The game was finally launched on May 11, 2011 together with its fourth volume called Astral Odyssey.Many of the game?s composing elements could be considered traditional for the fantasy MMORPG genre, but a few are a bit more original than expected. Among them is the players’ ability to build ships and with them sail the magical space called The Astral. To make things even more interesting, players can engage in ship-to-ship combat and explore zones otherwise unreachable.

The Allods Online player base is split into two factions: The League and The Empire, each of them with three races and a panoply of classes to choose from. While the class system might see a bit overwhelming especially to a new player or to someone unaccustomed with the fantasy MMORPG canons, it does provided a most welcomed variety and the time invested in understanding the system and what each and every class brings to the table is eventually well worth it.

Allods Online managed to impress gamers and critics alike by providing triple-A quality gameplay, graphics and sounds in a free-to-play business model. The artistic direction of the game bearing the unmistakable influence of the Russian art school is particularly impressive.

Exoplanet War

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Exoplanet War

Exoplanet War is a new browser based MMORTS game set in a distant universe where science fiction is reality. Exoplanet War offers players the choice of playing as one of three unique races, Gaians, Zubens and Neckrons, all with their own design and style of buildings and units.Unlike most free to play browser games, Exoplant War is set in a technologically advanced era where 3 civilizations are fighting for control of vital planets in order to sustain their energy supplies.

The game hosts a variety of interesting mechanics such as the 72 hour newbie protection system but the more interesting parts of Exoplanet war lie within the Commander system. Commanders are unique, individual units that march your armies into battle. Each Commander can gain experience and increase in strength, as well as learn new abilities and spells. Commanders are not limited to any particular race or unit and can be Infantry, Vehicle or even Air.

Once you’ve built your army and chosen your Commander’s, you can add specific improvements and abilities to practically any unit under your command via an in depth research and development system revolving around one of the constructed buildings. These elements, combined with the fresh, science fiction settings makes Exoplanet War quite a nice change to the typical medieval settings used in other free to play MMORTS browser games.

One of the most interesting aspects of the game is the way your army is sent to war. A large number of MMORTS games require a substantial time investment before you’re fully able to pose any kind of military threat but Exoplanet War has you fighting battles within a few moments and doesn’t punish new players for a few bad decisions early on.

Perfect World

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Perfect World

One of the most popular downloadable MMO games ever, Perfect World is a vast land filled with beautifully stunning graphics and epic classes. The incredible detail in the game makes it one of the most visually impressive games out there. The play style is easy to learn yet takes a certain degree of skill to perfect for any class. With a massive amount of quests to complete and varied dungeons to explore, you will find it hard to leave this game alone!

Pros: A large world filled with varied visual delights. Highly customisable character in regards to looks and clothes. Plenty of quests, dungeons and events.

Cons: Hard to farm enough gold for high level gear and items. Hard to gain experience level 95+.

Evony

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Evony

Evony II is a 2D strategy browser MMO with a medieval setting. The game was originally launched in 2009 and it grew pretty fast through aggressive marketing and advertising on one end and classic, yet polished game elements at the other end.

In Evony II players must gather four different resources build their city, keep the population happy and in general manage this urban universe in a tycoon-like fashion. However, this is not the ultimate goal of the game, but that of conquering the world. In order to do that players must address military and diplomatic issues: build troops, make alliances and eventually make war against neighboring cities.

The game?s micro-transaction system is pretty common, but since this is at its core a PvP oriented game, the offers of the in-game store tend to make huge differences in a conflict. With the help of the game?s currency called ?cent? players can ignore the building time of a new construction, they can instantly gain extra resources and in general perform actions which gives the upper hand.

Evony II doesn?t reinvent the genre, but manages to do a nice job with the classic browser based strategy MMO recipe. The game looks good, is entertaining, and doesn?t take a lot of time to understand or play. Its only flaw is related to ?the dark side? of the free-to-play business model, a side unfortunately unavoidable especially for a browser MMO.

Pros: A good social environment with cut-throat politics.

Cons: People using bots and alternate accounts. Risk of total loss of cities/resources/heroes when left alone overnight.

Golden Age

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Golden Age

Golden Age is a 2D, browser-based strategy MMO based on the story of the Knights Templar in medieval Europe. Choose to play as a Knight Templar, a member of the Ibero Alliance, or join the Rhine Commerce Guild. Build your fortress, battle other players, and seek victory!

Golden Age is a browser based side scrolling RPG-style MMO. Following Molay?s documented outrage at baseless arrests of the Knights Templar in 1307 A.D., Golden Ageintroduces a fellow knight said to have received a map to a lost continent from Molay himself. At Molay?s request, the knight secretly leads 400 Knights Templar to safety in these unknown lands.

Players enter the tumultuous Golden Age setting shortly following the Templars? discovery and colonization of the mysterious treasure-filled region, and must defend their developing fortresses from oncoming waves of greedy plunderers. Players will take their roles in Golden Age as one of three distinct classes of citizens.