Archeage vs My Time at Portia
Archeage
Archeage is one of the world's most innovative and outstanding, fantasy-themed sandbox MMORPG that's set in the vast gorgeous world of Auroria. Unlike many other similar games, Archeage offers a lot of freedom and variety to its players to create the characters that they want - 21 different vocations are definitely more than enough. The game is not merely an MMO where you simply complete quests, run dungeons and fight in PvP arenas; Instead, you will even get to enjoy a slew of other fun activities like sailing, gliding, composing music or home building and decorating. Let's not forget the game's amazing justice system where players who have broken game rules, such as killing other players without provocation, will be placed in front of a panel of juries - also chosen from the player population to face judgment.Despite facing intense competition from recent MMOs like Skyforge or Revelation Online, Archeage is still going pretty strong, mainly because of its loyal playerbase and partly because the game's just wonderful to play. If you have not tried this game before and you are a fan of MMO, you owe it to yourself to at least give this special game a go. Sign up today!
My Time at Portia
My Time at Portia is a charming fantasy-themed adventure RPG that is set on a gorgeous, revitalized world after a post-apocalyptic event wiped out the previous technologically-advanced civilization. In this game, you play as an up-and-coming Builder, a respected role in society, whose sole purpose is to help solve the town's problems by engineering a solution.With a gameplay which may fondly remind you of games like Harvest Moon, My Time at Portia may be grindy in an RPG sort of way (think repeated dungeon runs or resource-harvesting), but the game has a nice relaxing pace, where its quests (both main and side quests) are slowly revealed as you progress. Being a Builder, you can also complete a commission request daily to collect some cash. The game also features an elaborate gifting/relationship-building system, fun ruin-diving areas, tons of interesting characters to meet, and challenging dungeons. You can even romance and eventually marry an NPC (not all though) you like!
The best part of the game is definitely its in-depth crafting system. There are tons of machines you can build to help you generate a wide variety of materials to build other stuff. You can also unlock new machine technologies via the Research Center.
My Time at Portia feels a lot like an adorable MMORPG minus the MMO part. It has the grind, the dungeon runs... but of course, this game places a lot more emphasis on its resource-collecting, as well as crafting and building aspects. Sounds like a game you'd like to play? Well, despite still being in early access, the first chapter of the game is already ready and bugs-free, so if you do buy the game, know that you can at least get a good 40 hours or so out of it.