Brighter Shores, former RuneScape lead Andrew Gower’s episodic, free to play classic-inspired MMO, is now available in Early Access.
The Early Access release follows a beta test last month, and Gower Described what Early Access means for the game. Several months ago, when announcing Early Access plans, he said, “The plan is the game will be labelled as ‘early access’ until PvP is added. i.e I want to let people start playing without having to wait even longer”. PVP is not available now, considering this warning, but it will be included later as an optional feature. The devs will continue updating the game and development over time, but Gower wanted people to be able to get in and play, Especially since the game has actually been in development for many years before its announcement early this year.
The free-to-play structure of Brighter Shores is intended to release with a lot of features to get into, and many of these are going to be familiar to classic MMO fans, especially if you were a RuneScape player at any point. In addition to eventually adding PvP, plans are in place to release new narrative episodes and features over time. There will be no item monetization, and there will be a premium pass for optional extra content, so you'll be able to get in and play but you can support the development with the optional pass.
We are currently rebooting the first bugfix update to Brighter Shores which hopefully fixes the following bugs:- players ocassionally getting stuck in combat.- ‘zombie’ error when attempting to login.- cant delete character with a very long name.- allow players from Cyprus…
— Andrew Gower (@AndrewCGower) November 6, 2024
Brighter Shores is now available to download and play on Steam. Gower updated a short time ago that there was a server reboot to apply some fixes for issues the early players experienced. Fixes were applied to a slate of bugs, including login errors, getting stuck in combat, some boss monsters breaking if multiple players were present at the same time, and freezes. They also added access for Taiwan and Cyprus.
