In 2017, Secondhand Lands rose from the dead, lurching back to life courtesy of Steam's Greenlight project. Except, as we are coming to understand, MMORPGs are about as good at surviving supposed extinction events as cockroaches are the apocalypse. Secondhand Lands, the creation of indie dev Bobby Thurman, ran for just three years as part of the Pixel Mines Games launcher (something else I've never heard of), closing in 2012 due to ' having a miniscule playerbase'.ДЄnd that, you would imagine, was that.

You'd think I might have found occasion to play it at least once if it's been running for a decade.Д®xcept it hasn't. As this piece from (a very interesting website I really should look at regularly) describes it it, the game sounds right up my street. Secondhand Lands launched in January 2009. On the face of it, there certainly seems to have been plenty of time for that to have happened and for me to have forgotten it. Given that I had to excise several paragraphs from yesterday's post because I was describing - as if completely new to me - something I'd actually posted about in considerable detail less than a month ago, it's entirely possible someone's going to pop up and tell me they've not only written extensively about the game but quote my comments on it from their comments column. Even more surprising, I don't recall anyone else talking about it either, although I'm sure Xyzzysqrl must have at least mentioned it at some point. The more I learn about the game, the more astonishing it seems that I haven't tried it before.

I remember reading something once about some MMORPG that was based on fairy tales. I'd vaguely heard of it, or at least I think I had. Somehow, though, there always seems to be just one more cookie in the jar. Given that I have, over the last twenty years or so, downloaded something like a couple of hundred MMOs, that doesn't leave a whole lot that I haven't tried. I also rule out virtually everything with isometric or top-down graphics for the simple reason that I don't enjoy playing them. Some are region-locked or only available on specific platforms. Plenty of the titles listed closed long ago. If you're just looking for something new to play, it's easy to narrow the choice to a more manageable number. Clearly the exact number is in some dispute. I was already well past two hundred by then, which is the sum total of all the MMOs listed on the Wikipedia list of massively multiplayer games. I tried to count the rest to get a grand total but I lost patience somewhere in the 'Ds'. lists sixty-five MMOs beginning with with the letter 'A' alone. You might think that there weren't many left that I haven't at least looked at but you would be wrong. Because I clearly have no self-control at all, on Monday I decided it was time I tried a new MMORPG.

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