{"id":1481396,"date":"2026-01-31T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fFxifk9PwsVZccgtwqxw54"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:53:27","slug":"old-school-mmo-project-gorgon-launches-into-1-0-with-an-update-that-adds-by-far-the-largest-and-most-complex-map-weve-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/old-school-mmo-project-gorgon-launches-into-1-0-with-an-update-that-adds-by-far-the-largest-and-most-complex-map-weve-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-school MMO Project: Gorgon launches into 1.0 with an update that adds ‘by far the largest and most complex map we’ve ever made’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The children yearn for the grind. Between projects like World of Warcraft: Classic<\/a> and Old School RuneScape<\/a>, alongside new games like Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen<\/a> there’s clearly a hankering among MMO players for traditional online experiences. Now, players looking to get hopelessly lost in a lo-fi fantasy world before getting kerb-stomped by a level 4 skeleton can add Project: Gorgon<\/a> to their lists, as the classically styled MMO just released out of Steam early access.<\/p>\n

Project: Gorgon is an MMO that harks back to the primordial days of the genre, with simple 3D visuals and a minimally-guided levelling experience that lets you figure out where to go and what to do all by yourself (or with a party of pals, this being an MMO). But Project: Gorgon doesn’t solely riff on the rules of the past. It has ideas of its own, such as an NPC relationship system and dynamic environmental systems that let players solve problems like being set on fire by jumping into a lake.<\/p>\n

Its main attraction though, is a deep, open-ended skill system that enables players to tailor their approach to combat. Potential avenues to explore include a grapple-based unarmed combat system, necromancy that lets you raise corpses you find in the world to serve as your minions (including your dead friends) and a “battle chemistry” system that lets you inject yourself with mutagens or create your own pet golem.<\/p>\n

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