There is a sense of accomplishment from putting in so much work, but it’s hard to justify the amount of time it takes just to get resources. It’s an immense timesink just to feel like you’ve made any progress. Putting up a building requires an extraordinary amount of time and effort involving cutting down swaths of forest, and digging up many actual boatloads of clay, iron, stone and whatever other building materials you can think up. Both world and sky are truly open.Īll that said, it’s also the heaviest grind of any game I’ve ever played. It might even have the most interesting, and dynamic skybox ever made, displaying evolving weather patterns, including wind, rain, snow, storms, rainbows, as well as an elaborate star map with a constant cycle of celestial bodies and even occasional eclipses. You can sail vast bodies of hostile waters, and navigate between continents. Crafting is mind-bendingly complex, and allows you to build a variety of tools, weapons, vehicles and structures out of many different materials with curious and even creative results. Monsters roam randomly around the map, freely challenging anything and anyone in their path. Trees grow back, and eventually take over unclaimed land. The landscape is fully shapeable, and ever changing. It can only be described as a blend of the classic MMORPGs like EverQuest and Ultima Online, and a clear technical predecessor to the formula we recognize from Minecraft. Wurm Online was the brainchild of then colleagues, Rofl Janssen and Markus Persson. Microsoft/Mojang has since removed all mention of Notch/Persson from Minecraft Oh, the guy who who made Minecraft, you mean? Yeah, that guy. It all started with a game studio called Mojang Specifications AB, co-founded by the one and only Notch. So what is Wurm, and what does it have to do with this early access Viking game that everyone keeps comparing to Minecraft and Rust? A lot, actually. It’s a standalone version of the MMO, giving players freedom to manipulate the game client and host private servers. You may be more familiar with its moddable offline-ish baby, Wurm Unlimited, which is available on Steam. Wait, you’ve never heard of Wurm Online? Shame on you.
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