Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Scars of Honor is a new free-to-play MMORPG aiming for that old-school fantasy MMO feel, with a very obvious vanilla WoW-inspired style, race/class identity, and a unique Scar system that could make one character play differently from another character of the same class.
I got into the Scars of Honor playtest and spent about an hour with it to see what the game actually feels like in its current state. This is not a full MMO review, because you cannot really fully review an MMORPG in an hour, but you can absolutely tell if the first hour makes you want to keep playing.
Right now? It is rough.
There are some things here that I do like. The talent tree is interesting. The Scar system sounds compelling, even though I did not get to explore it as much as I wanted. The game is clearly trying to capture that older World of Warcraft / classic MMORPG feeling with factions, class identity, fantasy races, open-world questing, gathering, crafting, and slower MMO friction.
But the current playtest build has a lot of problems.
Fullscreen caused issues, animations were rough, enemies and NPCs were invisible, some abilities did not seem to work properly, quests got weird, the writing did not do much for me, and the loot system had me picking up every little item off the ground after already looting the thing. I do not think every MMO needs to be perfectly streamlined, but friction has to add something. If the extra steps do not make the game more fun, they are just wasting time.
And that is really where I landed with Scars of Honor right now. You can handwave away a lot of early-build issues if the game underneath is fun. In this playtest, the current state of the game just was not fun enough for me to want to keep playing.
There may be something here in a couple years. I would like to come back and see how the talent system, Scar system, class design, and world develop. But right now, this feels like it was put in front of players too early.
This is my Scars of Honor MMORPG playtest first look, gameplay impressions, and early review.
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Scars of Honor is a new free-to-play MMORPG aiming for that old-school fantasy MMO feel, with a very obvious vanilla WoW-inspired style, race/class identity, and a unique Scar system that could make one character play differently from another character of the same class.
I got into the Scars of Honor playtest and spent about an hour with it to see what the game actually feels like in its current state. This is not a full MMO review, because you cannot really fully review an MMORPG in an hour, but you can absolutely tell if the first hour makes you want to keep playing.
Right now? It is rough.
There are some things here that I do like. The talent tree is interesting. The Scar system sounds compelling, even though I did not get to explore it as much as I wanted. The game is clearly trying to capture that older World of Warcraft / classic MMORPG feeling with factions, class identity, fantasy races, open-world questing, gathering, crafting, and slower MMO friction.
But the current playtest build has a lot of problems.
Fullscreen caused issues, animations were rough, enemies and NPCs were invisible, some abilities did not seem to work properly, quests got weird, the writing did not do much for me, and the loot system had me picking up every little item off the ground after already looting the thing. I do not think every MMO needs to be perfectly streamlined, but friction has to add something. If the extra steps do not make the game more fun, they are just wasting time.
And that is really where I landed with Scars of Honor right now. You can handwave away a lot of early-build issues if the game underneath is fun. In this playtest, the current state of the game just was not fun enough for me to want to keep playing.
There may be something here in a couple years. I would like to come back and see how the talent system, Scar system, class design, and world develop. But right now, this feels like it was put in front of players too early.
This is my Scars of Honor MMORPG playtest first look, gameplay impressions, and early review.
👍 Don't forget to Like, Sub and Share! Thank you.
🕹️ xxxSTEAMLINKxxx
If there's a game you'd like me to check out, feel free to contact me below.
#ScarsOfHonor #MMORPG #MMO #RPG #Gaming #MMOReview #MMORPGGameplay #FantasyMMO #PCGaming #ShadowsThoughts
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