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Games like World of Warcraft

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The genre-defining MMORPG: explore the vibrant world of Azeroth alongside thousands of players, level and gear your hero, tackle dungeons and raids with a group, or clash in Alliance-versus-Horde PvP.

  • Open world
  • Playing together in co-op
  • Strong character progression
  • Co-op or multiplayer

The closest matches for World of Warcraft are The Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2 and Perfect World. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes World of Warcraft special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Elder Scrolls Online

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  • Open world
  • Playing together in co-op
  • Strong character progression

A massive online RPG that lets you roam across Tamriel, delivering classic Elder Scrolls questing with fully voiced storylines. You can play it solo or team up for dungeons, trials and large-scale PvP battles.

Guild Wars 2

Co-op or multiplayer

A subscription-free MMORPG built around dynamic world events, mobile dodge-based combat and a gorgeously painted fantasy world full of vistas and jumping puzzles. Strangers naturally team up without formal grouping, and there are raids, fractals and massive WvW battles for those seeking more.

Perfect World

Co-op or multiplayer

A classic 3D MMORPG built on traditional Chinese culture and mythology. Players explore the world of Pangu together, level up their characters and fight in real time.

Tera

Playing together in co-op

Tera is a fantasy MMORPG with non-tab-target real-time combat where aiming, dodging and timing matter. Its colorful world of Arborea is built around group dungeons and boss fights with other players.

Black Desert

Open world

A visually impressive MMORPG with fluid, combo-driven action combat in a huge open world. Beyond fighting, it offers many life skills such as fishing, trading, cooking and alchemy, plus large-scale siege wars.

Corepunk

Open world

Corepunk is a top-down MMORPG with fog of war set in a seamless open world, built around discovery, professions, guilds and battlegrounds. It blends fantasy with sci-fi elements, and character progression drives the experience.

Ultima Online

Co-op or multiplayer

A pioneering MMORPG set in a huge persistent sandbox fantasy world where players freely train skills, trade, craft, and either fight or cooperate with each other.

Rift

Open world

A fantasy MMORPG set in Telara where two factions compete and dynamic rifts tear open across the world, triggering invasions that players fight off together. Its flexible class system with many soul specializations is a highlight.

Throne and Liberty

Co-op or multiplayer

NCSoft's free-to-play MMORPG built around a flexible weapon-combo class system, animal shapeshifting for gliding, swimming and running, and large-scale guild sieges. Weather and day-night cycles reshape both the open world and its battles.

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