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Swords & Crystals Online
A huge open-world old-school 2D top-down MMORPG packed with monsters, quests, puzzles, and challenging bosses. Explore vast lands, train skills, level up, team up with other players, collect rare gear, and climb leaderboards. Now in Beta Phase 1.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“It's silly and goofy in a good way, but I do not like the ui or how it works, it's way too much work to do simple things like checking you inventory or map or anything because its all put on your mouse scroll wheel and you have to click on the thing you want to bring up on top…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“I like simple movement game that have many things to do like this. There are many things to learn in tutorial and it can be a little annoying but I will give it a go for now. Tried to go past tutorial but the server seems like undergoing maintenance. Well, I can understand that…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“An ambitious game for sure that was unfortunately made by someone way out of their depths. Animations are awful, there is no customization to speak of other than what looks like a zombie skin one has to buy, the ambiance and sound effects are grating to the ears, controls are…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
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Content upgrade & fixes | Major v0.1.94
A huge new update has arrived, bringing tons of new content, systems, balance changes, and fixes to greatly expand and improve the overall game experience. 🌋NEW A real volcano is now visible on Dark V
Content upgrade & fixes | Minor v0.1.93
NEW Players can now teleport to their home location once every 15 min CHANGES Balanced XP gain from few monsters and quests FIXES Bug fixed that changes to the In-game custom keybinds for the characte
Content upgrade & fixes | Minor v0.1.92.1
NEW Added a Hearthstone like item (Soul Village) for all players, so you can teleport back (15 min CD) Players that gets struck somewhere can now unstuck with the Hearthstone like item (Soul Village)
HOTFIX FOR CHAT CRASHING THE GAME
FIXES Fixed a bug where opening the chat would crash the game
Content upgrade & fixes | Minor v0.1.92
NEW Class customization system with new abilities and buffs New Brain Panel in the in-game menu Item and enemy loot tables available in the main menu Several new items and equipment added BALANCE CHAN
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Exploration · Hack and Slash · 2D Platformer · Collectathon · Dungeon Crawler · PvE · PvP · Action RPG · Fantasy · MMORPG · Character Customization · RPG (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Full controller support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Official site | https://swordsandcrystals.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 and above Processor: Intel i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible GPU DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 1 GB available space