Defend the Night is a new MMORPG where you must protect yourself from the dark night. The online role-playing game focuses less on common quests and more on large events.
What is Defend the Night? The MMORPG aims to do things differently while still providing players with the challenges that MMORPGs used to offer.
- You create your hero from 11 classes, which are divided into Healers, Tanks, and Damage Dealers. The developers have not yet revealed which classes they are.
- There are no typical fetch or kill quests.
- Grinding is minimized.
- The game emphasizes epic events where players must cooperate.
- You build your own fortress that you can even develop into a town.
- Fights will function classically via tab-targeting.
- You improve your hero based on talents.
- You will only get better through practice and gameplay.
- There are dungeons and raids with bosses that you can only defeat in a group.
- Guilds play a significant role.
Based on the first trailer, you get a glimpse of the gameplay:
Fear the Night!
What is the story about? You live in a large fantasy world that at first glance does not differ much from other MMORPGs. There you gather resources to expand your fortress, fight monsters, and experience adventures with friends.
But when night falls, you’d better seek shelter. Because the creatures of the night pose a great danger. They will attack your settlements to destroy you.
What is special about the game? Defend the Night wants to impress you with an interesting system. While you fight each other in PvP battles during the day, you must cooperate at night. Because only by defending your fortresses and towns together can you survive.
The MMORPG aims to move away from grinding and repetitive quests in MMORPGs. Instead, the developers focus on large events in which you can participate. Successfully completing such events will reward you with experience points that you can use to improve your hero.
Many questions remain unanswered
Will it be a Free2Play game? Currently, the team is still considering which path to take. Defend the Night could appear as a Free2Play game or as a subscription MMORPG. The subscription seems to be the current preference. However, players would then be able to play for free through a limited demo mode.
When will the MMORPG be released? The team currently cannot provide a date. Defend the Night has been in development since mid-2017 and is currently in internal alpha testing.
How is the development funded? Currently, the team operates a merchandise store, where you can buy T-shirts with the game’s logo. The revenues flow into the development.
Once the internal tests have progressed further, the developers plan to start a crowdfunding campaign. However, they want to have the game in a well-presentable state so that supporters can get a good impression of the title.
In addition, founder packages are to be offered in the future. However, there is no information about this yet.
