Craft-o-fight-a-build Wurm Online is one of the MMORPGs I’ve always been more interested in hearing stories from than actually playing myself. Go read Graham’s heartwarming tale, perhaps, or Quinns’s murdertale. On the flipside, I’ve heard too much griping about grinding and frustration. Well, spin-off Wurm Unlimited [official site] can change that if you want, perhaps making it the friendlier face of Wurm.

Released yesterday, Wurm Online lets folks run their own servers, whether simply to play alone or to tweak settings and make life easier for their chums.

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Wurm Online [official site] is the sandbox MMO co-founded by one Markus Persson back in 2003, but he left in 2007 to pursue other interests. You might have heard of one of them. While he hasn’t been involved for years, you don’t have to look far to see shared DNA in Wurm and Minecraft: Java-based, building-focused survival in an open world, where everything but the landscape is created by players. It lacks the immediacy of Minecraft (to say the least) and never saw anything like the success, but has its fervent fans – including Graham of this parish, and Quintin formerly of this parish.

Now, a brand new version/spin-off of Wurm is coming to Steam, with an offline option and private server support: does the mainstream await? … [visit site to read more]