8. Albion Online

Albion Online Trailer

Albion is a land where newcomers are not usually welcome. It’s a hostile place filled with ravenous wolves and foxes and dark cultists who follow the teachings of Morgana. But the King has decided it would be wise to settle there. And after years of failed attempts at creating settlements, he has finally created a safe enough place where civilians can settle. That’s where you come in.

This game is all about building up a whole new civilization. As a settler there are numerous jobs available to you. You can specialize in guarding carts; you can be a trader, a blacksmith, pretty much anything you want. It is so specialized, in fact, that you don’t just choose a broad job category. You can choose a specialization within that job to focus on. For example, you can choose to be the best-darned shield maker in the whole kingdom.

And you aren’t locked into that job either. If you decide that today you want to be a mage and tomorrow you want to be a warrior, you can with a simple of change of clothes or weaponry. Mages fight with staffs and warriors with swords so pick up a sword and be a warrior or pick up a staff and be a Mage. It’s a truly different look at class systems in games.

There aren’t just quests either, the whole world needs to be built. You can’t just go and buy a dagger that the game developer added into the game. You or someone in your town needs to make one and sell it to others.

And there are guilds to join and wars to fight. You don’t have to focus on just the crafting.  Unlike a lot of sandbox style games, this one has a pretty rich story behind it waiting for you to discover.

Albion Online Gameplay

Take on Morgana’s forces to establish order

Create your home and design it too