Upcoming MMORPGs That Fans Need to Know About
Chronicles of Elyria
Finally, we arrive at Chronicles of Elyria, yet another Kickstarted upcoming MMORPG. If you’re noticing a trend then you’re spot on –big-time publishers are wary of the genre now, especially ones that are going to deviate from what has been proven to be successful. Perhaps games like the ones on this list, and of course Chronicles of Elyria can change some minds.
Chronicles of Elyria has an extremely radical approach to your character: he or she is definitely going to die. All characters have 52 weeks to live. They will age, and eventually pass away, just like we all will one day. The aim is to create a dynamic world with heroes, villains, leaders, etc that will rise, fall and die just like ours on Earth. No matter how dominant someone is, father time catches up to us all, and opportunities for younger upstarts to take advantage will present themselves. In addition, you can also just straight up die, from you know, getting killed by something. You can revive yourself, but it gets more difficult the older you get. This system is so ambitious, that new players can even enter the game being “born” under a child code from another player, joining their dynasty and lineage.
Everything down to the game’s combat, economy, politics, factions, etc. are all centered around this persistent cycle of life and death, and that alone, is something that should pique the interest of those into MMORPGs.
Chronicles of Elyria is planned to fully release sometime late in 2019. Still not a firm release by any means, but at least it’s clearer than most upcoming MMORPGs.
