Mainframe Industries is a new studio built by veterans of the MMORPG genre. Earlier this week, the team announced Pax Dei, a medieval-inspired MMORPG currently in production. Developers plan is to provide a player-driven, social sandbox, “an MMO with the community and emergent gameplay at its heart.” Its core design leverages cloud-based platforms, and offers players true cross-platform, cross-save gameplay with both PvE and PvP experiences.
Mainframe offered a peek behind the curtain with its new in-engine trailer.
Pax Dei features include
- Open world sandbox – Players of all types define their goals and challenges. Designed to maximize player interactions and allow different play styles to complement each other, Pax Dei opens up a vast, mysterious, and beautiful playground that players can fill with their stories.
- Cooperative village building -In the relative safety of the Heartlands, players will find the perfect plot to raise their home. Here, life is peaceful, and clans can develop and prosper. Players must work together to grow their villages, engaging with extensive character customization and modular house-building systems. Everything in Pax Dei is produced by human labor and skill, and every player has a role to play and a contribution to make.
- Challenging PVE adventure & PVP combat -Leaving the safety of home to explore the Wilderness, players will encounter legendary creatures, ancient mysteries, and increasingly difficult challenges. Here, they can also choose to fight other players to assert dominance for their clan. The glory, bounty, and secrets they bring back more than justify the risks. But as players soon discover, the further they journey from home, the stranger and more dangerous things become.
- Everyone matters – Skinning a basilisk, choosing between war and peace, picking flowers: it all matters. In a fully player-driven world, all play styles connect and complement each other. Pax Dei welcomes players of every type to join the community and be part of the stories about to take shape.
- Bringing a persistent world alive with Unreal Engine 5
Players are invited to sign up for the alpha on the Pax Dei official site. It can also be wishlisted on Steam.
