Brightharbor's square in the game: the temple steps, market stalls, cherry trees and townsfolk around a fountain

Open beta

AETHERCHORD

A pixel-art MMORPG you play in your browser.
Free, nothing to download.

Single player works without an account. Accounts are free (16+).

Step out of Brightharbor's temple with nothing but a weapon and a rumour. Hunt the fields and the caves past the walls, find the friends who will hold the line with you, and start pulling at the threads the town would rather you left alone.

Rumhollow, a pirate cove, at night: a campfire, palm trees and a tavern deck by the water

Mysteries, not fetch quests

No arrows over heads, no markers on the map. Notes, carvings, an old verse, a bell nobody should ring: the world hides its secrets in plain sight, and you find them by looking and by asking the right people.

A ranger fighting a wolf pack in the wild, with the game's health bars, minimap and spell bar

Hunts that bite back

Hunting grounds on every road, caves with bosses at the bottom, group dungeons and world raids. Wolves hunt in packs and circle to your back; the small monsters stay dangerous long after you have outgrown them.

Five adventurers of different classes gathered on the temple steps in Brightharbor

Better together

Five classes that need each other: a tank to hold, a healer to keep them standing, the rest to finish it. Form a party, found a guild, buy a house, trade on the auction house and ride the carts from town to town.

Brightharbor's streets beside the sand of the coliseum, with the arena master at the gate

The coliseum

Right in the middle of town: challenges for one, two or a company of three to five. Everyone else watches from the stands. Fight other players too, if you choose to: PvP is something you opt into.

Made to be heard

An original soundtrack follows you from the harbour to the deepest floor, and the story's first novel is read aloud chapter by chapter.

An honest beta

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