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TerraX
An idle MMORPG where your crew mines while you sleep and the money on the table is USDT.
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See all 34 gamesOrdered by our editors' score and last revised August 2026. Positions move when a game changes, a good expansion pushes one up, a bad monetisation change pushes one down.
TerraX
9.5/10Idle MMORPGBrowserFree to play2026
A browser-based idle MMORPG built on USDT. Workers mine and harvest around the clock, the Forge turns raw ore into gear, and everything you make trades on a player-run order book.
Idle GamesWeb3 GamesBrowser Games
Old School RuneScape
9.4/10MMORPGPCMobileFree to play2013
A restored 2007 build of RuneScape where every meaningful change is put to a player vote. Twenty-three skills, no classes, and the most open progression in the genre.
MMORPGRPGMultiplayer
Final Fantasy XIV
9.3/10MMORPGPCConsoleSubscription2013
A subscription MMORPG where one character can hold every class in the game. Best-in-class story, and a free trial that runs to level 70.
MMORPGRPGAdventure
Counter-Strike 2
9.2/10Tactical shooterPCFree to play2023
Twenty-five years of the same idea, refined until nothing is left to cut.
Minecraft
9.2/10Sandbox survivalPCMobileConsoleBuy to play2011
A block, a world, and fifteen years of people finding out what that means.
Path of Exile 2
9.1/10Action RPGPCConsoleFree to play2024
An action RPG that expects you to read the tooltip and means it.
Deep Rock Galactic
9.0/10Co-op shooterPCConsoleBuy to play2020
Four dwarves, a procedurally generated cave, and a fully destructible one.
EVE Online
8.9/10Space sandbox MMOPCFree to play2003
One server, one universe, and an economy nobody is in charge of.
Warframe
8.9/10Co-op action RPGPCConsoleFree to play2013
The best movement system in any free game, attached to a decade of content.
Dota 2
8.8/10MOBAPCFree to play2013
Every hero free, every mechanic sharp, every match an hour you owe someone.
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Not always the highest scored, these are the ones currently worth starting.
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Old School RuneScape
A 2007 MMORPG that the players themselves refuse to let die.
9.4/10MMORPG
Final Fantasy XIV
The MMORPG that was cancelled, rebuilt, and became the genre's high point.
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