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Meridian 59 cover art

Meridian 59

Archetype Interactive · The 3DO Company · 2018-08-28

Steam

IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Dec 15, 1995 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Meridian 59 was the first 3D massively multiplayer game, released in 1996. It's back, and it's free to play!

3
playing now
86%
positive of 390 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Meridian 59 is a 1996 video game developed by Archetype Interactive and published by The 3DO Company. It was the first 3D graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) and one of the longest running original online role-playing games. The development team included John Hanke, who later founded Niantic, Inc. and codeveloped Google Earth and Pokémon Go.

Health check

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  • · Top 40% of 18,324 Indie games in the census by review count.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerMMOFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

PvPRPGIndieMMORPGClassicFantasyAction RPGFree to PlayMassively Multiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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