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62 MMO games reviewed and scored, best first.
62 reviews
Sixteen years on, Vindictus still has the best melee combat any free-to-play MMO has ever shipped — and a progression system that now fast-forwards you past almost every reason to use it. Nexon is still updating it monthly in 2026, which makes the state of the middle game harder to explain, not easier.
6 / 10
The most technically ambitious combat sim on Steam — planes, tanks and ships in one engine, free to install, twelve years of updates. Its 35 add-ons total more than NZ$2,100, and after a decade the single most consistent thing players say about it is that the grind is designed to sell you out of itself.
6 / 10
Nexon's eight-year-old mobile MapleStory arrived on Steam in March 2026 with crossplay, a new job and a Mostly Negative rating. Underneath the port complaints is a more interesting game than its reviews suggest — an idle MMO whose central resource, auto-battle time, is metered at two free hours a day and sold for premium currency after that.
5.5 / 10
A nostalgic mobile spin on Ragnarok Online's class fantasy, undercut by the one thing an idle game can least afford to paywall — the automation itself.
5.5 / 10
A decade-old free-to-play MMORPG with an extraordinarily dedicated hardcore playerbase — reviewers with 2,000, 3,000, even 4,000 hours logged — and a 2026 sentiment collapse tied to a specific new complaint: classes that used to be earned through play are now gated behind gacha.
5.5 / 10
A free-to-play idle strategy MMO about building an egg-themed civilization, split almost exactly down the middle between players who find real layered depth in its economy and combat systems, and players frustrated by a slow start, progress-halting bugs, and lingering distrust of the developer's previous game.
5.5 / 10
A free-to-play underwater submarine MMO explicitly chasing the nostalgia of 2000s browser PvP games like DarkOrbit and Deepolis, with genuine strategic clan warfare underneath — undercut on day one by a monetisation model reviewers describe, overwhelmingly and specifically, as pay-to-win.
5 / 10
An open-world sci-fi gacha ARPG with real exploration and character-design appeal, whose review score is being shaped less by its combat or its shop than by an account-migration process that a large, consistent share of returning players say permanently deleted hundreds of hours and real money without adequate warning.
5 / 10
A veteran-defined tank warfare MMO whose Steam launch stumbled over locked-out existing accounts in 2021, and whose long, escalating pay-to-win reputation reached a documented breaking point in May 2025 when Wargaming introduced tiered loot boxes that sent its most invested ten-year players heading for the exit.
5 / 10
A Norse-mythology MMORPG with genuinely impressive Unreal Engine 5 production values, undercut by a blockchain-token economy that turns nearly every meaningful upgrade into a real-money or crypto-market transaction.
4.5 / 10
A Facebook-era MMO strategy game from 2011 finally arrived on Steam this July, and its first reviewers are overwhelmingly its own long-lost veterans — many disappointed by what fifteen years and a free-to-play economy have done to the game they remember.
4.5 / 10
Gravity's first open-world take on the Ragnarok Online franchise arrived on Steam four days ago at 25% positive — and the reasons turn out to be more specific, and more fixable, than a launch pile-on usually is.
4 / 10
KIXEYE's post-apocalyptic base-building MMO strategy game, running continuously since its 2011 Facebook debut, finally arrives on Steam — met largely by returning veteran players whose reviews describe over a decade of accumulated pay-to-win pressure and unaddressed cheating that the platform switch hasn't changed.
4 / 10
Booming Tech's own developer FAQ promised this would not be a standalone game and would build on existing Conqueror's Blade characters. It shipped a week ago as a separate free Steam app with its own client, a gacha wall in front of core unit progression, and no siege matchmaking at launch — and 15% of roughly 1,950 Steam reviews are positive.
3 / 10
