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As Kirito explores a new VRMMORPG, investigate a mysterious NPC’s questline while battling, building skills, and leading a party.
Released 27 Oct 2017
Recruit Wandering NPCs
Chain Party Skills
Build Weapon Skills
2026, Sword Art: Origin, a new VRMMORPG has emerged. Kirito meets a mysterious NPC and receives a cryptic message. This game is definitively not the same as the one he escaped years ago…
Developed by AQURIA · Published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
In 2026, Kirito enters Sword Art: Origin, a new VRMMORPG, and encounters Premiere, a mysterious NPC whose broken questline hints at something unusual. The story follows Kirito and his companions as they investigate her and explore this alternate game world.
Explore connected areas, take on quests, fight enemies in real-time battles, and challenge bosses. Combat combines basic attacks, dodges, weapon skills, and party coordination, with opportunities to chain skills and respond to enemy attacks.
Develop your character through weapon-based skills, skill trees, equipment, and weapon upgrades. Recruit companions, assign party roles, and build relationships through conversations and events. You can also join multiplayer sessions with up to three other players.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players who enjoy the game often praise its MMO-like feel as a solo RPG, especially the mix of real-time combat, party skill chains, character customization, and long-term progression. Character interactions and the amount of content are also recurring draws, particularly for Sword Art Online fans. Other players find the dialogue, grinding, or systems less appealing.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 53 |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports single-player and optional online multiplayer. Official store text says multiplayer lets you play with 3 other players, implying up to 4 players total. Reviews consistently describe multiplayer as limited, mainly for co-op grinding, bosses, raids, and some duels/PvP rather than story progression. |
| Multiplayer & mods | One review mentions modded or cheated equipment appearing through multiplayer trading. Another says only limited items can be traded and rare items or equipment cannot be traded. No official mod support information is provided. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
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