Throne and Liberty

We rate Throne and Liberty C tier, 5.5 out of 10. It is 7/10 in PvE but only 4/10 in fair pricing, and the guild PvP it was built for is down to 6/10 because too few people are left to fill it. Its best Steam month of 2026 peaked at 12,984 players, and NC took the game back from Amazon on Nov 10, 2026.

We rate Throne and Liberty C tier (5.5 out of 10). It is 7/10 in PvE but only 4/10 in fair pricing, and the guild PvP it was built for has slipped to 6/10. We think it is a handsome MMORPG that most players should skip: the six-player dungeons are worth a month, and the daily checklist and the paid currency are why people leave. Its best month of 2026 on Steam peaked at 12,984 players at once, against an all-time 333,393 in October 2024 (Steam Charts, read Nov 12, 2026). TheLazyPeon put it in his "positive" tier, B, in his MMORPG Tier List 2026 of Dec 11, 2025. We sit one tier lower, because a year of falling counts has emptied the large fights that earned his B.

We think NC merges or closes at least one Western realm now that it runs every platform as one service: the Steam average fell 43% in October 2026 alone, and a game built on 70-a-side guild fights cannot carry empty realms.

Confidence: Likely. Check by: Mar 2027.

3:06 Throne and Liberty changed hands this week. Amazon Game Studios handed live operations in the West to NC on Nov 10, 2026, and NC now runs the game itself through FirstSpark Games, the studio that develops it. A post of Nov 11 on the game's Steam announcements says maintenance is complete and servers are back for Steam, PURPLE, PlayStation and Xbox, which all play together. The update that came with the move, 4.20.0, removed Guild Alliances and reworked Skill Cores, as GameLeap's summary of the patch notes (Nov 9, 2026) lists them. The latest expansion is The Frozen Divide: Nix, out since Jun 25, 2026: the largest region so far, level 60, the Gauntlets weapon and two co-op dungeons. The game is free to play. It is a tab-target MMORPG with no fixed classes (you pair two weapons), built around guilds that fight over bosses and castles in one open world.

Scores

Category	Score	Why in one line
PvP	6/10	Guild fights of up to 70 a side and castle sieges on paper; thin queues and bloc politics in 2026
PvE	7/10	Six-player dungeons with timed blocks and dodges, open-world dungeons, a new continent in 2026
Solo play	5/10	Solo dungeons and a story to level 60, but progress runs through a daily and weekly checklist
Combat	5/10	Hits land with weight, but animation locks and stiff movement survive two years of fixes
Fair pricing	4/10	Free, but the paid currency buys gear and upgrade materials; the very best gear must be earned
Population	6/10	Highest monthly Steam peak of 2026: 12,984 in June (Steam Charts, read Nov 12, 2026)
Overall	5.5/10, C tier	Good group content on a shrinking base, sold with a currency that buys speed

Pros and cons

Pros

Guild against guild fights over Riftstones hold up to 70 players a side, a scale few live MMORPGs offer.
Dungeon bosses ask for timed blocks and, since 2025, timed dodges, so group PvE is more than a damage race.
Free on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PURPLE, and all four play together.
Nix roughly doubled the playable world and took random rolls out of gear progression, as MeinMMO reported on Jun 25, 2026.
One synced gear level lets you swap weapons and builds without leveling a second set.

Cons

Daily and weekly chores gate progress. This is the reason TheLazyPeon gave in 2025 for not coming back.
Lucent, bought with real money, buys gear and upgrade materials from other players.
Combat still locks you in place during many skills, and climbing, gliding and grappling feel stiff.
The Steam average fell from 5,996 in January 2026 to 2,513 in October 2026.
Cross-progression covers only Steam and PURPLE; PlayStation and Xbox characters stay where they are.

PvP: 6/10

4:45 The PvP is what the game was built for. Guilds fight over Riftstones and Boonstones, world bosses flip between peace and conflict, open-world dungeons turn hostile at night, and castle sieges sit on top. In his Oct 25, 2024 video, after 200 hours, TheLazyPeon called the Riftstone fights his favorite content and put their limit at 70 against 70.

Two years on, the design is the same and the crowd is not. 1:11 Spid, who makes guides for this game, said on Sep 28, 2026 that PvP was "dominated by big alliances" and that battlegrounds were "completely dead". The Nov 10, 2026 update then removed Guild Alliances outright, which is what he had asked for. We think that is the right fix and that it arrived late. A realm merge that refills sieges would lift this to 8; another year of decline would drop it to 4.

PvE: 7/10

7:01 Group PvE is better than the game's reputation. In TheLazyPeon's Apr 11, 2025 return he cleared the three-star co-op dungeons with random groups and praised the square perfect-dodge prompts added beside the circular blocks. Dungeons take six players, and the open-world dungeons are huge shared spaces.

The Frozen Divide added two more co-op dungeons and new world bosses, and Colossus Vegamor followed on Sep 24, 2026. We stop at 7 because nothing new has opened for geared players since Nix: Spid called Vegamor a weekly boss he could idle through, while telling new players there is plenty to do.

Solo play: 5/10

One player can level to 60 through the story, run solo dungeons for loot three times a week and explore Tumgir Hollow, the solo area Nix added. In his 2025 return TheLazyPeon found nothing memorable in the story from 50 to 55 and the solo dungeons slow as a tank.

The larger problem is the routine. Daily and weekly tasks decide how fast a character grows, so a solo player logs in to clear a list, and the best rewards sit behind guild content. We think one player gets a good month here, then a checklist.

Combat: 5/10

11:32 Combat is tab-target with a timed block, and it has weight: hits connect, shields push enemies into walls. In TheLazyPeon's Oct 5, 2024 review the complaint was "micro animation locks" that root you for half a second, and a cast that cancels if the target steps a hair out of range.

The developers fixed part of that list. By his 2025 return, melee no longer slowed while attacking, its range was longer and ranged casts had a buffer. He still said the combat felt "quite clunky". We think pairing weapons gives real build depth and that the feel in the hands is average. Fluid climbing, gliding and grappling would earn a 7.

Fair pricing: 4/10

The game costs nothing to download. Money enters through Lucent, the paid currency, which is also the Auction House currency: players who buy it can buy gear and upgrade materials from players who farmed them. Force Gaming laid this out from the Korean version on Feb 29, 2024, and added that paying players get strong faster, not stronger, because the top gear comes from bosses and guild events. TheLazyPeon said the same of the global version in October 2024: pay to win, with a lower ceiling than its rivals.

By our rule that is power sold but capped, so 4. There is no price to quote today. Lucent packs, Celebration Packs and the Character Boost were pulled from every store on Oct 26, 2026 for the handover, and the Nov 11 post says cash products and the Auction House stay closed for a short time.

Population: 6/10

The highest monthly peak of 2026 on Steam Charts is 12,984, in June, the month Nix launched (read Nov 12, 2026). By the rule that is a 6. We add no point for other platforms: PS5, Xbox and PURPLE players are missing from the figure, but nothing published shows that most people play there.

The trend is down. The monthly average was 5,996 in January, rose once to 5,831 in July after Nix, and fell to 2,513 in October, a 43% drop in one month and the steepest of the year. Aion 2, NC's own new MMORPG, launched worldwide on Oct 5, 2026 with 397,905 on Steam. We think it took a share of these players, though the chart cannot say why anyone left, and the Auction House also closed on Oct 26.

What creators say

10:40 TheLazyPeon has covered the game longest. In his tier list of Dec 11, 2025 he placed it in the positive tier for the scale of its multiplayer and its world, while saying it "definitely has a lot of problems". 9:17 His Apr 11, 2025 return ended with a no: he said he cannot stand MMOs "where daily chores are a large part of the endgame progression". We agree with his reasons and not his tier: the chores are still there, and the crowds he praised are smaller.

Spid, in the Sep 28, 2026 video played above, still called it "the best new gen" MMORPG and blamed upkeep: slow balance, no new content, developers who do not listen. He expected the Steam peak to sit at 6,000 to 7,000. October's was 5,823 and the last 30 days' 4,347. We think he is right about the cause and too kind about the game.

15:22 Force Gaming predicted the curve seven months before the global launch. On Feb 29, 2024 he guessed at a big launch "followed by a fairly massive decline" within one to two months. Steam Charts bears him out: a peak of 333,393 in October 2024 and 53,587 by January 2025. He blamed paid power and bots; TheLazyPeon blamed combat feel and chores. We side with TheLazyPeon: the shop was no different on the day 333,393 people were playing.

Who should play it, and who should not

It suits new players who want a free, handsome world and a month of six-player dungeons, and players with a guild ready to fight other guilds on a schedule.

It does not suit solo players who dislike dailies, or anyone who wants a level field with no paid currency. For large fights with no chore list, TheLazyPeon points to World versus World in Guild Wars 2, and for progress at your own pace to Old School RuneScape. He still rates the 2017 node wars of Black Desert Online above the guild fights here. NC's own newer MMORPG, Aion 2, had the far bigger launch in 2026.

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Throne & Liberty In 2025 "Is It Worth Playing?"

TheLazyPeon

3:06 Throne and Liberty changed hands this week. Amazon Game Studios handed live operations in the West to NC on Nov 10…
7:01 Group PvE is better than the game's reputation. In TheLazyPeon's Apr 11, 2025 return he cleared the three-star co-op…
9:17 His Apr 11, 2025 return ended with a no: he said he cannot stand MMOs "where daily chores are a large part of the…