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Choose a race and combine skillsets in a fantasy sandbox MMO centered on trading, farming, exploration, housing, and warfare.
Released 26 Mar 2015
Combine Skillsets
Build Player Homes
Sail Trade Routes
Play ArcheAge - A vast open-world sandbox MMORPG with everything you can possibly imagine.
Developed by XLGAMES · Published by Kakao Games Europe B.V.









Set across the continents of Nuia and Harihara, ArcheAge casts players as adventurers in a world of rival factions, ancient history, and a looming conspiracy. Players choose from six races and build a character by combining skillsets.
Travel on foot, by mount, glider, or ship to explore the land and seas. Players can follow trade routes, seek treasure, farm, craft, and build homes, while taking part in quests and dungeons.
Combat spans land, sea, and air, from fighting monsters and rival players to ship battles and guild sieges. Guilds can build castles and contest territory, while shipbuilding and trade offer other ways to pursue progress.
Players who look back fondly on ArcheAge often praise its flexible class system and broad sandbox, especially its professions, housing, trade, and mix of land and sea activities. Some describe its systems as memorable and its early experience as enjoyable. Recurring complaints focus on pay-to-win monetization and subscription or access changes; other players mention a long grind or repetitive late-game play.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | 1–5 |
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| Multiplayer | ArcheAge is a massively multiplayer online RPG with shared servers, guilds, factions, open-world PvE, and open-world PvP. The provided text confirms group play for parties, raids, dungeons, guild activities, sieges, naval combat, and arenas. Reviews explicitly state a maximum party size of 5, and mention 1v1 and 5v5 arenas. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support or mod-related multiplayer features are mentioned in the provided text. |
| Controller required | No |
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| Metacritic | 80/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |