Welcome again to a different roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer video games you’ve by no means heard of!
QANGA
QANGA is a new-to-us multiplayer sci-fi survivalbox from iolaCorp Studio that arrived in early entry on Steam final fall. “QANGA is an bold and expansive challenge, a real odyssey in area that permits you to discover your entire photo voltaic system with none loading screens,” the studio says. “Our objective is to create an immersive science fiction recreation that mixes components of survival, base constructing, area and floor fight, and interplanetary buying and selling inside an unlimited multiplayer sandbox.” It’s at the moment $35 on Steam, however there’s a free demo when you simply need to strive it early. Simply be warned it appears to be a real early entry, so it’s very a lot a piece in progress. Full launch is predicted “across the finish of 2027.” (Cheers, Mibe70!)
City Useless
My eyebrows lifted to the ceiling once I noticed this information on GamesRadar, because the publication referred to as City Useless a 19-year-old MMO, and I do suppose we’d keep in mind a type of. However you’ve in all probability by no means heard of it as a result of it’s actually a text-based MUD, and it’s apparently closing down on March 14th due to the UK’s On-line Security Act, which amongst different issues threatens small internet video games that may’t realistically implement age restrictions. “I’ve reluctantly concluded that it doesn’t look possible for City Useless to have the ability to proceed working,” the solo dev writes. “So a full 19 years, 8 months and 11 days after its quarantine started, City Useless shall be shut down. No grand finale. No closing disaster. No helicopter evac. Make your peace or your closing stand in whichever a part of Malton you referred to as dwelling, and the sport shall be switched off at midday UTC on 14 March.” Thanks, UK gov. We’re all a lot safer on-line now.
Voxile
This one simply landed in our inbox, and truly you might have heard about it earlier than, because it debuted in 2024 as Voxlands. VoxRay Video games is now calling it Voxile, and it’s launching into Steam early entry for actual on March tenth. It form of nonetheless appears to be like like Minecraft however amped up right into a shootery survivalbox, promising FPS fight, questing, crafting, a world editor, voxel destruction and constructing, and “gorgeous ray-traced graphics.”
Cyborg Immortal
I’m afraid we’re ending this roundup on one other unhappy word and one other sundown, as a recreation we’ve touched on a number of occasions on this column is dropping out. Studio Santa Barbara Video games had dubbed Cyborg Immortal a “bullet hell MMO for cellular,” and it was getting updates clear up via a month in the past following its official early entry launch on Android and iOS. However apparently, it didn’t take off, and the devs are already giving up. Bummer. (Thanks Sam!)
“Over the subsequent 24 hours, Cyborg Immortal will now not be out there for obtain on the Apple App Retailer and Google Play Retailer, and efficient instantly the in-game retailer shall be closed for purchases. Nevertheless, you’ll be able to nonetheless redeem your every day free tickets till the sport totally goes offline. As well as, every day free tickets have been elevated from 10 to 100 tickets. Our US-East server will stay open till March eleventh, 2025, at which level Cyborg Immortal will formally shut down.”
We’re all the time looking for brand spanking new bizarre MMOs and multiplayer titles we’ve by no means heard of – drop us a word when you spot one we must always cowl!
