Harvest: Massive Encounter – survival strategy game

Harvest: Massive Encounter is an awesome (and I mean AWESOME) real time td and strategy game by Oxeye Game Studio. The game is not your usual tower defense type, but a unique, amazing and epic experience!

Story
Gold rush! Yeah, gold rush in space! Everyone wants to be rich. You also head the opportunity but there are the nasty aliens who stay between you and your success!
Gameplay
Truly epic! But lets start at the beginning. The game starts with a small base with two power plants and some power links. Yep, everything needs energy, so the player will build power plants and links most of the time. The mining is very important, cause it’s the only way to obtain money. And depending on the mode the player will need to build its defense structures - lasers and missile turrets. The lasers are really cool – you can link them to obtain a high-power beam.

Some game tricks and cheats:

• To build a structure faster click on it and choose the option to have all linked power nodes to focus their energy on it.
• To expand the map - build structures at the edges.
• Don’t forget to sell your harvesters when the nearest minerals are depleted.

Site: http://www.oxeyegames.com/harvest/

Canaan Online – another cute, browser-based MMO

Site: http://en.canaan.gpotato.eu/


Canaan Online is new browser MMORPG by gPotato. It is a free to play game with manga characters and fun, colorful world. It is a flash game so you don’t need an installation to play. The game is somewhat similar to Neverland Online.

Canaan Online offers four playable classes – Ranger, Priest, Warrior and Mage. Each class has its specific skills and style. Pets take main part in the game as they accompany your character in battles and fight.

First Steps
Your character will receive a quest right at the beginning – fight the flying piglet. You must defeat one of the cute flying piglets near the village. If you can’t find them, use the link on the monster name in the tutorial window. You will have a piglet as a pet to accompany you in your first battle. The game offers even an auto-combat mode for lazy players like me.

Overall Impression
Canaan is nice and relaxing game, perfect for people who don’t want to be too engaged in an online MMO.

Altis Gates - upcoming MMORPG game

Site: http://ag.igg.com/

Altis Gates is a turn-based 2.5D MMORPG published by IGG. The game features a fantasy world, influenced by the European mythology.
The game promises many fun features like shape-shifting, pets, marriage system, guilds, formation system and so on.
Altis Gates alpha testing is scheduled for this month and will run from 19th January to 22nd January.

MapleStory expansion! Pirates!

NEXON Europe today announced new expansion of their MMORPG MapleStory.

MapleStory is a free-to-play, 2D, side-scrolling MMORPG game developed by the Korean company Wizet and published by Nexon. The game is set in a typical, fantasy world with warriors, magicians, monsters and adventure.

The update adds new pirate job class. Prates can choose from two development paths – Brawlers (specialize on hand-to-hand combat) or Gunslingers.
The update also adds new territory – the Leafre map. It is an egg-themed territory, located in the West of Ossyria. Some of the strongest monsters and hardest quest can be found there.

To learn more visit http://maplestory.nexoneu.com/Promotion/Pirate.

ShadowTale – cool browser MMORPG

Site: http://www.shadowtale.com/

Shadowtale is a flash-based, 2D MMORPG game that can be played entirely in a web browser. The game has great features more similar to usual MMORPG games. Playing ShadowTale is like adventuring in a tale world.

I didn’t expected much but it turns out to be really fascinating game. Its universe is persistent, players go around from one scene to another, meet other players, fight monsters and do quests.

The battles are actually real time and quite fast. You can’t take a breath between attacking enemies. The enemies tend to surround you, fighting large groups isn’t easy. You don’t know what enemies would emerge behind the next turn. At the beginning series of goblins, wolves and boars will attack you. You must go on a mission to save a girl and then you must infiltrate a castle. Castle guards will attack you and they are quite strong. My character had a hard time fighting them. You can use spells together with regular attack to fight.

The game interface is convenient and similar to traditional non-browser MMORPG games. You can equip your character, eat food, drink special potions, upgrade your weapons and armors and so on. You even can have a pet although I don’t have one yet.

Players can explore many different locations like the Catacombs, Gravelands, and even some castles. The game graphics looks like images from an old, tale book.

Mini Fighter Online Preview

Site: http://global.netmarble.com/minifighter/

Few days ago, Netmarble announced an Open beta of their game Mini Fighters Online is going to be launched on December, 17.

Mini Fighter Online is a fast, 2D, side-scrolling MMO game centered on fighting.
The gameplay vary from quest and boss mode to fight challenges with other players.

It is fast and addicting game, already a hit in Korea.

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Magic World Online

Site: http://mwo.enjoymmo.com/

Magic World Online is yet another free-to-play MMORPG. It has plain, 2D graphics with not much character customization – the only choice is the character class, gender and fraction. This is maybe the only drawback of the game. MWO brings memories of Diablo 2 with its graphics and gamestyle. The game interface is relatively convenient, if you need to go on some map coordinates, you can click on the map and your character will go there. The skills, stats and so on windows are intuitive, even newbie players wont face difficulties.

Characters
At the beginning you can make a choice between four starting classes – Warrior, Archer, Summoner, and Mage. Later all of the classes have multiple possibilities for specialization. The first class change is at level 15. My first character was summoner and I was pleased to see actually useful and powerful summons, even the first elf.

Class Tree

• Warrior
  
  
  • Berserker (15)
    
    • Dire Warrior (30)
      
      
      • Devil Rider Warrior (50) - Unregenerate Demon (65)
      • Storm Warrior (50) - Thunder Storm Demon (65)
      
      
    
    
  • Shadow Knight (15)
    
    • Temple Warrior (30)
      
      
      • Great Hero (50) - Heroic Mars (65)
      • Knights Templar (50) - Saint Cavalier (65)
      
      
    
    
  
  
• Archer
  
  
  • Bounty Hunter (15)
    
    • Jungle Ranger (30)
      
      
      • Sniper King (50) - Sunsmashing Ares (65)
      • Dragon Slayer (50) - Sunscreening Master (65)
      
      
    
    
  • Stalker (15)
    
    • Assassin (30)
      
      
      • Night Lord (50) - Capricorn Sage (65)
      • Dark Fiend (50) - Scorpio Progenitor (65)
      
      
    
    
  
  
• Summoner
  
  
  • Necromancer(15)
    
    • Nature Guard (30)
      
      
      • Undead Manipulator (50) - Ghostdom Sage (65)
      • Necromancer Master (50) - Dragoncalling Master (65)
      
      
    
    
  • Illusionist (15)
    
    • Soul Manipulator (30)
      
      
      • Devil Beastmaster (50) - Illusion Angel (65)
      • Golden Beastmaster (50) - Falling Angel (65)
      
      
    
    
  
  
• Mage
  
  • Fire Mage (15)
    
    • Flame Magic Mentor (30)
      
      
      • Firedragon Pontifex (50) - Dragonbaking Master (65)
      • Flame Oracle (50) - Blaze Pluto (65)
      
      
    
    
  • Ice Mage (15)
    
    • Ice Magic Mentor (30)
      
      
      • Ice Dragon Oracle (50) - Freezing Uranus (65)
      • Ice World Pontifex (50) - Frosty Neptune (65)
      
      
    
    
  
  

Bot
The MWO client comes with a built in bot, which puts aside some of the game grinding. Even while I write this post, the bot is working hard for its food. It is highly customizable and I actually like it. Of course if you are not careful enough, the bot can get your character killed easily.

Quests / Experience / Drop
The game has many different quests. Players start with an intro quest and meet their class master in it. The experience and item drop are enough to keep the game entertaining. You can level up relatively fast and if you get bored you can leave the bot to do its job.

Monsters
Players meet a variety of monster types in game. There are some monsters with special aura, marked as elite – they are stronger than normal mobs but they drop more and better items.

Mass gaming, castle sieges
I haven’t met many players at the low level towns and fields. And I haven’t been on a siege as you can guess. I look forward for one though.

WonderKing Online – side-scrolling MMORPG

Site: http://wonderking.ndoorsgames.com/
WonderKing Online is a free-to-play, side-scrolling, 2D MMORPG. The game features cute anime graphics and fun, entertaining gameplay. Currently the game is in its closed beta.

Gameplay
The gameplay of WonderKing Online is very similar to most of the other side-scrolling MMORPGs. Players fight with monsters, do quests, explore dungeons and collect loot. You can form a party or a guild with your friends. The game is easy, nice, colorful, relaxing and in the same time addicting.
The controls are relatively easy to handle. The only thing I had a hardship was looting. The key wasn’t listed anywhere or I couldn’t find it. So if you have a similar problem – press down arrow to loot.
The game world is full of cute and sweet monsters. The background is a set of fantasy sceneries and has some magic in it.

Classes
WonderKing Online has four starting classes – Swordsman, Thief, Mage and Scout. Swordsmans as usual are the tank characters with strong defense. They use a melee attack and a sword as the name says.
Mages can specialize as damage dealing Wizards or support type Priests.
Thieves can deal a great amount of damage in a short period. They can specialize in melee or range combat with dagger or shurukens respectively.
Scouts are the ranger type characters with bows or guns.

Quests
WonderKing Online offers many different and entertaining quests. At the start players can do basic quests introducing game functionality and interface.

Overall Impression:
The game is very similar to MappleStory as player experience by my opinion. WonderKing Online is a beautiful and relaxing game, appropriate for almost all gamers.

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The Seventh Dragon

Site: http://dragon.bg-time.com/


The Seventh Dragon is a browser based strategy MMO set in a vast, fantasy world of Asan. The game allow players to choose from three races, each with own unique set of units and specialties. Players can recruit heroes to battle for them against other players.
Construct your castle and buildings, produce resources, hire heroes and armies, equip them and conquer!

Races
Players can select between three playable races – Human, Elf or Undead. Each race has seven different unit types and the units get stronger after some time.
Humans – they worship light. Their units are Spearman, Archer, Griffin, Bishop, Swordsman, Knight and Angel.
Elves – they worship nature. Their units are Kentauros, Leprechaun, Elf Guard, Pegasus, Dryad, Unicorn and Green dragon.
Undead – their units are Skeleton, Zombie, Ghost, Vampire, Lich, Dark Knight and Dragon Zombie.
There are two more races listed on the official site but when I created my account they weren’t available for players. The two races are Devil and Neutral, each of them has seven different types of units.

Buildings
In The Seventh Dragon players can construct and upgrade buildings like Command Center, Warehouse, Tavern, Guildhall, Farmland and more. Buildings take some time to be constructed and only one building can be constructed at a time. The higher the level the longer its construction time is.

Quests and Help
The MMO has quite helping introducing tutorial-quests with in-game reward. Later in game, there is a quest-mission for defeating the Devil boss Kaberos and send him back to hell.

Heroes
Fighting, collecting and hunting can be accomplished only by dispatched heroes. The abilities of a hero affect the units. Heroes can be recruited from a Tavern. Higher level Tavern will offer more heroes of a time. Heroes level up from battles with Devil Castles, Monsters or other Players.

New players have protection against external attacks for nine days.

Yea, the idea behind the game units and development of the castles looks very similar to Heroes of Might and Magic series.

Neverland Online

Site: http://neverland.hithere.com/

Neverland Online is a 2D, browser MMORPG. The game is set in a persistent fantasy world, players can do many things like catching monster and making them pets, leveling up, crafting, PVP and so on. The game is fully fledged MMORPG despite the fact that it doesn’t need an installation.

 

 

Neverland Online has several playable classes and many skills. Available classes are Ranger, Assassin, Elementalist and Taoist.

The game graphics are beautiful, peaceful and enjoyable.

Playing Neverland Online is refreshing and relaxing. It is an ideal solution for people searching for not engaging and lightweight mass game.

Neverland Online Guide