Personalized Character

We practice a philosophy of infinite character customization. Our dream is to see players able to create virtually any character imaginable across the entire spectrum of genres, aesthetics, styles, and fashion, giving new life to the meaning of individuality. Players can also shift between characters and classes at will, without any requirement for extraneous time sinks. Long grinds are still very much a part of the game.

1,000 Unique Avatar Types

Our long-term development goal is to give our art team the time and resources to one day create 1,000 unique avatar types. This means characters across all races and classes can select from and personalize many kinds of character, unrestricted by any conventional concepts of race/class affinity.

Magic Realms

Chaoscraft follows a path beyond a set MMO overworld, descending into the depths of a highly experimental infinite sandbox engine designed to empower players to create beautifully detailed Magic Realms hosting their own custom denizens and creatures, governments and laws, physics and climates, and aesthetics and textures.

Five Class Types

Five class types encompass new and old forms of familiar archetypes: Warrior, Demonic, Psychic, Rogue, and Wizard. Classes tailor custom builds and weapon selections, with no strict limitations on the kinds of weapons each class can wield.

Evolving Worlds

Otherworld diverges dramatically from static world models: Using the actual capabilities of modern engines, worlds exist in a state of perpetual flux, slowly growing populations and ecosystems vulnerable to true destruction – not pretend doom. Advanced procedural generation allows for overworlds to morph in terrain and architecture week to week. Living personalities, genuine mortality, and a theme of contrasting evolution and permanence pervade, making realms feel alive and void of systematic structure.

Reimagined Progression

Chaoscraft reshapes progression itself, drawing from long-existing archetypes and blending them with new energies and directions. Progression exists in the eye of the beholder: Each individual chooses their own path, in a truly nonlinear, unstructured story written by the heart. Gear, wealth, collections, rank, prestige, and real personal homes in player-built Magic Realms all play a part in how progression is measured, weaving PvP, PvM, and HC together and ensuring fights remain fair and skill shines at the forefront.

Map Randomization

In ranked versus and hardcore PvM, a mix of Named Maps and randomized Mystery Maps creates a chaotic and eclectic competitive experience where each day brings new and altered arenas and dimensions, whether among the ranks of PvP or PvM.

Immersive Realism

We aim to be the first MMO to perfect a form of rated M magical realism based in lifelike perception, skillshot combat, and, in HC, legit permadeath. This is a no-holds-barred philosophy seeing the universe itself as the ultimate game template.

Mounts & Vehicles

Chaoscraft has in the works open world mounts and vehicles, all of which can, in the spirit of immersive realism, be killed or destroyed, setting the stage for epic and comical scenes and encounters involving living mounts and real vehicles both ground and aerial. It’s a shitshow waiting to happen and we’re here for it.

Elite Rewards

For the first time in a long time, we’re going to see a competitive MMO with true Rank 1 rewards – in the literal sense of Rank 1. We aren’t playing semantic games with the term, defining it in ways akin to a participation trophy. Rank 1 in this game means the real deal, further setting the stage for some action-packed high-stakes drama.

Exotic Collectibles

Gear, weapons, pets, devices, mounts and vehicles, and trinkets often exist as exotic pieces very tough to come by and, in some cases, demanding descent into hardcore realms and journeys. Exotics break from the precedent of more or less widely available gear and items, shaping collections into very special, flavorful rares.

Hidden Secrets

A magician’s creed keeps the magic in magic show: Cards remain facedown. No adventure guide. No reliable wiki. This sounds impossible because no one devotes the effort to mix it up on this level. Unannounced alterations, hidden secrets, and a shroud of mystery foster an atmosphere of unknown outer limits, where it becomes impossible to say what one could find at any given time. We know how difficult it can be to encrypt game secrets. To preserve the magic of the game, an MMO with such erratic preplanned updates, a flux state world, endogenous alterations and variations, and random misinformation makes data-mining much tougher.

Intelligent Bosses

Both world and raid bosses adapt to new advancements in engines and AI, attaining an intelligence beyond what’s commonly considered polite. Bosses think, strategize, and adapt to new situations as we would expect them to, shifting fluidly and striking weaknesses. To complicate matters, bosses have totally unknown life pools, unknown spellbooks, and can evolve over time like players.

Unscripted Villains

This rule that villains must all be scripted pushovers is boring and predictable, and due for a revamp. One day, with just a little bit of imagination and willingness to think outside the box, the villains who drive the story will have minds of their own just like you. If this also sounds impossible, well… Keep reading…

Novel Experiments

Chaoscraft is, above all, a grand experiment. This is why it isn’t being published on any major distribution platform. It’s going to be a bit spicier and stranger than the average game, and this means it takes MMO scope and scale to a level of unpredictable chaos and risk anathema to the average studio. Experiment for the sake of experiment, fun for the sake of fun – these are invaluable principles.

No MTX, RMT, or P2W

Botters, hackers, and cheaters have totally ruined the MMO world, reducing what was once a beautiful original landscape to a rotten hollow shell half-populated by mindless machines. This era is donezo and there’s a very simple reason for it: Scorched Earth anti-cheat, in development to be the most extreme security system implemented by any developer, not because developers couldn’t, but because none have had the will to take anti-cheat this far.

Softcore & Hardcore WPvP

For the many who enjoy World PvP, Chaoscraft realms offer a choice of softcore, risk, and hardcore, as well as singles and multi, featuring WPvP for players of all walks and alignments. In hardcore realms, players stake their life and bank, bringing the meaning of permadeath back to its original roots.

Voice Modifiers

With infinite character and class customization, and a spirit of realism, comes the tradition of fantasy voice modifiers. These allow a player to adjust how they sound in-game based on their race and class, just one of the many novel features possible with technology.

Dark Carnival

A monthly Dark Carnival brings insane clowns and wacky freaks from across Otherworld to enjoy a colorful assortment of games and rides. Patrons collect Dark Carnival Tokens from the Carnival and their adventures, saving up for some of the biggest prizes…

Arena Book

On a player’s Personal Device and Arcadia Casino, an Arena Book offers betting on live rated 1v1 and 5v5 matches. Bettors watch matches as they unfold, winning or losing essence on the outcome. The Arena Book is one of several forms of in-game gambling.

Racing Circuit

As development in 1.0 continues, we plan the release of a ranked Racing Circuit. Racers buy and mod custom craft, selecting a mode and choosing from softcore and hardcore tracks. Permadeath is not limited to traditional HC, but extends to other challenges like racing, intensely heightening suspense.

True Dragons

Dragons in Chaoscraft are also not pushovers. When we say… dragons… we mean it… Ever seen them before? We all know what true dragons are like, what some of them breathe, and what devastation they can wreak on the world. Olden dragons make a cinematic return in Chaoscraft, their story yet to be written.

Chaoscraft Grand Finals

Every Halloween season, the highest-ranked players from around the world convene in fabulous Las Vegas for a massive prize event, hosting the Grand Finals of every ranked ladder: Arena, TDM, BR, the Racing Circuit, and all the Ranked Hardcore. You heard us right. We want to host hardcore LAN events, live!

World Chaos Tournament

On Halloween night, the 10,000 entry World Chaos Tournament submerges the bravest and craziest into a labyrinth-style tournament venue combining several forms of PvP and PvM. As phases continue and flights dwindle, the final two survivors face off on live broadcast in a hardcore duel to the death for a million bucks!

Legendary Odysseys

In the spirit of old fantasy, written long before the first MMO, world-unique legendary weapons return. Obtained from extremely long, arduous, perilous Odysseys spanning at most 400 nights and a series of cryptic mysteries, these powerful weapons are one-of-a-kind like their historical predecessors. A single soul wields each at a time, forcing epic confrontations between those few who earn the ability to wield the same weapon and so seek each other’s demise.