Xsyon: Prelude

Xsyon: Prelude is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in an apocalyptic future. Most of modern life has disappeared, including vehicles, weapons, appliances, computers and even books about them. You play a survivor whose memories of the old world are fading and who must adapt to ancient ways.

A changing world

Players shape Xsyon’s world by gathering resources, chopping down trees, hunting animals, building towns and developing trade. Its environmental, natural, economic, questing and social systems are in constant flux, and players’ actions determine the world’s state. You can help maintain a balance with nature or work to build a new civilization.

The fantasy setting draws on real-world geography, history, science and medicine. Its fauna and geology are slightly altered versions of real ones, and you can learn about the world while choosing armor materials, combining recipe ingredients or investigating local geography.

Choose your path

You can play as a warrior, trader, craftsman or crop cultivator, specialize in skills or become a jack of all trades. You can lead a clan, serve as a town official, engage with other players or explore alone as an adventurer.

You begin with a decent set of statistics and enter the world inexperienced and lacking skill, but with strengths and weaknesses. Rather than grinding levels toward predictable goals, progress centers on change, interactions and consequences. New quests, lands and features are introduced over time, giving you more to discover.