Albion Online - MMORPG & sandbox gameplay

Embark on a free-to-play adventure set in a vast open world, featuring intense PvE and PvP battles, a dynamic player-controlled economy, and a groundbreaking classless system where your gear defines your abilities. Roam the diverse landscapes to engage in thrilling combat, stake claims in territories, and establish your own homestead for agricultural pursuits and animal husbandry.

MULTI-PLATFORM ENGAGEMENT: Albion Online offers a seamless MMO experience across various platforms. Enjoy the game on desktop or mobile devices using a single account.

IMMERSE IN A RICH ENVIRONMENT: Traverse through five distinct biomes to gather resources, fish in waters, brave dungeons with valuable spoils, and navigate mystical avenues like the Roads of Avalon for unique passages within zones. Engage in high-stakes, full-loot PvP encounters in red and black zones, or opt for safer locations suited for harvesting and PvE ventures.

PREPARE FOR BATTLE: Challenge fellow adventurers in risky yet rewarding PvP showdowns. Enhance your combat proficiencies, devise exclusive strategies, and participate in 1v1 duels in Corrupted Dungeons, and 5v5 skirmishes in the Arena and Crystal Realm.

PLAYER-DRIVEN MARKET: Crafted by players in their own establishments and from resources procured by them, nearly every item in the game can be acquired through trading and bartering in local markets scattered throughout Albion’s realm.

ADAPT AND THRIVE: Through Albion Online's unrestricted combat scheme, adapt your skills based on the equipment you don. Evolve by crafting new items, utilizing different gear, and progressing through RPG-style skill trees on the Destiny Board.

CONFRONT DANGER: Various factions with unique adversaries inhabit Albion’s realm. Encounter diverse challenges by tackling solo/group Expeditions, or face demons and adversaries in Hellgates and Corrupted Dungeons, offering ultimate thrills.

DOMINATE THE REALM: Unite with a guild to claim dominions across Albion. Seize territories affording coveted resources, construct guild sanctuaries, establish Hideouts, and monitor your guild's progress on global leaderboards. Alternatively, enlist in a City Faction and engage in continent-wide Faction Campaigns.

ESTABLISH A HAVEN: Stake a claim on a city plot or private island to nurture it according to your preferences. Cultivate crops, raise livestock and mounts, erect crafting facilities, personalize your abode with custom furnishings and collectibles, safeguard loot in chests, and employ laborers to aid in gathering and crafting activities.

Beginner’s Guide

Fame and Fortune

Combat Fame, which lets you level up your weapons and armor, can be gained by fighting mobs in these early stages. These can be found in the open world or in dungeons, but a great way to get started is by playing Expeditions. Each Starter Town has an Expedition Master near its center – visible by its large, glowing, blue portal – and visiting them will allow you to play a quick Expedition where you fight your way through mobs.

These offer plenty of Fame and Silver early on, easing your progress in the world. Once you’ve played some Expeditions, try your hand at some solo dungeons in the open world. These are more challenging but offer considerably more Silver and Fame as you improve your combat skills.

As you gain Fame and Silver, and unlock higher tiers of weapons and armor, you’ll want to start upgrading your equipment. Head to the Marketplace, where you can search for new items and mounts, and spend some of your hard-won Silver. Items can be filtered by their type and tier, and if you try to purchase an item that you can’t yet equip the game will warn you.

Gathering and Crafting

Along with combat, Albion offers a whole player-driven, resource-based economy that you can get stuck into. Grab a bag and some tools from the marketplace, and venture out into the open world to start gathering. As mentioned above, each biome specialises in one of five basic resources: Mountains/Ore, Forest/Wood, Steppe/Hide, Swamp/Fiber, and Highlands/Stone.

These resources come in tiers of increasing value, and gathering higher-tier resources requires higher-tier tools. Like weapons and armor, these tools require progression on the Destiny Board in their specific branch before they can be unlocked – which you can achieve by gaining Fame through gathering. Resources can be refined into other materials at stations in the Cities and Towns, and in turn crafted into weapons and armor. Or you can sell them directly at the Marketplace for Silver and simply buy the items you desire this way.

Many players look to specialise in gathering and crafting, and a whole host of economic gameplay possibilities exist here, such as trading, supplying crafters, or even owning Crafting Stations to generate Silver as players use them.

PvP Combat

Albion is not all about fighting mobs and working with resources though. A central pillar of the game is player-versus-player combat. But don’t be afraid of this! PvP is not possible in all areas, so you don’t have to expose yourself to it as you find your way around the game. In short, Albion’s open world has four zone types, which can be seen underneath the minimap in the bottom-right corner of your screen:

Blue Zones: PvP is not allowed.

Yellow Zones: You can choose to be attackable by flagging as hostile; combat losses result only in knockdown, not death.

Red and Black Zones: You can kill or be killed, and death results in the loss of items you’re carrying; on the other hand, victory lets you loot your enemy’s items.

Remember, that even in red and black zones, death will never result in the loss of Silver or Gold, only items.

When you decide to enter more dangerous regions in search of more valuable mobs and resources, there are a few simple rules that can help you survive and thrive:

Keep an eye on the edges of your screen for nearby hostile players, and be prepared to flee

When on foot, remain close to your mount so you can escape quickly

Don’t carry too much weight – being overburdened slows you down

Select abilities on your items that offer speed benefits

The minimap can show hostile players, large groups, or recent kills – avoid these areas if you wish to avoid combat

When attacked, fighting back will prevent you leaving the zone during combat – it may be best not to fight if you wish to make a quick getaway

Last but not least, the golden rule: don’t go into PvP zones with gear you can’t afford to replace!