

Ryzom
Winch Gate Property Limited · May 6, 2016 · MMORPG, Massively Multiplayer, Free to Play, Indie, Open World
Ryzom is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.
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About Ryzom
Explore a fully open-source science fantasy MMORPG where your actions genuinely shape a living, breathing world filled with dynamic seasons, realistic ecosystems, and community-driven events. Master any skill you want on a single character—from combat and magic to harvesting and crafting—with no class restrictions, while facing threats like massive Kitin invasions that demand cooperation to survive.
Opensource
Ryzom is one of only a few commercial-grade MMORPGs that are fully open source: client, server, tools, and media. Being open source means that Ryzom draws on a vibrant community providing fixes and functionality above and beyond that of what the team can provide. It offers players a unique opportunity to become involved in the development of the game.
Sandbox
Far from being a frozen world, Ryzom is constantly evolving in regard to your actions. Will you spark another war? Will you found a lucrative commercial guild or aim for political power? What if your hunting talents could be decisive in the struggle against Kitins?
Pick your actions well, for each one of them may impact the world and its inhabitants!
Classless
Ryzom characters are unusual in that they are not bound to a class. That means you don't have to choose between being a warrior, a mage, a harvester or a crafter. You can improve your skills in all these classes with only one character; you do not need to focus on one path. For example, you can, at your leisure, either train your pike handling, put on your magic amplifiers to heal or cast offensive spells, pick up your pickaxe and harvest materials, or go into crafting a new armor or weapon.
You have absolute freedom!
Roleplay
Ryzom offers official interactive events (with live NPC's), regular and varied, that evolve according to your actions. Nothing is preordained!
Would you like to create your own event? The Animation Team is always at your disposal and will gladly support and assist in logistics.
In addition, many guilds are prepared to open their doors to help your character evolve!
For lovers of imaginary languages, the players and Animation Team have created unique languages. Roleplay immersion guaranteed!
Invasions
Picture yourself, in front of a city gate, looking at a far hill and sighting the scouts of a Kitin swarm. Now picture hundreds of Kitins following them, moving like a united and swarming army. Huge battles call for the cooperation of a great part of the community to counter these threatening invasions. And what if, one day, the Kitin were to win again, threatening hominity for the third time?
Consensual PVP
You can fight everywhere, but only when you wish to do so. Duels, outposts battles, faction of region fights... You are free to engage in them... or abstain!
Advanced Forage & Harvest
Ryzom features an advanced havesting and crafting system.
Harvesting - allows you to dig materials from the ground depending on season and weather and your skill. It's not so simple once predators get involved!
Crafting - Careful combination of materials depending on their characteristics and colors, allows production of unique weapons and armors. Thousands of recipes are possible.
Living mobs
A powerful A.I. system allows for a realistic wildlife behavior: carnivores attack herbivorous herds, realistic and dynamic animal motions make them lively, sometimes endearing, other times worrisome. There are also mass migrations on season changes and different behavior for different species. Take your time to sit and observe the life around you, it's an unforgettable view. But be careful of predators!
Dynamic environment
Ryzom is a 3D persistent world consisting of five lush and varied ecosystems. Landscape, wildlife behavior and ground material availability all change according to season, weather and time.
Discover the beauty of the Forest in the spring, do battle in the Jungle in a rainstorm under a summer sky streaked with lightning, lose yourself in the dunes of the Desert in the fall, or relax enjoying the reflections of a winter sun on the pure water of the Lakes.
Full character customization
Entirely customizable character appearance upon creation: shape your avatar the way you like it!
Ryzom — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Player modes
- Online PvP, Online co-op, Cross-platform multiplayer
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Started playing this game in 2004 and it became a huge passion for me. In all those years i don't think i was so passionate about an MMO as i was about this one. It is a game that is extremely hard to get into. A very elaborate system from combat to crafting that is so unique that coming from other MMOs won't help you a bit. On top of the elaborate and convoluted combat and crafting systems, you have a very harsh and unforgiving difficulty level, and an interface that is so different from other games, that it seems designed to confuse on purpose. If grinding did not exist, Ryzom would have invented it. Doubt you will find a more grindy game in the whole MMO world. Don't think there was a game that frustrated me more than Ryzom did. When you add all those things up, it is no wonder that new players tend to run away arms flailing and screaming in panic and disgust. And yet...the grinding never felt like grinding for me for the simple reason i enjoyed every aspect of it. This game frustrated me more than any other MMO but also gave me more satisfying moments than any other MMO. Even to this day, it offers things no other MMO could or would offer: An organic live world full of …5 found this helpful
the game is a bit clunky, but that is survivable. What I absolutely loathe is the "2000's era" you must group up mentality of the game design. Being an extremely introverted misanthrope I am not interested in hanging out with "90 hundred" other futhermuckers....nope ... lost me forever with the group-up wall.2 found this helpful
Just... no on every level. This thing is trash.1 found this helpful
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Worse combat than runescape, nothing sells for anything. Basic starter clothing costs 8k, mob drops sell for 2. Everything you craft at the beginning is just utter ♥♥♥♥, worse than vendor trash. Tutorial zone wants you to group for "guild-level" enemy and the game is dead so can't do the quests. Not worth, just avoid it.
Guys, fix that UI scaling! It's completely buggy. Nobody playing at high DPI? As soon as I can read "any"thing, I give a thumbs up. Also, the system recommendations aren't true for the game as it is today. As I can cook an egg on my onboard graphics, I would suggest at least 2 GB RAM on your graphics card. Otherwise, it reminds me of Runes of Magic. Just without those awful crashes for now. The tutorial is nice enough. If I weren't on Linux, I wouldn't be able to even try the game, as a single letter has the size of about half a millimeter. But it isn't any fun to have to zoom in to read the texts and to zoom out to see where I am walking all the time. It seems, the game isn't loading UI scaling at the start of the game. And it doesn't always take care of the scaling after saving settings.
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