New survival MMORPG launched on Steam in January – Lets you play giant dragons
With Draconia, a new MMORPG started in Early Access on Steam on January 13th. The special thing about this game is that you control a dragon and use it to complete quests and collect and craft items. It also mixes some survival elements into the gameplay.
What kind of game is this? Draconia is a buy2play MMO and revolves around giant dragons. You can control them and even customize them to your liking in a character editor. There are different types of dragons, such as the European Vodros, the Wyvern or the eastern dragon Yamati.
Once the dragon is created, you explore a game world and experience adventures in a mix of MMORPG and survival:
- You move with WASD and fly through the world
- At a board you can accept various quests
- You must regularly seek food and water to survive. You can find them using your sense of smell
- There is a collection and crafting system. Among other things, you can create a hoard where you can store your loot
- You can interact with objects in the open world and learn more about the story of the game
- There is a dynamic weather system and the night is so dark that you have to activate a special night vision
- At the start you can choose from different servers. PvE reigns supreme on the official servers with an optional PvP system. However, players can also host their own servers and activate PvE or open PvP there
The game is currently in Early Access and primarily has the features mentioned above. However, further content is planned, including building your own nest and raising children, a clan system and talent points, which do not currently exist.
Who is behind the game? Draconia is being developed by an indie studio that claims to have made the plan to implement Draconia in 2016 and has been actively programming the game since 2019. It is developed in the Unreal Engine 4.
The developers themselves call Draconia a MORPG because only 60 players can be online at the same time on the official servers. On your own player servers, however, it should be possible to adjust this number up and down.
The video by the YouTuber Blue Dragon, who previously also tested the alpha, gives you a first insight into the MMORPG:
Despite Buy2Play and Early Access, Draconia attracts over 200 simultaneous players
How is the game doing on Steam? If you want to play Draconia in Early Access, you have to pay 29.99 euros in advance (via Steam). The game is Buy2Play and should remain so after the release. Since the start on January 13th, an average of 119 players have been online and on January 15th there were even 203 at the same time in the peak. That’s not bad for an indie MMORPG of this kind.
Draconia also got 80 reviews on Steam, 70% of which were positive:
- Above all, the choice of dragons, flying and the crafting system are praised.
- On the other hand, there is criticism for a lot of missing content, the rather weak graphics and performance and the fact that there is hardly anything to do at the moment.
Draconia is currently only supposed to offer a few quests, a bit of crafting and free exploration of the world, in which there are hardly any NPCs at all. To this end, the developers should work very intensively with the community and discuss new features with them.
So if you want to get deep into a dragon MMORPG, you can join the community or at least keep an eye on Draconia.
What do you say about Draconia? Does the concept of the dragons appeal to you? Will you buy the game or will you wait and see how it develops? Feel free to write about it in the comments.
Draconia isn’t the only dragon MMO on Steam. Back in 2019, we reported on Day of Dragons accidentally hitting Kickstarter. The game has recently received 82% positive ratings and has an average of 180 players almost 2 years after it was launched in Early Access. You can find out more about the structure here:
Kickstarter game accidentally triggers Harry Potter fans, raises $500,000
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