Utopia (1998 video game)

Utopia is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing browser game that was developed and published by Mehul Patel, under the label of Solaria Interactive, Echelon Entertainment, and Swirve.com.

Using real-time strategy gameplay and text-based graphics, it takes place in a fantasy world during intervals of about 10-12 weeks called Ages.

It was quickly sold to Sean Blanchfield and Brian McDonnell of Scale Front Limited in 2009, who rewrote the game from scratch after a 2009 denial-of-service attack.

[1] However, they eventually allowed the game to stagnate with only minor changes and updates due to having full-time jobs in another company.

[2] At the beginning of each Age, the player chooses from a selection of numerous playable humanoid races,[4] faery, orc, dwarf, elf, halfling, undead, avian and human, as well as choosing a personality such as thief, mage or attacker,[5] starting the game with a principality.

[4] In a 2003 review published in XtremPC magazine, Juncu Ioana rated Utopia highly, saying that he still loved it to that day.

[5] In 2017, Tyler Harper of Vice stated that "Utopia may not be much to look at", describing it as appearing "slightly better than something a high school student might design in a coding class", but called its gameplay "timeless".