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PlaneShift

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48%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
59% User Score Based on 32 reviews

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PlaneShift is a multiplayer open world role playing game with fantasy, mystery, medieval and historical themes. It was developed by Atomic Blue and was released on January 22, 2026. It received neutral reviews from players.

PlaneShift is a Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world! A medieval world, with many cities to explore, monsters to fight, weapons and equipment to find and craft. Old school as we are one of the first free MMOs! Made and maintained by volunteers (as a hobby!) Original setting and lore 9 playable races with unique traits Professions and crafting through a skill system …

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59%Audience ScoreBased on 32 reviews
graphics3 positive mentions
grinding3 negative mentions
  • Deep and immersive roleplay-focused MMO with unique lore and world-building, offering diverse character progression and skills including crafting and magic.
  • Completely free-to-play with no microtransactions, developed openly with community involvement and regular updates from a dedicated developer.
  • Offers a nostalgic, old-school MMO experience with open exploration, challenging quests, and a passionate, helpful community.
  • Extremely steep learning curve with an excessively long and unskippable tutorial, confusing UI, and poor new player guidance making it difficult to start.
  • Numerous technical issues including bugs, rubber-banding and server performance problems, inconsistent animations, clipping issues, and immersion-breaking glitches.
  • Development is slow and unfinished despite decades of work; some users report toxic community and unfriendly dev interactions, plus complicated, tedious grind-heavy progression.

  • story

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    25% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The story is deeply quest-driven, encouraging extensive exploration and character progression through numerous minor and epic quests without much hand-holding or quest markers, which can make it challenging for new players. The narrative supports diverse role-playing options, including apprenticeships, marriages, and exploration, fostering player-created stories, though some aspects like crafting and quest clarity could benefit from improvements. Overall, the story offers immersive challenges ideal for dedicated players who enjoy deep, ongoing engagement and discovery.

    • “Get to know the world by going on quests for the characters you meet, or design your own events and stories by taking on an apprentice, marrying another character, or leading a solitary life as an explorer of the unknown.”
    • “Take on several hundreds of minor jobs and epic quests that will lead you on to learn a craft and explore the world.”
    • “If you are looking for a game to roleplay or just enjoy the story and mechanics, this may be the game for you.”
    • “The dev and their little nostalgia cults group wants new players to waste weeks to months to master something. It is forceful if you want to make your own high-quality gear, better spells, or higher damage casting spells. Some are mandatory to finish the questline. To even be able to do anything in this game, first, you need to do a bunch of quests to get skillset books. To know where you are, you need to get a compass, which is a quest new players don't even know where to start. By the time they find out about the compass, they would already have half of the world map memorized. Also, to get a familiar, you need to get a golden ring, but it's unclear where to get that.”
    • “Where to start, heh. I like Planeshift so I'm recommending it but still gonna rant a little. Play at your own risk; it does not hold your hand. If you're not sure, ask in-game or on Discord so you’re not standing around too long. There are 9 races all with their pros and cons, very well done by the way. When you start, there's no quest markers, so you will feel lost trying to figure things out.”
    • “I enjoyed what I saw but felt a little lost. I read everything. Some things won’t show up in your quest log and there are no quest markers. I really hope they fix that. Crafting, crafting, crafting—it feels like it could be overhauled.”

  • gameplay

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The gameplay is praised for its challenging mechanics and lack of hand-holding, offering a nostalgic, immersive experience that encourages exploration and role-playing supported by meaningful mechanics. However, some find certain mechanics difficult to understand and experience interruptions that disrupt immersion. Overall, it suits players who enjoy deep, story-driven RPGs without guided assistance.

    • “Fun to play and explore, no hand-holding mechanics, no wikis to help you, feels like the good old days again.”
    • “Do you feel that role-playing should not simply depend on your imagination but that your character should be able to fulfill their role supported by actual game mechanics?”
    • “If you are looking for a game to role-play or just enjoy the story and mechanics, this may be the game for you.”
    • “Guided gameplay, where the game tells you what to do.”
    • “You have to regularly switch to walking or wait for a resync, interrupting gameplay and ruining immersion.”
    • “I have a hard time understanding a lot of the mechanics, but it's probably because I'm used to the dumbed down versions of today's games.”

  • grinding

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users find the grinding in the game to be tedious and sometimes convoluted, but there are alternative gameplay styles such as role-playing, skill grinding, or hack-and-slay that can suit different preferences. Exploration and crafting offer ways to engage without focusing solely on grinding levels or points.

    • “Even outside that, the game was full of bugs, convoluted progression systems and tedious grind.”
    • “Instead of trying to "finish" the game grinding up points and levels, you can go around exploring the huge map, making friends, even becoming a crafter in many disciplines to while the time when many are not around, sell to NPC merchants and other players.”
    • “Suit your taste: pure role-play, skill grinding or hack & slay.”

  • graphics

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users praise the graphics for their classic nostalgic style combined with competitive, detailed art and seamless open-world design. The visuals are rich and immersive, offering a vast map that enhances exploration. Additionally, the game maintains broad platform support while improving graphical features.

    • “Classic nostalgia graphics: 10/10”
    • “In tow with that came not only more competitive graphics and art renderings, but also a great extension towards a seamless and open-world map, rich in detail and of a size that you can literally lose yourself in.”
    • “The current version allows for more features and better graphics, and still supports Windows, Mac, and Linux!”

  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's music aspect is praised for its creative freedom, allowing players to compose and perform their own music as part of an immersive roleplaying experience. This feature enhances the sense of personal expression and interaction within the game world.

    • “An excellent MMO focused around roleplay, where you train by using your skills, and you can be practically anything; beer brewer, musician, alchemist, mage.”
    • “Entertain the world with your self-composed and performed music, as an actor of your own play within the game, a writer of stories or scientific discourse or as a map-maker of fame.”

  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game's optimization is notably poor, with numerous performance and gameflow issues stemming from unfinished and complex code. Despite these technical flaws, the game remains enjoyable, though it clearly requires significant development effort to improve stability and player guidance.

    • “This game needs an entire team that studied different areas of the extensive code to address all of the issues that are present (mainly performance and gameflow).”
    • “It's a jank gem beneath layers of even more jank and seemingly unfinished optimization and new player guidance yet it's still fun and that's all that matters in the end.”

  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game is free to play and contains no microtransactions, with development costs seemingly covered solely by the single active developer.

    • “It's free and does not carry any microtransactions; the costs seem to be all carried by the one developer who's actively working on it.”
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PlaneShift is a open world role playing game with fantasy, mystery, medieval and historical themes. Common tags for PlaneShift include indie, magic, exploration, third person, early access and others.

PlaneShift is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

PlaneShift was released on January 22, 2026.

PlaneShift was developed by Atomic Blue.

PlaneShift has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked PlaneShift for its graphics but disliked it for its story.

PlaneShift is a multiplayer game with local co-op support.

Similar games include Mabinogi, AdventureQuest 3D, Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, RPG MO, Project: Gorgon and others.