Hopefully they can take that stretch toward beta and make the game more widely available. Who knows, Valiance Online is clearly in active development with things to show for it. I remember playing a pre-alpha four or five years ago and just very quickly losing interest as the game was many years off of release. As a title that started very early compared to the other COH successors, I feel like Valiance Online may have blew its load too soon.

The news section hasn’t seen an update since November 2018, the forum is a mess to navigate, and the Twitter also has not been updated since November 2019 during the latest maintenance update. If there is one complaint that can be lobbied at the Valiance Online people it is that their communication is terrible. From a quick glance it looks like the alpha server was taken down back in November 2019 for a big update and has not yet come back up. The investor alpha was made available back in October 2017 and those interested in getting in on the project can donate a minimum of $25 to gain access to founders perks.

Valiance Online is the Unity-built successor to City of Heroes and one of the few on this list that did not run a (successful) Kickstarter/Indiegogo campaign. In no particular order because God forbid I get emails asking why one project was listed above another, let’s just dive in.

Are any of these games actually going to see their way to completion? It’s been eight years.

Do we even need these titles now that they have taken so long to release that a secret underground moleman community has been discovered and shared their private server with the world? Who knows. Now I’m not going to name names (because I don’t actually remember who did it) but having a PR rep from a volunteer project reach out to chastise me for not mentioning their game in an article about City of Heroes, and to imply that I was being paid by another project to not mention them? Eventually it’s not worth talking about anybody.īut 2020 is a new year and a new decade and the fervor over NCSoft is over, and I’d like to know where the Kickstarter money I threw in seven years ago went, so it’s time to catch up on those City of Heroes successors. Every once in a while I get an email asking “Connor, why don’t you talk about those various City of Heroes successor games?” That’s an oddly specific question, and one that harkens back to a time where any article I wrote about NCSoft would result in a flurry of emails threatening to boycott my website or trying to get me fired for not mentioning whatever CoH successor was crowdfunding.

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