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Beautiful, flawed MMO Book of Travels is now a $5 singleplayer RPG, in a break from the industry trend of killing off struggling online games
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Beautiful, flawed MMO Book of Travels is now a $5 singleplayer RPG, in a break from the industry trend of killing off struggling online games

Rock Paper Shotgun·Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·about 1 month ago
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Servers to be shut down in July Image credit: Might & Delight I've long been an embarrassed fan of Book of Travels , the "tiny MMO" with heady artistic influences from Swedish indies Might & Delight. It's a world of enchanted string, vast cutaway forests, tinkling tea sets, and sleepy quasi-Orientalist cities. Our former news writer Lauren Morton called it "the cure for my break-up with MMOs" back in 2021. But it's never quite accomplished its ambitions, with the developers laying off around 25 staff following a difficult early access launch, and postponing the rollout of new areas and features . Nothing they've done since appears to have shored up the game's numbers, and I've been grimly awaiting the day when Might & Delight pull servers and render the project unplayable - as is sadly common for games with mandatory online components, despite vociferous consumer preservation efforts . They have, in fact, just announced that they're pulling those servers on 31st July.…

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