Soul's Remnant, A Free 2D Platformer MMORPG By a Tiny Indie Team, Announces Ongoing Open Beta

After almost a decade of development and years of intermittent playtesting by a tiny indie team, one more MMORPG is opening its gates for players to try out. Soul’s Remnant, a free-to-play 2D action platformer MMORPG, is ready to emerge from annual spurts of open testing into a longer-term open beta this March. 

Starting March 15th, this open beta period will be ongoing so that the core development team, which currently appears to be a whole one or two people, can develop the game more effectively. 

“The open beta will be open indefinitely and not set to close at any specific time, with the goal of us fixing bugs, balancing, and adding content updates over time,” the follow-up tweet reads. In the past, it saw a few annual playtests as the game developed, but nothing as extensive as this open-ended open beta.  

The MMORPG claims to “focus on social gameplay and exploration,” per the game’s official site. “Customize your skills with our classless system, team up with others, and defeat monsters, bosses, and dungeons together!” 

In development as mostly a solo project since 2016, Soul’s Remnant looks like it has all the fixings of a platformer RPG, with a broad selection of flashy skills to tap into, dungeons, crafting and gathering, and a delightful pixel style, plus Discord Rich Integration. It undoubtedly takes heavy influence from MapleStory, without the decades of missed content (and, arguably, controversy) to contend with.

Soul’s Remnant appeared on Steam in January, and will launch into its beta from there. 

(Ta, MMOBomb.)