Try guild wars 2.
You can play without completly downloading it.
Its f2p and you can explore all together, since every starting map gets unlocked no matter what race you pick at the start.
It is also very easy to learn and you can even outlevel each other if anyone wanna keep playing in private, since you get levelcapped depending what map you are in.
Brilliant game design all around and still one of the best multiplayer games out there IMHO.
Ah well afaik there is no such thing but i started looking for hashtags of my hobbies and found some nice profiles.
After you follow a few of them you can look into the recommended tab and will see quite a few similar people.
Someone here also told me about LisaMelton. She will throw many cool things into your timeline if you follow her.
Im an idiotic old man who can barely repair my PC anymore and it was very easy to make an account here and on mastodon. Dunno what people are on about.
There is a discover people feature on my app at least.
I also kind of like it not to be bombarded with a useless algorithm just so i can doomscroll more. If you curate your feed with nice people and hashtags you get lots of traffic and if that gets too much you just make lists of topics within them.
There are sadly more companies with rapists in them than those two. It got swept under the rug faster.
They should be enraged about the rape apologists who are in charge of the company. But consumers forget fast when the shiny new thing is out.
Guild wars 2 has one of the best artstyles of any game IMO. Also very nice to just explore the world and the core game is free 2 play with a generous way to buy and keep forever without sub or mtx.
If i think about card games i have to mention “Inscryption” but it is very weird in a good way.
Then there are great positioning games like “Into the Breach” which has a very tight and simple gameplay loop and the Last Spell which is more complex with RPG elements.
Had fun with all 3 for very different reasons.
The Trine series is a fun 1-3 player game with a nice story and a few puzzles to play trough.
If you want to explore and do story on the side i can also always recommend Guild Wars 2. Base game is f2p so worthy of a look IMO.
Especially when they got so much hate from it. Logged in once i heard it was back up and getting those comments as a mod i would have just left and let it die tbh.
I am happy here but i wish more people would leave. As with twitter i will miss the artposts the most…
Coreborn was very nice. Cannot wait for it to be released next month.
It is a bit like Valheim and Rust but more chilled. Especially at the start. Very unique world based on a german Pen and Paper series.
Check out Spiritfarer. Very relaxing game where you sail around on a boat guiding spirits on their path to afterlife. Sounds grim but it is very colourful and everything is only implied.
You upgrade your boat by visiting islands and collecting resources. The cool thing about it is that the player 2 controls a cat that can jump around and helps with stuff. There is fishing, farming, cooking and crafting.
The characters and world is very childlike and there are many sparkly things to collect for your kid once he gets used to the controls.
I can always recommend Guild Wars 2. It is f2p but the base game still has alot of content with some restrictions to not get overrun by bots.
Big detailed world to explore together and do stories which you get every 10 levels. If you pick different races and decicions at character creation, it all converges after lvl 60.
You also unlock all waypoints for every starter zone from the get go, so you can play together immediatly.
It can feel very easy there so you might want to tackle zones above your level, but the game gets harder in the 80 zones, group content and the expansions. Especially in Heart of Thorns, where the whole jungle tries to kill you.
It has no subscription which makes it perfect to play and then take breaks and even if you outlevel your friends you get downscaled and still get loot, so you can help or the other way around.
It is still Guild Wars 2 for me.
It is very chill to play and only explore and it also has more challenging content if i feel like it. Best MMO out there. At least for me personally.
If anyone can show me the way to a guild wars 2 community here i would be grateful btw.
If you want to scratch a similar itch, and have not already, try Guild Wars 2.
It does have microtransactions, but only because they have no subscription fee and they are mostly cosmetic with a few rare exceptions.
It also has no FOMO except cosmetics from certain festivals, which you can also buy in the next year.
It is still the best MMO on the market IMHO, because it values your time and money compared to other games in the genre.