Oath Rift Online

Oath Rift Online is a stylised anime MMO inspired by Sword Art Online, made to be played two ways: in virtual reality, or on PC with keyboard and mouse. In VR you fight with your body, swinging blades, drawing bows and casting spells with both hands. On PC you play in classic third person, with the same world, combat and progression, and you can switch between the two at any time. Most adventures happen on the Island, a large open world of towns, forests, beaches and caves. Rifts open around it into dangerous dungeons, from a haunted night forest to the goblin-infested Warrens beneath the Demon realm, where the Goblin General waits at the end. Characters grow through six attributes and nine classless skill trees, so you can build them however you like. You collect gear of rising rarity, upgrade and fuse it, and craft through five professions. The towns are full of life, with shopkeepers, healers and townsfolk going about their day, and cats and dogs that greet and play with them.

The story begins with an opening cutscene told by the High Seraphim. It then plays out in anime-style episodes, from the quiet beginnings of The Village to the mystery of Sherlock’s Mana Cores and the danger of The Rift. Alongside the main story there are side quests to pick up, parties and friends to adventure with, and an emote wheel of chibi emotion bubbles for saying hello without words. The rifts also threaten the world itself. Leave one uncleared too long and its monsters spill onto the Island to march on a town, and if no one stops them it grows into an Island-wide cataclysm. When that happens, everyone can join the world quest to push the horde back, and each player is rewarded for their share of the fight.