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Indie MMORPG Games
Not every video game is developed by major companies, which has large teams of developers and a limitless amount of resources for creation. Moreover, a massive amount of projects is made by independent creators, who make and publish their work with no publisher support. Indie MMORPG usually more unique and unusual, because their creators can experiment with the setting, visual style and plot, which is typically impossible and risky for big companies. Indie video games also cost less than others.
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As the name of this kind of games says, Indie MMORPG is created by independent developers, which are not supported by publishing companies. The single-player projects created by small studious are quite common, and nowadays, many of them are getting more and more well-quality. At the same time, Indie MMORPG situation is not so good. Online multiplayer games require a tremendous amount of effort and money on the development and maintaining of servers, and this is not taking into account the fact that such games need constant updates with new content. Otherwise, players will get bored and leave the project soon. So that indie MMORPGs are much rare, but it’s usually the best games of their genre because others could not stand the test of time.
Usually, Indie MMORPG created by developers who want to bring up something new into the industry, or create a video game of a dream, so that many projects of this kind have unique features. Very often these games are concentrated on extremely hardcore gameplay, with many sophisticated mechanics and unique class systems. The most noticeable and the first thing developers are experimenting with is a visual style: most of the projects have individual graphics, with vivid, stylized style, often released in pixels or isometrics. The second thing is a gameplay concept: there is the broadest range of rare genres, from RvRs to MMORPG strategies. Even though these games are usually quite buggy, their developers devoted to their work and listen to their audience, which helps to improve the gameplay.
Best Indie MMORPG
- Darkfall is a dark-fantasy MMORPG which combines the RPG gameplay with strategic elements and unlimited PvP mode for all players.
- Realm of the Mad God is a pixel MMORPG with the top-down angle of view and vivid pixel graphics. One of the main features of this project is a complex well-balanced class system.
- Mortal Online is a hardcore PvP/PvE MMORPG in the sandbox genre, which is set in a colossal living open world.
