Wyvern

Wyvern is an old-school graphical MMO-RPG set in a large, varied world. You explore and fight in real time through a top-down, tile-based 2D view, while a text panel reports events, chat and other information. The game also provides views for spells, inventory and stats, along with custom views for particular situations.

Commands and character building

Wyvern is command-oriented, with hundreds of commands for social interactions and emotes, appraising, crafting and managing your inventory. You can bind commands to keyboard hotkeys and create aliases and macros to speed up play.

You can choose from 17 player races, including humans, elves, fighting cats, giants and vampires. A Guild system lets you specialize and refine your character’s abilities. More than 100 spells can be learned or used through wands, rods and magic items.

Quests and dungeons

The world contains hundreds of playable areas, including cities, towns, crypts, dungeons, ruins and underwater realms. You can take on over 50 quests, many with elaborate challenges and distinctive, powerful rewards. The Random Dungeon system generates ongoing levels of monsters and loot.

More than 500 monsters can wield weapons, cast spells, fire missiles and use wands; summoned creatures can do the same. Player groups, support roles and adventuring facilities support group play, while raid bosses, Live Quests and other endgame events offer further challenges. At level 25, you can upload a custom image as your character’s avatar.

Building and world systems

Builder Mode is a level editor that anyone can use to create areas. The world is supported by thousands of objects used for its economy, quests, missions, guilds and other systems.

Despite its 2D tile-based view, Wyvern includes lighting and a day-and-night cycle; missiles, projectiles, throwables and area-of-effect spells; and interactive objects such as pushable objects, levers, gates, vehicles and mechanical traps. Damage comes in over a dozen types, with resistances, immunities and vulnerabilities. Certain quests and areas use a built-in side-scroller engine with gravity, friction and other effects. A camera system supports scrying, wizard-eye and detect-monsters abilities, and the body-parts system lets characters such as a hydra (naga) player wear five helmets and five amulets. The game also includes audio effects and background music.

Multiplayer and progression

Wyvern’s player community includes long-time and newer players. The game has a steep learning curve, and a starting tutorial introduces its fundamentals.

The highest level currently available is Demigod (level 50). Most of the game is available to everyone, and paid perks are designed around convenience rather than an unfair competitive advantage. Wyvern Crowns are an optional in-game currency; examples of Crown perks include early access to a custom character image, converting Crowns to gold based on experience level, transferring items between your characters as a VIP, and buying a Private Jet to save travel time. VIPs who purchase a certain number of Crowns also get access to a special lounge, a store with 20% off, and a few other minor perks. The description states that 99.99% of the game is available to everyone.