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The Most Popular MMORPG Video Games Right Now
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Vote up all the MMORPGs you're still playing in 2020.
We’re ranking the all current most popular MMORPGs from best to worst. From vast lands to explore, skills to unlock, and abilities to upgrade, MMORPGs give gamers a unique sense of accomplishment that most other genres can’t even come close to replicating. Short for "Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game," the best MMORPGs have the ability to transport players to a whole other world.
Epic open-world games like World of Warcraft have helped bring MMORPGs into the mainstream, giving gamers more choices and titles to choose from than ever before. With fan-favorite games like The Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and 2011’s Rift, did your favorite MMORPG make the list?
Upvote the best MMORPGs and watch as your favorite titles top the list. And if your favorite MMORPG isn't listed, be sure to add it so other gamers can give it a go.
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- Final Fantasy XIV, also known as Final Fantasy XIV Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows personal computer, developed and published by Square Enix. It is ...more
- The Elder Scrolls Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios. It was released on April 4, 2014 for Microsoft Windows, OS X and on Steam on ...more
- Guild Wars 2 is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by ArenaNet and published by NCsoft. Set in the fantasy world of Tyria, the game follows the re-emergence of Destiny's Edge, ...more
- World of Warcraft (commonly known as WoW) is a pay-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth game set in the fantasy Warcraft Universe, first ...more
- RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser ...more
- Star Wars: The Old Republic, often abbreviated as SWTOR, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based in the Star Wars universe. Developed by BioWare Austin and a supplemental team at ...more
- Neverwinter is a Dungeons & Dragons free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game for the Microsoft Windows platform. It was developed by Cryptic Studios and was released on 20 June ...more
- 8Rift is a fantasy free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Trion Worlds. Rift takes place within the fantasy world of Telara. The game was released in March 2011. Two ...more
- The Lord of the Rings Online (previously titled The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows and OS X set in J. ...more
- Black Desert Online is a sandbox-oriented fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Korean video game developer Pearl Abyss and originally published for Microsoft ...more
- Albion is a single player role-playing video game developed and published by Blue Byte Software for MS-DOS in 1995. It was originally released in German, then translated to English for international ...more
- City of Heroes was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft. The game was launched in North ...more
- 13ArcheAge is an MMORPG developed by Korean developer Jake Song (former developer of Lineage) and his development company, XL Games. The game was released in Korea on January 15, 2013, Europe and North ...more
- Aion: Steel Cavalry is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released by NCsoft. The game combines PvP and PvE in a fantasy game environment. As of May 20, 2009, Aion had 3.5 million ...more
- Blade & Soul is a Korean fantasy martial-arts massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NCsoft. On September 13, 2012, NCsoft announced that Blade & Soul would release in Western ...more
- 16The Exiled Realm of Arborea is a 3D fantasy themed MMORPG developed by Bluehole Studio. The game was released in South Korea on January 25, 2011, in Japan on August 18, 2011, in North America on May ...more
- Star Trek Online, often abbreviated as STO, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Cryptic Studios based on the popular Star Trek series created by Gene Roddenberry. The ...more
- Eve Online is a player-driven, persistent-world massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in a science fiction space setting, developed and published by CCP Games. Characters pilot ...more
- DC Universe Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based upon the fictional universe of DC Comics. Developed by Daybreak Game Company's Austin studio and co-published by Sony ...more
- Fallout: New Vegas is an action role-playing video game in the Fallout video game series. The game was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. It released for ...more
- 21Defiance is a science fiction-themed persistent world massively multiplayer online third-person shooter developed by Trion Worlds. Defiance takes place on a terraformed Earth several decades into the ...more
- 22Skyforge is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Allods Team in collaboration with Obsidian Entertainment, and published by My.com. Set on the planet Aelion, ...more
- Age of Wushu is a free-to-play 3D martial arts action MMORPG, developed by Chinese company Snail. The game revolves around the Wuxia-inspired lore surrounding martial arts and adventures in Ming ...more
- The Secret World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game set in the modern day real world by developer Funcom. Ragnar Tørnquist is the creative director of the game. The Secret ...more
- Star Conflict is a free-to-play dynamic massively multiplayer online game space action game. The gaming platform Steam describes it as an "action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game". ...more
