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Persist Online is an MMORPG with zombies, so you better grab yourself a gun. Level up in an unforgiving open world where you can enter every building. Form a deadly team with friends to claim what’s not yours. Take your loot to the Safehouse and craft perfect gear. Some survive. The best persist!
Persist Online is an MMORPG with zombies, so you better grab yourself a gun. Level up in an unforgiving open world where you can enter every building. Form a deadly team with friends to claim what’s not yours. Take your loot to the Safehouse and craft perfect gear. Some survive. The best persist!

Join forces with other survivors to keep the zombies at bay and take on mutated bosses in an open world that gets deadlier the farther you go. Beware of other players looking to relieve you of your hard-earned loot on the way to safety. Form a guild and conquer strategic sectors on the map to stockpile resources faster. Survive in a living world full of the undead!

Unlike in fantasy MMORPGs, waving a magic wand won’t help you in Persist Online. Instead, you can choose from a variety of firearms. However – even though going in guns blazing is fun, be aware that zombies and mutants are drawn to loud noise. By bashing zombies with a hammer you might live to see another day, which is a smart move in any apocalypse.

The company behind Persist Online operates one of the longest-running MMORPGs ever: Tibia, released in 1997. True to that legacy, Persist Online is a tough old-school experience. You can lose everything you’ve looted, so be careful when someone seems a little too friendly. Or let your best shotgun do the talking and walk away with their loot instead.

Sure, you can fight your way through hordes of zombies to find a rifle that rolled with exactly the right mods. Or you could craft one from scratch and forge it into a gun that perfectly fits your playstyle. To unlock the full potential of its mods, you’ll of course have to leave the Safehouse and kill plenty of undead – only now, you’re doing it with your new favorite weapon.

There are no classes in Persist Online. Just play your character however you want, and invest the points you earn in one of the many available skill trees. For example, progressing in Mechanics not only lets you dismantle washing machines more efficiently. It also lets you place a distracting robot and use it to save teammates who didn’t level as cleverly as you did.

Explore an open world that’s not only grand in scale but also big on details. Every building can be entered, but it might become a deadly trap. Since the post-apocalypse isn’t all sunshine, expect dynamic weather and a meaningful day-night cycle. Nothing is stopping you from riding into the sunset – except for everything in this world that wants to kill you.
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